Italy set for early election, Berlusconi ahead
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Italy will hold an election by mid-April  which could return media magnate Silvio Berlusconi to power  after political parties failed to agree on an interim  government.
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Italy's government crisis enters a decisive week with a snap election and a return to power of Silvio Berlusconi's centre right looking ever more likely.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi on Wednesday faces a crunch vote of confidence in his leadership, a week after he was forced to resign over a humiliating foreign policy defeat in parliament.
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Poland's parliament looks set to call early elections on Friday, pitting the ruling conservative Kaczynski brothers against a pro-business opposition party.
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Italy was on high alert as a group linked to Al-Qaeda reportedly threatened to attack, singling out Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as a target, after the expiry of a deadline for Rome to pull its troops out of Iraq.
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Italians will go to the polls on April 13 and 14, officials announced Wednesday, heralding a probable return to power by conservative media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi decided Thursday to go ahead with a vote of confidence before the Senate, the ANSA news agency reported after the embattled centre-left leader met for a second time with President Giorgio Napolitano.
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Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi admitted Tuesday that he has asked President Giorgio Napolitano to call an election as soon as possible.
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Rome- Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi was due to address the Senate later on Tuesday ahead of a do-or-die vote of confidence taking place in parliament's upper house on Wednesday.Comment
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Italy's president will announce who he has chosen to lead a new government on Saturday after crisis talks.
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Millions of workers across Italy are expected to take part in a general strike against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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Romano Prodi, given a second chance to prove that he can govern Italy, scrambled for support on Sunday ahead of a vote of confidence this week that he must win to stay on as prime minister.
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Italy's president dissolved parliament on  Wednesday and the caretaker government prepared to call a snap  election, likely in mid-April, that could mark a return to  power of media magnate Silvio Berlusconi.
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ROME - Italy's president will decide on Saturday who should now lead the government, leaving acting Prime Minister Romano Prodi in suspense over whether he will be asked to return to power or ...Comment
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Italy's PM Romano Prodi will face a vote of confidence in his coalition in the Senate on Wednesday.
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Italy's Silvio Berlusconi underwent more  hospital checks on Tuesday after fainting at a rally this  weekend, but the ex-prime minister planned to get straight back  into the political fray after his discharge due on Wednesday.
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ROME - Italy's Romano Prodi is scrambling for support ahead of a vote of confidence this week which he must win to stay on as prime minister.Prodi resigned last week after suffering an ...Comment