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The article focuses on Silvio Berlusconi, his enduring presence in Italian politics, and the shock surrounding his departure from the political stage. Topics include Berlusconi's aura of immortality and longevity, the post-Berlusconi era in Italian politics, and his energetic insistence on remaining involved in politics despite his age.

The article focuses on the death of Silvio Berlusconi, marking the end of an influential era in Italian politics. Topics include Berlusconi's impact on Italian politics, society, and culture through his media empire, his complex and polarizing persona, and the potential implications of his death on the political landscape, particularly for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government.

The article reports that Silvio Berlusconi, a media mogul and Italy's former prime minister, has been convicted by a court in Naples, Rome, Italy for bribing a senator to undermine the Italian government of his opponent Romani Prodi.

The article reports that an Italian court has ruled to uphold the acquittal of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in a sex case on March 10, 2015.

The article reports on the splitting of the People of Liberty Party, the center-right political movement of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, on November 16, 2013 led by Berlusconi's ally Angelino Alfano, which is seen to result in increased antigovernment populism.

The article offers world news briefs including the indictment of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in a corruption case, the suicide bombing in Mali which killed two United Nations (UN) peacekeepers, and the release of 15 female detainees in Syria.

The article reports on what would consist of the one-year community service sentence of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi who was convicted of tax fraud.

The article reports that a special panel of the Italian Senators voted for the expulsion of Senator and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi due to tax fraud conviction.

The article reports on the September 2013 resignation of members of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's center-right party from the coalition government and discusses the impact on the Italian government of President Giorgio Napolitano and Prime Minister Enrico Letta.

The article focuses on the perceived political condition of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, which was seen to be nearing its end due to his conviction for tax fraud.

The article reports on the statement of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who was convicted of tax fraud, that his center-right party will continue to support the fragile coalition of the country.

The article reports that the lawmakers from the People of Liberty Party have declared their intention to resign to protest the conviction of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for tax fraud on August 2, 2013.

The article reports that former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was convicted for tax fraud and was sentenced by an appeals court in Milan, Italy with four-year imprisonment and a five-year ban in public office.

The article reports on the appearance of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in television programs and its impact on his political campaign for the 2013 election.

The article reports on the conviction of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of tax fraud. The judgment was the fourth lower-court conviction for Berlusconi who has been sentenced to four years in prison. Berlusconi is also on trial for allegedly paying for sex with an underage prostitute.

The article reports on the decision of former Italy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi not to lead his party in the nation's national elections to replace the overnment of Prime Minister Mario Monti. According to Berlusconi, he will not run for prime minister but he will remain next to younger players who need advice. He adds that he has no plans of leaving politics but wants to lead behind the scenes.

ROME -- A court in Milan threw out the bribery case against former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Saturday, saying that the statute of limitations had expired and continuing his long run of seeming invulnerability to conviction. Mr. Berlusconi, who had denied wrongdoing, had been accused of bribing a British tax lawyer to withhold testimony to protect him. In the trial, which began in March 2007, his lawyers maintained Mr. Berlusconi's innocence even while pressing the statute-of-limitations argument. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROME SOME have taken to calling him simply ''Re Giorgio,'' or King George, for his stately defense of Italian democratic institutions and the outsize albeit behind-the-scenes role he played in the rapid shift from the cinematic government of Silvio Berlusconi to the technocratic one of Mario Monti. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ROME -- With Europe under mounting pressure to act quickly to tackle its debt crisis, the leaders of Italy and Greece moved forcefully on Friday to reinvigorate their governments and show their sincerity about economic austerity. Financial markets rallied on the news. The Italian Senate approved a package of austerity measures, a first step toward easing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from office, while in Athens, the leaders of a new three-party coalition completed details of a national unity government. To speed the process in the Italian Senate, opposition lawmakers refrained from voting, allowing the legislation to pass by a margin of 156 to 12. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ROME -- Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called an urgent cabinet meeting on Monday, a day after German and French leaders urged Italy to quickly pass measures to help reduce pressure on the euro, but the meeting ended with no public decisions on any new efforts to spur the country's economic growth or cut its huge public debt. The silence appeared to be a sign that Mr. Berlusconi's weakening government remained deadlocked over major issues, despite increasing irritation from leaders of the effort to stabilize the euro. At the same time, that sense of waning European patience -- which some Italians took to be verging on derision -- set off anger within Italy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROME -- A court in Milan on Tuesday refused to indict Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in a tax fraud and embezzlement case that focused on the acquisition of TV rights by his family's media company, Mediaset. ''Mr. Berlusconi has been recognized as not involved in the case,'' his lawyer, Niccolo Ghedini, told reporters. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROME -- Thousands of workers took to the streets in Italy in a general strike on Tuesday to protest a package of ever-changing austerity measures, adding to tensions in a crucial week for the future of the euro. The strike placed mounting pressure on the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, which last month grudgingly proposed the austerity package of 45.5 billion euros, or about $64 billion, in exchange for the European Central Bank buying Italian debt to help Italy help fend off a sovereign debt crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROME -- An Italian businessman and his wife were arrested Thursday, accused by Naples prosecutors of extorting money and favors from Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in return for what prosecutors described as ''cooperation'' in an investigation into a high-end prostitution ring in the southern city of Bari. While the prosecutors consider Mr. Berlusconi a victim in the case, the arrests further weaken, and distract, him at a time when he is struggling to rally his fractious center-right coalition around a package of austerity measures expected to go before Parliament next week. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ROME -- As markets continued to hammer Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Wednesday rebutted calls for his resignation, saying Italy's economic fundamentals were strong and pledging that his government was ''up to the task'' of fostering economic growth. ''The country is economically and financially solid. In difficult moments, it knows how to stay together and confront difficulties,'' Mr. Berlusconi said in his first public remarks in a tense month. ''Today more than ever, we need to act all together.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday withdrew a disputed clause of the country's austerity bill that would have allowed one of his family's companies to temporarily avoid a heavy fine in a legal dispute. Under the measure, part of the $68 billion bill, companies could ask that especially high fines be suspended as long as appeals were pending. Fininvest, the Berlusconis' holding company for family assets, was fined $1.09 billion in 2009 for bribery, and a decision by a Milan appeals court is expected this week. Mr. Berlusconi said the measure was ''necessary'' to protect ''companies and citizens.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ROME -- Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi suffered a stinging political defeat on Monday when voters overturned laws passed by his government that would have restarted Italy's nuclear energy program, privatized the water supply and granted him immunity from prosecution. Analysts said the government was not likely to fall immediately over the results, which came from a popular referendum -- the first since 1995 to draw the quorum of 50 percent plus one vote required to overturn the laws. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ROME -- A tabloid tidal wave washed over Italy on Tuesday as newspapers published eye-popping wiretapped conversations from a nightclub dancer who said she had dallied with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as a minor, but whether it would sweep the wily prime minister out to sea was still anyone's guess. The wiretaps emerged days after prosecutors opened an investigation into Mr. Berlusconi on charges that he compensated Moroccan-born Karima el-Mahroug, nicknamed ''Ruby Rubacuori,'' or ''Ruby Heart-Stealer,'' for sex at his villa outside Milan when she was a minor. In wiretaps, Ms. Mahroug said she had been attending parties at Mr. Berlusconi's villa since she was 16. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ROME -- Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi faces investigation in a prostitution case involving an under-age nightclub dancer, prosecutors announced Friday, a day after Italy's highest court weakened a law that had shielded him from prosecution while in office. The office of the Milan prosecutor, Edmondo Bruti Liberati, asserted in a statement that Mr. Berlusconi had illegally compensated the minor for sexual relations during encounters at the prime minister's private villa outside Milan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ROME -- Italy's highest court revoked automatic immunity for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday, a move that could restart three criminal cases against him and further jeopardize his tenuous hold on power. After meeting for five hours, the 15-member Constitutional Court ruled that the prime minister and his cabinet could still be granted temporary immunity in any cases against them, but only if presiding judges agreed to delay hearings while the politicians were in office. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ROME -- Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi narrowly survived two confidence votes on Tuesday, avoiding the collapse of his government but prolonging Italy's political agony. He said he would work to broaden his untenable razor-thin majority, a tall order when he seems at the weakest in his long political career and as investors are eyeing Italy with increasing concern. ''This country doesn't need early elections,'' a tired-looking Mr. Berlusconi said after the voting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ROME -- Over the years, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has marveled Italians with his Houdini-like powers to escape the trickiest political traps and bounce back when all odds were against him. But this time around, as a political crisis deepens and looks poised to bring down the government within weeks, something is notably different in Italy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Italy's Minister for Economic Development, Claudio Scajola, one of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's closest allies, resigned on Tuesday over reports linking him to a questionable real estate deal. Mr. Scajola denied any wrongdoing and said he quit to better defend himself against the allegations that he bought an apartment with money from a businessman who is under investigation in a corruption inquiry. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has released a video message through television broadcasting on September 18, 2013 about his political career after he was convicted for tax fraud charges.

The article reports that the highest court of Italy has upheld former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi a prison term for tax fraud and sending the country onto the road of crisis.

The article reports that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was sentenced with seven-year jail by the court in Milan, Italy on June 24, 2013 for having sex with minor and abusing his office.

ROME -- Italians may have headed to the beach for their sacrosanct summer holidays, but a storm may be brewing offshore. High debt, rising interest rates and low growth are fast eroding Italy's solvency at a time when Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government is weaker and less popular than ever before. On Friday, Mr. Berlusconi, a born salesman who seems constitutionally unable to deliver bad news, gave a surprise news conference with his finance minister, Giulio Tremonti, to say the government would speed up the pace of reforms, among other things aiming to balance its budget by 2013, not 2014 as planned in an austerity package approved by Parliament last month. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ROME -- Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy has said he is laughing off his latest sex scandal, in which prosecutors are investigating whether he compensated a number of attractive young women, including a 17-year-old nicknamed ''Ruby Heart-Stealer,'' for sex. But as this seemingly intractable scandal unfolds, filling media with images of scores of young women in his orbit, Mr. Berlusconi finds for the first time in his long career that a growing number of Italians are not laughing along: women. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROME -- Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi knows a good crisis when he sees one. As he prepares for a crucial no-confidence vote Tuesday that could upend his leadership, he is betting that the financial problems engulfing Europe will provide yet another miraculous salvation for his political career. With the debt crisis that began in Greece skipping across southern Europe, Mr. Berlusconi warned lawmakers Monday that bringing down his government would be ''political folly,'' creating a vacuum at the top that could expose Italy to the unwelcome dynamics of economic contagion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ROME -- In his dealings with American diplomats, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy has often said that he wants his country to be ''the best friend of the United States.'' In cables to Washington, American diplomats added a few caveats. Preparing President Obama for a meeting with Mr. Berlusconi in June 2009, Elizabeth Dibble, the deputy chief of mission at the United States Embassy in Rome, warned that some in the American government regarded the Italian leader as ''feckless, vain and ineffective as a modern European leader.'' Dealing with him, she said, ''requires a careful balance of close consideration.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]