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Sacha Baron Cohen announces current series of ‘Berlusconi’ will be the last

Ironically, as the character is so convincing, many people don’t even realise that Berlusconi is a comedy character, so his creator gets much more recognition for his Ali G, Borat and Brüno personas.

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Posted: Nov 9th, 2011
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Eurobillions ‘traced’ to small black hole near Brussels

TV boffin Professor Brian Cox thinks he’s tracked down the disappearing eurobillions, but too late to help the struggling economies of Greece, Italy and Spain.

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Posted: Oct 21st, 2011
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Silvio Berlusconi to start ‘charging for it’

Veni, Vidi, VeniBerlusconi has announced that if he is to have sex as a privilege of office, he will now be asking to be paid for it, up front, with all proceeds going towards repayment of Italy’s national debt.

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Posted: Sep 21st, 2011
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Italian finance minister to boost market with striptease

BBC business correspondent Richard Stark admitted, ‘I think at this stage it is very difficult for anyone to talk about this without using expressions like ‘pull it off’, ‘single-handedly,’ or ‘at a stroke’, and then sniggering for about twenty minutes.’

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Posted: Aug 6th, 2011
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Berlusconi denies ‘making law’ claims

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has angrily denied rumours that he went into Parliament last month and introduced a proposal which attracted sufficient support from his fellow politicians to become law.

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Posted: Jan 19th, 2011
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