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Italy ex-premier Berlusconi has leukaemia – source
2023.04.06 02:22
© Reuters. Forza Italia leader and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi attends a session of the upper house of parliament ahead of a confidence vote for the new government, in Rome, Italy, October 26, 2022. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane
MILAN (Reuters) – Four-times Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been diagnosed with leukaemia, a source close to the matter said on Thursday.
The source confirmed a report by the Corriere della Sera daily.
The 86-year-old Berlusconi has been treated in intensive care since Wednesday in a cardiac unit of Milan’s San Raffaele hospital, after suffering breathing problems.
The billionaire media tycoon, who made his fortune from commercial television, has suffered repeated bouts of ill-health in recent years and had came out of the same hospital just last week.
