Flamboyant former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi dead aged 86

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Silvio Berlusconi, the flamboyant media mogul whose reign as Italy’s longest-serving postwar prime minister was plagued by sex scandals and allegations of corruption, has died, according to Corriere della Sera. He was 86. Berlusconi was hospitalised in Milan on Friday just three weeks after being released from a previous treatment. He had a history of heart ailments, including a malfunctioning valve that surgeons replaced in 2016, and was hospitalised for a lung infection in 2020 after contracting COVID-19. Berlusconi was one of the most influential figures in Italian politics of the last three decades. He built a television empire in...