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Former Italy PM Berlusconi diagnosed with leukaemia: Source
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.
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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.
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