STORY: Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi dies
DATELINE: June 12, 2023
LENGTH: 0:00:23
LOCATION: Rome
CATEGORY: OTHERS

SHOTLIST:
1. various of Silvio Berlusconi on the stage on September 22, 2022

STORYLINE:

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi died Monday at the age of 86 at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, the press office of his political party Forza Italia confirmed.
   
He was admitted to a hospital on Friday for scheduled health check-ups related to his chronic leukemia, according to the hospital.
   
His death was immediately front-page news in Italy and beyond. An official with Forza Italia confirmed the news when contacted by Xinhua, though the official did not provide additional details.
   
Berlusconi suffered from a serious case of COVID-19 in 2020, and had also overcome a heart surgery and prostate cancer.
   
The billionaire media tycoon was a dominant figure in Italian politics for three decades. Berlusconi headed four separate Italian governments as prime minister between 1994 and 2011.
   
Forza Italia, the political party he founded, is a junior partner in the current Italian government headed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Rome.
(XHTV)