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Silvio Berlusconi

Berlusconi resigns, crowds in Rome celebrate

ROME (Reuters) – Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigned yesterday, ending one of the most scandal-plagued eras in recent Italian history amid the jeers of thousands of protesters gathered in central Rome to celebrate his departure.

Huge blast kills 17 at Iran military base

TEHRAN (Reuters) – A massive explosion at a military arms depot near the Iranian capital Tehran yesterday killed 17 Revolutionary Guards and wounded 15, a spokesman for the elite fighting force told the semi-official Fars news agency.

Lucas Papademos

Papademos sworn in to lead party-packed Greek cabinet

ATHENS, (Reuters) – Technocrat Prime Minister  Lucas Papademos took office on Friday to save Greece from  bankruptcy, heading a coalition cabinet filled with many of the  same politicians who led the nation into crisis and pushed the  euro zone to the brink of collapse.

Cuba seeks Brazil aid to boost farm production

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Cuba is seeking a credit of  $200 million from Brazil to import agricultural machinery and  technology in hopes of increasing food output and reducing its  reliance on imports, a Brazilian official said yesterday.

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ROME – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is expected  to resign on Saturday, making way for an emergency government  and ending one of the most scandal-plagued eras in Italy’s  post-war history.

Sean Quinn

Ireland’s former richest man declared bankrupt

BELFAST,  (Reuters) – Ireland’s former richest  man, Sean Quinn, was declared bankrupt yesterday after having  bet the family fortune on the shares of Ireland’s most  notoriously profligate bank just before it collapsed.

Papademos named PM to claw Greece out of crisis

ATHENS, (Reuters) – Greece named banker Lucas  Papademos as head of a new crisis government on Thursday, ending  the country’s chaotic search for a leader to save it from  default, bankruptcy and expulsion from the euro zone.   

‘Storm of epic proportions’ hits Alaska coast

ANCHORAGE, Alaska,  (Reuters) – A storm forecast to be  one of the worst on record in Alaska lashed the state’s western  coastline yesterday, tearing roofs off buildings and pushing  water and debris into communities, authorities said.

Lucas Papademos

Deal on Greek premier collapses, Papademos re-emerges

(Reuters) – A deal on forming a Greek national unity  government collapsed as the country headed towards an economic  abyss and revived early today the chances of former  European Central Bank vice president Lucas Papademos heading the  coalition.

Malaria finding points to possible new vaccine

LONDON, (Reuters) – A vaccine or new drugs against  malaria could be developed,    British scientists said, after  they made a critical discovery about the way the most deadly  species of malaria parasite invades human red blood cells.

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