Premier Silvio Berlusconi indicated Saturday he was ready to resign after long denying electoral defeat, saying a Cabinet meeting expected to make his departure official was scheduled for Tuesday.

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Even though Italy’s top court certified center-left former premier Romano Prodi’s razor-thin victory in the lower house of parliament after April 9-10 elections, Berlusconi, a billionaire media mogul, denied his loss and vowed to keep up his fight through legal challenges.

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