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Preparations are underway on Duomo square in Milan, as Italy prepares to bid farewell to former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who died on Monday, aged 86. Thousands of people are expected to attend the billionaire media mogul's state funeral which will be held in the city's Gothic Duomo cathedral and shown live on big screens on the square. IMAGES
A significant police presence stands outside San Raffaele hospital in Milan after former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi died aged 86, his spokeperson confirmed to AFP Monday. The billionaire media mogul, who reshaped Italy's political and cultural landscape while fending off multiple legal and sex scandals, was admitted to the hospital on Friday for what aides said were pre-planned tests related to his leukemia. IMAGES
Images show Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arriving in Kyiv to preside over a G7 virtual meeting on Ukraine on the second anniversary of the Russian invasion, the Italian government announced. IMAGES
The coffin carrying the body of former Chilean President Sebastian Pinera arrives at the Former National Congress in Santiago, where he will lie in state until the main funeral on Friday. Pinera died when an helicopter he was piloting crashed into a lake. IMAGES
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrives at the AI Safety Summit where she is greeted by UK counterpart Rishi Sunak before the pair hold a bilateral meeting. The two-day summit at Bletchley Park, north of London, kicked off on 1 November with the publication of an agreement signed by 28 countries and the European Union acknowledging the "need for international action." IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).