Berlusconi's Fininvest ordered to pay 560m euro damages, 9 July 2011 Last updated at 07:57 GMT

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An Italian court has ordered Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's holding company Fininvest to pay 560m euros (£500m) in damages to a rival media group, CIR, over bribery allegations.
The Milan appeals court's ruling was over Fininvest's wrestling of control of publisher Arnoldo Mondadori Editore from CIR in 1991.
The takeover was sanctioned by a judge who was later sentenced for corruption.
Fininvest had appealed an earlier order to pay 750m euros in damages to CIR.
That 2009 ruling found in favour of prosecutors who said Mr Berlusconi was listed as "jointly responsible" for bribing the Rome judge.
The billionaire prime minister this week tried to push through a bill that would have delayed the penalty, but it did not gain the necessary backing from his coalition.
The 74-year-old, Italy's longest-serving post-war prime minister, has appeared in court several times in recent months, accused of corruption and paying an underage prostitute.
Amid the scrutiny, Mr Berlusconi said this week that he would not run for re-election, saying he wanted former justice minister Angelino Alfano to lead the centre-right into the 2013 election.


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