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, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- It has dominated the center-right of Italian politics for 20 years, but now the wheels appear to be falling off the Forza Italia party, in line with the declining fortunes of its founder, the billionaire media mogul and three-time premier Silvio Berlusconi.
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, and that allowed him to sweep to power just months later, has collapsed from a high of 400,000 to just 60,000. Accounts are in the red, and at the end of 2014 it sacked 50 workers.
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, Forza Italia poll ratings are sinking, falling as low as 15 percent and in danger of being overtaken by the populist, right-wing Northern League, which has surged on an immigrant-bating, anti-Euro ticket.
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, a political pundit at Berlusconi's own conservative newspaper Il Giornale, said that Forza Italia was in crisis and that a fight for the succession was to blame. "The real problem is that the Berlusconi era is ending and that's why the party is exploding," he said.
"It's to be expected. But the slightly strange thing is even the real Berlusconi loyalists such as Verdini are leaving," he added.
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, and its name is Matteo Renzi.
By last week succeeding in electing Sergio Mattarella, a known enemy of Berlusconi, as head of state, Renzi has managed to assuage left-wing rebels in his own party.
Renzi made this sly maneuver after Berlusconi's support enabled him to pass important electoral reforms through the Senate. The Italian prime minister received another boost Friday with news that six centrist senators from the small Civic Choice appeared poised to defect to his Democratic Party.
Political scientist Lorenzo De Sio of Rome's LUISS University said Renzi had played Berlusconi at his own game. "Renzi is an extremely able political operator," he said.
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, which has been badly wounded by a vicious recession. "Everything has been about saving his businesses," said De Sio.
But even that backroom guarantee appears to have been ripped up by Renzi following Friday's news that new media legislation regarding broadcast frequencies will, according to La Repubblica, add 50 million euros (56.58 million U.S. dollars) to the costs of Berlusconi's cash-strapped Mediaset TV empire.
Berlusconi formed Forza Italia and entered politics 21 years ago to avoid prison and save his business from left-wing opponents.
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, there's a sense that things are coming full circle. Among the deluge of self-serving legislation that Berlusconi introduced in the 1990s to protect himself and his companies, the bill that removed the crime of false accounting from the penal code was among the most notorious.
Renzi is now re-introducing this crime. "It will be good for legality, good for encouraging foreign investment. And given who got rid of it, its reintroduction will be very symbolic," said De Sio.
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," he noted.
"A modern democracy will need an effective, new center-right party. But at the moment it's hard to say who will be able to step up and do this." he said.
HANOI， Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Battery failure on Samsung Galaxy Note 7， resulting in recalling and export halt of the product in Vietnam， has had "insignificant impact" on the country's export revenue of cellphones and accessories， said Vietnam's General Statistics Office (GSO) on Friday.
According to a report on GSO's website， the incident affected Samsung's operation in Vietnam， causing profit reduction.
However， its impact on Vietnam's export revenue of cellphones and accessories in October and the first ten months this year remains "insignificant，" said the office.
This is attributed to the fact that Galaxy Note 7 is mostly sold in Vietnam's domestic market while the minority is for exports as well as that Samsung Vietnam has speeded up exports of other cellphones to make up the hole that Note 7 left， said GSO.
In October alone， Vietnam is forecast to see a decrease of 3.9 percent in export revenue of cellphones and accessories against September.
Meanwhile， in the first ten months， the country's export revenue of the item is projected to go up 10.3 percent year-on-year to hit 28.3 billion U.S. dollars.
It is forecast that the Galaxy Note 7 incident will continue to have direct impact on Vietnam's export revenue in 2016 at insignificant extent， leaving the country's export growth to reduce 0.3 percentage points， said GSO.
In total， in October， Vietnam is expected to earn 15.5 billion U.S. dollars from exports， bringing the ten-month export figure to 144.1 billion U.S. dollars， up 7.2 percent year-on-year.
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ISLAMABAD, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Monday marks the completion of six months of Pakistani military's offensive "Operation Zarb-e-Azb " in the country's northwest tribal area of North Waziristan, that has so far killed 1,858 militants and injured many others Only registered users can see links on this board!
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, the army said.
The troops, backed by fighter jets, have destroyed 905 hideouts of suspected militants in various areas of North Waziristan Agency, one of the seven semi-autonomous tribal regions at Pakistan- Afghanistan border, army sources said Monday.
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," an Urdu name for Islamic prophet Muhammad' s sword.
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