Berlusconi to sue foreign media for libel

ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is launching legal actions against media in Italy and abroad, including Britain, France and Spain, for libel in their coverage of his private life, his lawyer has said.

His lawyer Niccolo Ghedini said that he and his colleagues abroad had already filed lawsuits against newspapers in Italy, France and Spain and had instructed lawyers in Britain to study possible cases of libel there.

“We have instructed our colleagues to evaluate, according to the laws in their countries, the most serious cases of real, true defamation,” Ghedini said.