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Sewell, who was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams, announced the resignation in an email to department staff Monday afternoon. “While my time here wi Silvio Berlusconi, scandal-scarred former Italian leader, dies at 86 06/12/2023 01:21pm • MILAN (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi, the boastful billionaire media mogul who was Italy's longest-serving premier despite scandals over his sex-fueled parties and allegations of corruption, died Monday. He was 86. Supporters applauded as his body arrived at his villa outside Milan from the city's San R Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's tarnished 3-time premier, dies at 86 06/12/2023 11:33am • ROME (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi cast a spell over Italy — and nearly led it to financial ruin. Many Italians admired the media mogul for his wealth, his charm and his brash, boastful style, and they kept returning him to power, making him the country's longest-serving premier. Nothing seemed US decides to rejoin UNESCO and pay back dues, to counter Chinese influence 06/12/2023 10:36am • PARIS (AP) — UNESCO announced Monday that the United States plans to rejoin the U.N. cultural and scientific agency — and pay more than $600 million in back dues — after a decade-long dispute sparked by the organization’s move to include Palestine as a member. U.S. officials say the decision Insider: Expedia CEO talks about his company, travel demand, high prices, and his compensation 06/12/2023 09:20am • Online travel agency Expedia Group is benefitting as Americans continue to make up for trips they skipped during the worst of the pandemic, and Wall Street expects it to post a solidly profitable 2023 after a money-losing first quarter. The Seattle-based company has been restructuring operations, an Silvio Berlusconi, scandal-scarred ex-Italian leader, dies at 86 06/12/2023 09:02am • MILAN (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi, the boastful billionaire media mogul who was Italy’s longest-serving premier despite scandals over his sex-fueled parties and allegations of corruption, died Monday. He was 86. Berlusconi was admitted to the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan on Friday, his second rec Iraq's parliament approves budget, ending dispute over oil revenue sharing with Kurdish region 06/12/2023 12:56am • BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s parliament belatedly approved a record $152 billion budget for 2023 on Monday, after months of wrangling over the sharing of oil revenue between the central government in Baghdad and the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdish region in the north. 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