Italy ex-premier Berlusconi has leukaemia - source (updated)

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       MILAN, April 6 (Reuters) - Four-times Italian prime
minister Silvio Berlusconi has been diagnosed with leukaemia, a
source close to the matter said on Thursday.
    The source confirmed a report by the Corriere della Sera
daily. 
    The 86-year-old Berlusconi has been treated in intensive
care since Wednesday in a cardiac unit of Milan's San Raffaele
hospital, after suffering breathing problems. 
        The billionaire media tycoon, who made his fortune from
commercial television, has suffered repeated bouts of ill-health
in recent years and had came out of the same hospital just last
week.
  
    

 (Reporting by Milan newsroom, editing by Alvise Armellini)
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