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Berlusconi resigns as Italian PM

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigns, in the midst of an acute debt crisis, making way for a caretaker government.


Barack Obama speaks at Apec summit in Hawaii. Photo: 12 November 2011Obama outlines Pacific trade plan

US President Barack Obama announces the broad outlines of a plan to create a trans-Pacific free trade zone at an Apec summit in Hawaii.

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