An Italian court Thursday (1 August) upheld former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's prison sentence marking the first definitive conviction for the 76-year old politician in over 20 trials spanning almost two decades.
The court of cassation, Italy's highest court and against which Berlusconi cannot appeal, decided after a three-day hearing to uphold a prison term for tax fraud.
The original sentence of four years was handed out by two lower courts last year and automatically com...
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