Meanwhile the Italian newspaper Il Giornale is starting a campaign to bring Ali to the Galeazzi Orthopaedic Institute in Milan.

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Prosecutors brought the wiretap case after a transcript of a phone conversation intercepted by the authorities was published in the newspaper Il Giornale, owned by Mr Berlusconi's brother Paolo.

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It's the daily newspaper Il Giornale.

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