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Fri 11 Nov 2008Berlusconi remarks about Obama draw criticism from rivals
GAFFE:IT'S THE way he tells them. Loquacious Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi stirred up a major storm of outraged indignation yesterday by describing US president-elect Barack Obama, as "young, good-looking and suntanned".
The prime minister made the remarks at a press conference in Moscow where he is holding bilateral talks with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.
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