ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's fate hung by a thread on Friday and desertions from his crumbling centre-right coalition may have already robbed him of the parliamentary numbers he needs to survive.
Berlusconi, caught in the crossfire from European powers and a party revolt at home, agreed at a G20 summit in France to IMF monitoring of economic reforms which he has long promised but failed to implement.
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