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Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi touches his eyes prior to a end-of-the year press conference in Rome, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010. Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has conceded that early elections may be necessary if his slim majority in parliament is unworkable and that he would decide in January. In an end-of-the-year press conference Thursday, Berlusconi also said that if his term finishes on schedule in 2013 he’d rather sit it out and let other conservative leaders run. The 74-year-old Berlusconi said the job was too great a sacrifice and that he was convinced there were new conservative leaders who were “absolutely capable of becoming premier.” (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)