{
  "id": 174307,
  "title": "Peruvian cardinal hails $150m lead poisoning settlement for 1,300 people as a ‘historic milestone’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/peruvian-cardinal-hails-150m-lead-poisoning-settlement-for-1-300",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-05T10:40:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian",
    "slug": "the-guardian",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/05/peruvian-cardinal-historic-milestone-150m-lead-poisoning-settlement-1300-children"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Cardinal Pedro Barreto received death threats and harassment during his almost 20-year campaign against a US mining company’s operations in the Andes A Peruvian cardinal who received a barrage of death threats when he challenged the firm behind a toxic smelter has called a $150m (£111m) out-of-court settlement to more than 1,000 people who were allegedly poisoned by the plant as children “a…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}