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  "id": 3611599,
  "title": "Energy crisis 'drives loan'",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/energy-crisis-drives-loan",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-26T21:54:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Bangkok Post",
    "slug": "bangkok-post",
    "url": "https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/3308539/energy-crisis-drives-loan"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Finance Minister Ekniti Nitithanprapas has defended the government's 400-billion-baht emergency loan decree as essential to economic security as the energy crisis pushes the current-account deficit towards 600 billion baht.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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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."
}