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  "id": 4703211,
  "title": "Edouard Balladur, former French prime minister, dies at age 97",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/edouard-balladur-former-french-prime-minister-dies-at-age-97",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-31T19:33:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Le Monde English",
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    "url": "https://www.lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/article/2026/08/31/edouard-balladur-former-french-prime-minister-dies-at-age-97_6757025_15.html"
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  "summary": "Former secretary general of the Elysée under Georges Pompidou, negotiator of the Grenelle Agreements in 1968 and head of François Mitterrand's government in 1993, he failed to win the presidential elections of 1995 against Jacques Chirac. This key figure of France's Fifth Republic has died at the age of 97.",
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        "outlet": "France 24",
        "title": "🔴 Former French prime minister Édouard Balladur dies at 97",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/former-french-prime-minister-edouard-balladur-dies-at-97",
        "published": "2026-08-31T18:47:22.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "The Peninsula Qatar",
        "title": "Minister of Interior meets French Minister of Justice",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/minister-of-interior-meets-french-minister-of-justice",
        "published": "2026-08-31T18:52:53.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Euronews",
        "title": "Tributes pour in for former French PM Edouard Balladur following his death aged 97",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/tributes-pour-in-for-former-french-pm-edouard-balladur-following-his",
        "published": "2026-08-31T20:22:47.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Daily Maverick",
        "title": "Former French PM Balladur dies at 97",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/former-french-pm-balladur-dies-at-97",
        "published": "2026-08-31T20:36:39.000Z"
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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."
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