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31 August 2026

Édouard Balladur, Embattled French Prime Minister, Dies at 97

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Source reporting: New York Times World

Édouard Balladur, Embattled French Prime Minister, Dies at 97

His time in office coincided with France’s fraught role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the corruption scandal known as the Karachi affair.

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