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    "byline": "Deborah Cole",
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    "excerpt": "Friedrich Merz called it a \u201cdisaster\u201d, and that was even before the full scale of the catastrophe for himself and his conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) came into view after Sunday\u2019s state elections.",
    "lang": null,
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    "title": "Latest German election humiliation puts Merz on borrowed time as CDU unrest grows"
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