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PARIS: Former French prime minister Edouard Balladur appeared in court on Tuesday on charges he used kickbacks from 1990s arms deals to help finance a presidential bid, in a case that has already seen six people sentenced to prison terms. Balladur, 91, made no statement to a throng of journalists at the Court of Justice of the Republic, which hears …

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