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CBS News had sought—and received—responses from the Department of Homeland Security, the White House and the State Department, according to people familiar with the matter.
"I want to sort out my family matters by ourselves," said the 30-year-old woman, declining to be named for security reasons.
From Barron's
Given the current resources being devoted to oil tankers, they said the group can work up the information necessary to submit a seizure warrant to the court in a matter of weeks.
He remains in contact with the clinic’s director through “personal text exchanges once or twice a year, often on matters entirely unrelated to the clinic,” she added.
This mattered in a country where 65% of 1.4 billion people live in rural areas and nearly half rely on farming, which generates insufficient income, accounting for just 16% of India's GDP.
From BBC
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