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U.S. orders ex-Honduras president detained pending possible bail application

FILE PHOTO: Honduras' President Juan Orlando Hernandez presents his national statement as a part of the World Leaders' Summit at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain November 1, 2021. Andy Buchanan/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

A U.S. judge on Friday ordered former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez to be detained pending a possible bail application by his lawyers, in Hernandez's initial court appearance on U.S. drug trafficking and weapons charges.

(Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York; Editing by Leslie Adler)

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