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US moves to drop smuggling charges against Harvard scientist

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BOSTON, ‌Nov 3 (Reuters) - US ​prosecutors moved on Tuesday to ⁠drop criminal charges against a Russian-born scientist ​at Harvard University ‌accused of smuggling frog embryos into the United States ⁠after she ⁠argued the Trump administration had singled her out for prosecution.

Federal ‌prosecutors in Boston said ⁠in a ‌court filing they ​were dismissing the charges against Kseniia Petrova ‌after a ​federal judge ⁠cleared the way for ‌her ⁠to obtain evidence supporting her claim that she ​was being ‌vindictively prosecuted.

(Reporting by Nate ⁠Raymond in ​Boston; Editing by ​Muralikumar Anantharaman)

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