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MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang on Wednesday said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was “seriously considering” granting an absolute pardon to Mary Jane Veloso, the Filipino woman who came close to being executed in Indonesia for a drug trafficking conviction but was later allowed to be moved to a Philippine prison to serve the rest of her

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