Tranda Wecker, the twins' biological mother, then appointed a child law specialist to represent her at the UK hearings.

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Federal law dictates that, unless they are unfit, biological parents have custody of their children.

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This is because the current legal and policy regimes under relevant international legal instruments, and especially the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the Convention on Biological Diversity, do not specifically deal with the conservation and sustainable and equitable use of the biodiversity of the deep seabed.

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Hussein Kamel Hassan Majeed, a son-in-law of Saddam Hussein, defected and revealed that Hussein was making biological weapons at a center where inspectors had found nothing.

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While important penalties are mandated by the Senate bill for persons involved in trafficking in technologies related to chemical, biological, and ballistic missile weapons, the sanctions would only apply to violations actually occurring after the legislation becomes law.

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If it comes into law, we will have to work very hard to make sure that families and children remain important and biological families will have to be shored up in other ways.

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