The U.S. says it will burn $9.7 million of birth control. Its fate is still unclear

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A view of a warehouse of Kuehne+Nagel in Geel, Belgium, which houses U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million. The U.S. State Department has stated that the stocks would be sent to France to be destroyed.

Questions about their fate swirled after the government's July deadline for destruction came and went. Then came a false report they'd been incinerated. Aid groups say it's not too late to save them.

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