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By Brian Ellsworth and Isabel Woodford MIAMI (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Wednesday ruled that Andrew Fahie, premier of the British Virgin Islands, will not face pre-trial detention while awaiting proceedings on charges that he conspired to launder money and traffic drugs into the United States. Judge Alicia Otazo Reyes of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, contrary to the request of a U.S. prosecutor, sided with Fahie’s attorney Theresa Van Vliet that he will not flee because he has ties to the United States, where his two daughters live. Fahie, 51, was arrested at a …