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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan’s Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide the case of six men sentenced to death for raping a woman on orders from a village council, following two conflicting rulings by lower courts in the high-profile case. The men were sentenced to death in 2002 after elders ordered …

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – It’s hard to forget the face of a fallen soldier. Imagine the impression created by 1,483 of them. Portraits of American servicemen and women killed in Iraq (search) go on display Thursday on a 200-foot stretch of wall in Syracuse University’s (search) Shaffer Art Building. The 5-by-7-inch …

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – U.N. troops and ex-soldiers from Haiti’s (search) disbanded army fought two gun battles in the country’s west and center on Sunday, killing at least four people, including two peacekeepers, in the deadliest day for the 10-month-old U.N. mission, officials said. The Sri Lankan and Nepalese soldiers who …