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LONDON – Seven British soldiers will stand trial on charges of murder for the killing of an Iraqi civilian in 2003, Britain’s attorney general said Thursday. Lord Goldsmith (search) said the soldiers would face court-martial in connection with the death of Nadhem Abdullah (search) on May 11, 2003, in Al …

WASHINGTON – Pat Mitchell (search), the Public Broadcasting Service (search) chief under fire for spending public money on a cartoon show that also featured a real-life lesbian couple, will step down when her contract expires in June 2006. Mitchell, the nonprofit network’s fifth president and chief executive officer, also faced …

SEOUL, South Korea – The United States would dispatch 690,000 troops and 2,000 warplanes if war breaks out on the Korean peninsula (search), according to a South Korean defense policy paper released Friday. The brief revealed South Korean efforts to redefine its 50-year-old stalemate with the communist North and readjust …