A U.S. Marine who died in a flurry of bullets during a raid near Tucson, Arizona, never fired on the SWAT team, a report by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department shows.

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Report: Marine never fired on officers who fatally shot him

Pakistan hosts its first skiing tournament since 2009 in the Swat Valley – the area previously controlled by the Taliban.

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Ski Swat! Downhill in former Taliban stronghold

The BBC’s Orla Guerin meets survivors of the Pakistan floods in the Swat Valley, who are facing increasingly desperate struggle to find food and supplies, amid fears of a power vacuum in the former Taliban stronghold.

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Flood survivors’ long trek for food