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Marwa Ahmad rarely leaves her run-down house in the Syrian city of Raqqa.

Vivienne Westwood, an influential fashion maverick who played a key role in the punk movement, died Thursday at age 81.

An outlawed Pakistani Islamist political group freed 11 policemen almost a day after taking them hostage in the eastern city of Lahore amid violent clashes with security forces, the country’s interior minister said on Monday.