AFGHANISTAN
Attacker kills U.S. soldier
A U.S. soldier was killed Sunday afternoon when a man wearing an Afghan security force uniform opened fire on a group of foreign trainers in eastern Afghanistan, officials with the international military coalition said. It was the third such attack in less than a month. The shooting, which occurred in the Sharana district of Paktika province, also most likely wounded at least one other soldier, but details about the extent of the damage were not immediately available. A spokesman for the provincial governor said the attacker had escaped. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
EGYPT
U.S. citizen found dead in cell
A U.S. citizen who had been detained by Egyptian authorities for more than six weeks was found dead in a prison cell Sunday in what some U.S. officials said appeared to be a suicide. Egyptian officials said the American, James Lunn, had hanged himself from the bathroom door in his cell in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia after being detained during a security sweep in the northern Sinai Peninsula in late August. It was unclear what Lunn was doing in the northern Sinai Peninsula at the time of his arrest.
VENEZUELA
U.S.-chartered ship, crew detained
A U.S.-chartered oil exploration ship seized by the Venezuelan navy in Caribbean waters disputed with neighboring Guyana arrived at Venezuela’s Margarita Island on Sunday. Venezuelan authorities said the ship’s 36 crew members, including five U.S. citizens and two Brazilians, would be held on board while an investigation continued. Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry had said Friday that the ship and its crew would be subject to an “inquiry under the International Maritime Law and pursuant to the safeguarding of our sovereignty in maritime areas.”
NEW YORK
Pulitzer winner Hijuelos dead at 62
Oscar Hijuelos, a Cuban-American novelist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1989 novel “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love” and whose work often captured the loss and triumphs of the Cuban immigrant experience, has died. He was 62. Hijuelos died of a heart attack in Manhattan on Saturday while playing tennis, according to his agent, Jennifer Lyons. Among his other works were “Thoughts Without Cigarettes,” “Our House in the Last World,” ”Empress of the Splendid Season” and “Dark Dude.”
NEW MEXICO
Amber Alert canceled for 5 boys
An Amber Alert was canceled Sunday for five teenage boys who authorities reported missing from a rural New Mexico ranch for troubled youth along with others before the weekend, officials said. The boys — ages 13-17 — were physically accounted for Sunday, New Mexico State Police said Sunday evening. Four other teenage boys who also were part of the group already were found safe, and they with their parents Saturday. The operators of the ranch, Scott and Collette Chandler, have filed a lawsuit accusing investigators of targeting the ranch for closure following a fatal car crash involving students.
WASHINGTON
Rowdy party leads to multiple arrests
Hundreds of college-age revelers — thwarted in efforts to continue a large party — threw projectiles at police who responded with pepper spray to disperse them, authorities said. Multiple partiers were arrested during the melee late Saturday and early Sunday in the scenic college town of Bellingham, about 75 miles north of Seattle, police Sgt. Mike Scanlon said. The unrest began as police dispersed the noisy party that had drawn a few hundred people, Scanlon said.
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