South Sudan conflict claims American life
JUBA, South Sudan — An American man has been killed in civil wartorn South Sudan, the U.S. Embassy said Saturday. South Sudan’s army said he was caught up in fighting between rebels and government forces.
Embassy official Jeremiah Knight confirmed the man’s death to The Associated Press, with no further details. The body was at the military hospital in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, until next of kin were notified.
South Sudan army spokesman Col. Domic Chol Santo told the AP that the man was killed Saturday morning when opposition rebels attacked the town of Kaya on the Ugandan border.
The man was “caught in the fighting” that also left 15 rebels dead, the army spokesman said.
Opposition spokesman William Gatjiath Deng said the man was a journalist who was traveling from Uganda’s capital, Kampala, when South Sudanese forces attacked.
10 killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, India — Four police officials, four paramilitary soldiers and two suspected militants were killed Saturday after anti-India rebels in Kashmir stormed a heavily guarded police camp in the disputed Himalayan region, police said.
Heavily armed gunmen entered the camp in southern Pulwama town early Saturday firing guns and grenades at the sentry, said DirectorGeneral of police S.P. Vaid. In the initial attack, a policeman was killed and four other personnel, including a paramilitary soldier, were wounded.
Mr. Vaid said police and paramilitary soldiers responded to the attack while a reinforcement of soldiers and counterinsurgency police encircled the camp, resulting in the other deaths.
Black Hawk crashes
An American service member remains missing after a Black Hawk helicopter crashed off the coast of Yemen on Friday in what U.S. military officials are calling a training accident.
U.S. forces in the region rescued five other troops who were on board the aircraft, U.S. Central Command said. A search is ongoing for the missing soldier.
Radio silence
CARACAS, Venezuela — Authorities have shut down two radio stations that aired critical coverage of President Nicolas Maduro’s government by refusing to renew their licenses, a broadcast executive announced, as the country staged military exercises in defiance of new U.S. sanctions.
Enza Carbone, president of the country’s Radio Chamber, said late Friday in a statement that the National Telecommunications Commission did not renew the stations’ permits when they expired and ordered them to cease transmitting.
Rhino horn auction
JOHANNESBURG— A rhino breeder in South Africa who held what he called the world’s first legal online auction of rhino horns says there were fewer bidders and sales than expected.
A law firm representing breeder John Hume said Saturday that the two-day auction sets the stage for future sales. Mr. Hume says a legal trade will undercut rhino poaching. Critics believe it will spur demand and tempt poachers to launder horns into the legal trade.