▶ Commander sorry for hospital attack

The new commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan apologized Tuesday to the people of Kunduz for the deadly attack on a hospital in the city last year, which killed 42 people. U.S. army Gen. John Nicholson travelled to the northern city to meet local leaders and relatives of those who died in the Oct. 3 attack. A U.S. air force AC-130 gunship attacked the hospital run by medical charity Doctors Without Borders in what Nicholson called a “horrible tragedy.” More than a dozen U.S. military personnel have been disciplined for mistakes that led to the sustained attack.