WORLD NEWS AT A GLANCE (For publication on Sunday, Oct. 24.) U.N. COMPOUND ATTACKED IN AFGHANISTAN At least two bombers dressed in burqas and another driving a car attacked the U.N. compound in the comparatively peaceful western city of Herat just before noon Saturday, but no one working in the compound was injured, Afghan police officials said. After a gunfight and explosions, the attackers were killed by U.N. security guards and Afghan police, the officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility in a statement from a spokesman, Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, who said the attack was retaliation for the reauthorization of NATO's foreign troop presence in Afghanistan and for a U.N. report that said insurgents had caused the majority of civilian attacks. WIKILEAKS FOUNDER GETS SUPPORT FROM FELLOW WHISTLE-BLOWER Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, and Daniel Ellsberg, the former Pentagon analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers, lashed out together Saturday at the Obama administration's aggressive pursuit of whistle-blowers, including those responsible for the release of almost 400,000 secret documents on the Iraq war. Assange also dismissed what he described as the Pentagon's deliberatelyTIMES PHOTOGRAPHER WOUNDED A New York Times photographer was severely wounded Saturday when he stepped on a mine while on patrol with U.S. soldiers in southern Afghanistan. The photographer, Joao Silva, 44, suffered leg wounds from the bomb, which detonated as he moved through an area near the town of Arghandab. Silva, a longtime contract photographer, was evacuated and taken to Kandahar Airfield, a U.S. and NATO base, where he was receiving treatment. Three U.S. soldiers suffered concussions. Silva has photographed wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, southern Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East, and he has won many awards for his work. 