Sen. Barack Obama met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Sunday as part of a tour aimed at boosting his foreign policy credentials. In the past, Obama has criticized Karzai for not doing enough to rebuild his war-torn country. Before the meeting, Obama had breakfast with troops at a U.S. base in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The body of a woman found tied up inside an apartment with her uterus cut open has been tentatively identified, the Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Medical Examiner's office told CNN late Saturday. The apartment belonged to another woman who arrived at a hospital with a newborn infant earlier in the week.

A misunderstanding between local police and coalition forces led to an airstrike in southwestern Afghanistan Sunday that left nine police officers dead, a defense ministry official said.

A videotaped statement claiming one of five British hostages captured in Iraq last year has committed suicide is an "abhorrent film" that will only increase the anguish suffered by their families, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Sunday.

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Tropical storm Cristobal was forecast to move "parallel and very close" to the North Carolina coast Sunday morning, but the storm is not expected to make landfall along the eastern U.S. shores.

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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was quoted in a German magazine as saying that he backs a proposal by Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops within 16 months. Al-Maliki's office later said his remarks were "not conveyed accurately."

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