KABUL (AP) — There's word that 14 Americans have died in two helicopter crashes in Afghanistan. The U.S. military says seven troops and three civilians died when their helicopter went down earlier today. Twelve Americans and 14 Afghans were injured. Four other troops died after two U.S. helicopters collided in mid-air. Two troops were wounded.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama meets with his national security team to discuss Afghanistan later today. It's the sixth major Afghanistan conference in the White House Situation Room. Later, Obama heads to Jacksonville Naval Air Station to visit with troops.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's foreign minister says his country may agree to ship just part of its stockpile of low-enriched uranium abroad for further enrichment. His comments are the first official sign that Tehran may at least partly agree to a U.N.-drafted plan to ship much of Iran's uranium to Russia for further enrichment.

BAGHDAD (AP) — The death toll has risen in Iraq's deadliest bombing in two years. Police and hospital officials now say 155 people were killed in yesterday's explosions in the heart of downtown Baghdad. More than 500 people have been injured.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The United Nations World Food Program finds the number of "urgently hungry" people in the world has reached its highest ever — 1.02 billion. That's after 200 million people joined the ranks of the hungry in the past two years.