In London, Afghanistan President Karzai charted his road to peace with the Taliban, but it is not clear whether the US will follow it, writes Graham Usher in New York

The plan voiced at the London Afghanistan conference to pay off the Taliban is belied by the plan at the Brussels NATO conference two days earlier to bomb them into submission, notes Eric Walberg

Good-bye Gaddafi, welcome Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria. Gamal Nkrumah assesses the crises besetting the AU

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev's visit to Ankara last month shows that Turkey and Russia are rapidly developing close economic and political ties, notes Eric Walberg

The man who saved Wall Street has the full confidence of Obama, says Anayat Durrani