Steven Lee Myers New York Times

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  Planned UN Resolution Takes Aim at ISIS Funding

  A special meeting of the Security Council will try to bolster efforts to cut off revenues that the Islamic State raises in its territory.

• Against odds, path opens up for US-Taliban talks

  Over the last year, Marc Grossman, a veteran but low-key diplomat, led a small team of American officials who met secretly from Doha, Qatar, to Munich with a shadowy representative of Afghanistan's Taliban leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, in hopes of starting peace talks.

• Clinton urges countries not to stifle online voices

  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other international leaders urged countries and private businesses on Thursday to fight increasing efforts to restrict access to the Internet by repressive governments and even some democratic ones.

• In fog of war, rift widens between US and Pakistan

  The NATO air attack that killed at least two dozen Pakistani soldiers over the weekend reflected a fundamental truth about American-Pakistani relations when it comes to securing the unruly border with Afghanistan: the tactics of war can easily undercut the broader strategy that leaders of both countries say they share.

• Hillary Clinton issues blunt warning to Pakistan

  Setting the stage for a high-level diplomatic showdown, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton bluntly warned Pakistan's leaders on Thursday that they would face serious consequences if they continued to tolerate safe havens for extremist organisations that have crossed the border to attack Americans and Afghans.

• 'Good day for America', says Obama

  Calling it a "good day for America," President Obama said on Monday that the death of Osama bin Laden had made the world "a better place," as new details emerged about the overnight raid and firefight in Pakistan that killed him. (Watch: Obama on Osama's death)"The world is safer," Mr. Obama said as he appeared at a White House ceremony bestowing ...

• Nine-month plan is set for crippled Japan nuclear plant

  Tokyo Electric Power Company said Sunday that it hopes to bring the reactors at its hobbled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into a stable state known as cold shutdown within the next nine months, during which the three damaged reactor buildings at the facility will be covered.The goals are part of a two-part plan that represents Tokyo Electri...

• Allied leaders agree that Gaddafi must be removed

  Leaders of the four dozen countries and international organizations meeting here on Tuesday made it clear that the NATO-led military operation in Libya would end only with the removal of Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi, even though that is not the stated aim of the United Nations resolution authorizing it. "When the fighting is over, we will need to put ri...

• Obama takes hard line with Libya after shift by Clinton

  In a Paris hotel room on Monday night, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton found herself juggling the inconsistencies of American foreign policy in a turbulent Middle East. She criticized the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates for sending troops to quash protests in Bahrain even as she pressed him to send planes to intervene in Liby...

• Clinton to meet with Libyan rebels

  US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Thursday that she would meet with Libyan rebel leaders in the United States and during travels next week to France, Tunisia and Egypt.Mrs Clinton did not identify the Libyan rebel leaders she intended to meet.American officials have reached out to members of the rebel's provisional council in eas...