In one of his first meetings after arriving in New Delhi, a senior Indian official leaned over the conference table and expressed deep concern about a Pakistani province on the Afghan border.

NPR: U.S. Balances Relationships with Pakistan, India

Romney has to remain staunchly anti-amnesty and pro-border security but at the same time sound sympathetic and understanding of the desperation of people who often risk their lives crossing a border so they can put food on their family's table.

CNN: How Romney can win over Latino voters

The scale of how much money American banks have at risk in the eurozone comes from a new BIS table of the actual and potential exposure of banks to most economies via cross-border loans and financial transactions.

BBC: Eurozone woes are US woes

While regional peace conferences are always risky enterprises, it's difficult to imagine bringing a cease-fire to the Syrian situation without all parties that border that state or who have armed and financed any faction in the dispute being at the conference table.

CNN: The only glimmer of hope for Syria