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The Rundown - August 23


RFE In The Media
# Andrew Sullivan links to Fred Petrossians' coverage of reactions to Libya in Iran

International Press Review

MENA
# Saif Gadhafi appeared in public last night
# "Libya Now Needs Boots on the Ground" - Richard Haass, "Financial Times"
# A truce between Israel and Hamas is holding
# Christopher Preble on the debate over western intervention in Libya
# "The New York Times" with the latest on Syria

Russia
# The mayor of a Moscow suburb was murdered
# "Why Georgia Has Friends & Russia Doesn't" - Alexei Pankin, "Moscow Times"
# "Russia's Curious Campaign" - Paul J. Saunders, "National Interest"
# Sunny Lee on Kim Jong-Il's Russia trip

Pakistan
# Farieha Aziz on violence in Karachi

Afghanistan
# Villagers in Helmand Province stoned a Taliban leader to death

Of Interest
# "The Washington Post" reports on U.S. international broadcasting to Pakistan
# The BBC reporter arrested in Tajikistan claims he was tortured
# "Klout and the Evolution of Digital Diplomacy" - Brian Fung, "The Washington Post"
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