Accessibility links

Breaking News

The Rundown - August 24


RFE In The Media
# "The Lede (NYT)" quotes Golnaz Esfandiari on the D.C. earthquake

International Press Review

Libya
# Rebels took over a major Gadhafi compound
# "Beyond NATO’s Libyan Redemption" - Christopher Hill, "Project Syndicate"

Russia
# "The US, Not Gaidar, Killed Yeltsin's Reforms" - Anders Aslund, "Moscow Times"
# "What Russian Empire?" - Dmitri Trenin, "International Herald Tribune"
# Georgian diplomats are being expelled from their Moscow residences

Iran
# Iran has shown the IAEA its advanced nuclear equipment
# A man has "confessed" to killing an Iranian "nuclear scientist"

Pakistan
# "The New York Times" reports on Pakistan's Baloch insurgency
# "Pakistan's Nuclear-Capable Missile" - Ali Ahmed, "The Diplomat"
# "Newsline" reports on the Aamir Liaquat video scandal
# "Karachi's Deeper Problems" - Shaheryar Mirza, "Foreign Policy"

Of Interest
# The case against Dominique Strauss Kahn has been dropped
# Daniel Domscheit-Berg says he shredded 3500 leaked documents
# "Why Western Ways are Still Winning" - Martin Sandbu, "Financial Times"
# A 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit the U.S. east coast
XS
SM
MD
LG