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The Rundown - October 21


RFE/RL In The Media
# "The Christian Science Monitor" cites RFE/RL reporting from the Serbia-Kosovo border
# The "Moscow Times" cites RFE/RL reporting on student arrests at a Dmitry Medvedev event

International Press Review

Libya
# Muammar Gadhafi is dead
# A 2006 article on Gadhafi's Libya from "The New Yorker"
# A sitcom in the 80s predicted Gadhafi would die in 2011

Afghanistan/Pakistan
# "Double Games People Play" - Rahimullah Yusufzai, "Newsline"
# Taliban leader Maulvi Fazlullah has vowed war in Pakistan
# "Afghanistan, Pakistan & Kashmir" - Teresita & Howard Schaffer, "Foreign Policy"
# "Spiegel" on aid in Afghanistan

Russia
# Michael Bohm on human rights in Russia
# Franz Cede compares the Hapsburg dynasty and the Soviet Union

Iran
# "Tehran's Domestic Discontents" - Ray Takeyh, "International Herald Tribune"

Of Interest
# Walter Isaacson will discuss Steve Jobs on "60 Minutes"
# There's a new service to help the stars avoid dictator parties
# Turkey struck at PKK sites in Iraq
# Cell phones seem not to cause cancer
# Twitter may get a big investment from Saudi Arabia

U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# Hillary Clinton warned Pakistan over supporting militants
# President Obama's jobs bill stalled in the Senate
# "The New York Times" on women running for office
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