RFE/RL In the Media
# The Irish Times discusses Prague in 1989
# The Telegraph blog on Georgia (note first reader comment)
# Akbar Atri & Mariam Memarsadeghi on Iran's democrats
On the RFE/RL Website
# The task ahead for Hamid Karzai
# The anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis
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Sri Lanka: From December "total freedom of movement" for the Tamil in refugee camps
Colombo promises that the resettlement of refugees will be completed by the end of January. As of today at least 160 thousand people still live in camps.
China: Explosion in coal mine: 31 killed and 78 trapped underground
The origin of the blast gas leak. It is yet another incident recorded in a mine. As a rough estimate, in 2009 at least 3 thousand people have died in accidents incidents in various mines due to landslides, floods and explosions.
Int'l Press Review
Afghanistan/Pakistan
# George Will on Hamid Karzai's shortcomings
# David Ignatius on Afghan governance
# The USA Today ed board on the Afghan "mess"
# The Was Post ed board on Karzai as a partner
# Robert Fisk on the America's propping up of Karzai
# Matthew Frankel on Abdullah Abdullah's decision to boycott
# The Newshour interviews James Dobbins and Jim McGovern
Iran
# Mass protests planned in Iran today
# The Revolutionary guards is extending its reach into media
Russia
# Lionel Beehner on the revival of Stalin
Iraq
# The Boston Globe ed board on the maturing of Iraq
U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# Thomas Friedman on buying allies
# Josh Rogin on the State-DoD turf war
# Al Kamen's "In the Loop"
# "Embassy Row" - the Washington Times
From the Blogs
# How did the pundits do on Afghanistan?
# The events of 1989 as a discussion topic



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