RUMBLINGS IN IRAN

• IRAN TO BAN AIRLINES NOT USING THE TERM ‘PERSIAN GULF’
• AHMADINEJAD: ARAB WORLD WILL USHER IN NEW MIDEAST WITHOUT ZIONISTS
• IRAN’S AHMADINEJAD CALLS SEPT 11 “BIG FABRICATION”
• IRAN MAKING NEW SMART BOMBS
• ‘IRAN DEVELOPING MASSIVE LAUNCH SITE’
• AHMADINEJAD WARNS ISRAEL AGAINST ANY MILITARY MOVE
• AHMADINEJAD MANEUVERING HIZBULLAH AND ISRAEL INTO WAR?
• PERES CALLS FOR ‘TOTAL’ WORLD ISOLATION OF AHMADINEJAD

CALLING FOR JIHAD

• IRAN’S KHAMENEI URGES JIHAD UNITY
• GADDAFI URGES JIHAD AGAINST SWITZERLAND

CYBER THREATS

• FBI DIRECTOR WARNS OF GROWING CYBER THREAT
• U.S. LIFTS LID ON TOP-SECRET PLAN FOR INTERNET SECURITY
• US OFFICIALS REHEARSE FENDING OFF CYBERATTACK
• CYBERSECURITY BILL TO GIVE PRESIDENT NEW EMERGENCY POWERS

THE EU SUPERSTATE

• GREECE LOSES EU VOTING POWER IN BLOW TO SOVEREIGNTY

CYBER WARFARE

• IN DIGITAL COMBAT, U.S. FINDS NO EASY DETERRENT
• SENIOR GENERAL SAYS US NEEDS TO MOVE FASTER ON CYBER DEFENSE
• US ‘TROUBLED’ BY CHINA CYBERATTACKS
• CHINA ACCUSES U.S. OF USING CYBERWARFARE
• BAIDU HACKED BY ‘IRANIAN CYBER ARMY’

NEWS FROM RUSSIA

• RUSSIA DIVERSIFIES INTO CANADIAN DOLLARS
• RUSSIA RESPONDS TO U.S. MISSILE PLANS FOR POLAND
• RUSSIA, US AT ODDS OVER FUTURE ASTEROID HIT

TERRORIST THREAT

• AL-QAEDA HAS TRAINED FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBERS TO ATTACK WEST, US OFFICIALS WARN
• ATTEMPTED TERROR ATTACK LIKELY, INTELLIGENCE CHIEFS WARN
• ‘BIN LADEN TAPE’ WARNS OBAMA OF MORE ATTACKS
• AL-QAEDA IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA URGES JIHAD

NEWS FROM ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST

• ‘WHAT HAPPENED IN HAITI WILL HAPPEN IN ISRAEL’
• ABBAS: PALESTINIANS WILL ACCEPT ONLY JERUSALEM AS OUR CAPITAL
• U.S. OFFICIAL: HEZBOLLAH ARMS FLOW MAY SIGNAL PLANS FOR WAR WITH ISRAEL
• IDF ARRESTS TWO SUSPECTS PLOTTING TO ATTACK ISRAEL FOR HAMAS
• SYRIA VOWS TO RESPOND TO ANY ISRAELI ‘AGGRESSION’

RUMBLINGS FROM IRAN

• SUPREME LEADER CLAIMS IRAN REMAINS UNITED AGAINST ‘OUTSIDE’ THREAT
• IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER WARNS THAT THE WEST CAN’T SAVE ISRAEL
• IRAN ATOMIC CHIEF: 10 ENRICHMENT PLANTS PLANNED FOR NEXT YEAR
• IRAN: U.S. IS FIGHTING A ‘PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR’ IN THE GULF

KNOWLEDGE INCREASED

• CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANT HOPES LIFTED
• PIG LUNGS IN HUMAN TRANSPLANTS MOVE STEP CLOSER

TERRORIST THREAT

• U.S. TO REVIEW SECURITY PROCEDURES AFTER DETROIT AIRLINE INCIDENT
• ATTEMPTED TERRORIST ATTACK ON AIRLINER SPARKS NEW CONCERNS ABOUT AL-QAIDA
• INVESTIGATORS: NORTHWEST BOMB PLOT PLANNED BY AL QAEDA IN YEMEN
• ‘HUNDREDS OF AL-QAEDA MILITANTS PLANNING ATTACKS FROM YEMEN’
• OBAMA LINKS CHRISTMAS DAY TERRORIST ATTEMPT TO AL-QAIDA
• REPORTS: TALIBAN SUICIDE BOMBING HIT CIA NERVE CENTER
• EXPERTS CONCERNED U.S. HOMEGROWN TERRORISM ON THE RISE

NEWS FROM RUSSIA

• RUSSIA ‘PLANS TO STOP ASTEROID’
• RUSSIA TO DEVELOP NEW NUCLEAR MISSILES AND LAUNCHERS
• PUTIN: RUSSIA MUST COUNTER U.S. MISSILE DEFENCES