CYBER-INSECURITY

  • London hosts cyberspace security conference
  • GCHQ chief reports ‘disturbing’ cyber-attacks on UK
  • Japan parliament hit by China-based cyberattack
  • U.S.: Russia and China stealing online from U.S. companies

THE SPREAD OF SHARIAH LAW

  • Egypt heading toward Shariah standard
  • Al-Qaeda flag flies high on top of Benghazi courthouse

THE GROWING NUCLEAR THREAT

  • Pakistan’s nuclear weapons vulnerable to theft: report
  • IAEA says foreign expertise has brought Iran to threshold of nuclear capability

THE KINGS OF THE EAST

  • China could play key role in EU rescue
  • China suspect in U.S. satellite interference

NEWS FROM SYRIA

  • McCain raises prospect of military option in Syria
  • France FM: Fall of Assad government in Syria ‘unavoidable’
  • Arab League chief warns of ‘disastrous consequences’ if Syria deal fails
  • Syria’s Assad warns of ‘earthquake’ if West intervenes

NEWS FROM ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST

  • Israel gets ready to unveil David’s Sling
  • Israel test-fires missile as Iran debate rages
  • Iran says united and ‘ready for war’ with Israel
  • Iran cleric: Israel wouldn’t dare pursue its ‘foolish’ military threats
  • Russia: Israeli threat of strikes on Iran ‘a mistake’

THE SANCTITY OF LIFE

  • Slippery slope: ‘loneliness,’ ‘fatigue’ now criteria for euthanasia in Netherlands

9-11

  • Ahmadinejad: U.S. and allies threaten anyone who attacks Holocaust, 9/11
  • Al-Qaeda slams Iran ‘conspiracy theories’

PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD

  • ‘Israel is the West’s creation for Mideast dominance’
  • Ahmadinejad: ‘Palestine will one day be liberated’
  • Ahmadinejad: Mideast conflict can end if immigrant Jews ‘go home’

PSALM 121

  • U.S. Defense Secretary: Israel increasingly isolated in Middle East
  • Gantz: Israel must always be war-ready
  • Lebanese Analyst Warns of Hezbollah’s Impending Strike on Israel
  • Turkish PM: Israel Threat Because of Nuclear Weapons

TERRORIST THREAT

  • Al Qaeda drone attacks on US? Soon it won’t be so far-fetched.
  • Model plane bomb plot tests U.S. antiterrorism strategy at home

THE MIDDLE EAST TINDERBOX

  • Assad Warns to Set Fire on Middle-East in Case of US Attack
  • Syria clergyman threatens West with suicide attacks
  • Iran Says Its New Cruise Missile Can ‘Sink Giant Warships’