NEWS FROM ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST

• Hamas leader: Palestine will not be liberated through fake peace, only through Jihad
• UN pushes to declare Israeli occupation illegal, may seek ICJ opinion
• Assessment: Hezbollah will use Iranian drones against Israel in next conflict
• Iran testing drones on Ukrainian civilians for future use on Israel
• Warily eyeing Kyiv strike, Israel said to fear it will be next target of Iran drones
• Iranian Teen Dies After Security Forces Beat Her for Refusing to Sing at Regime Rally
• Crowds gather at Mahsa Amini’s graveside, call for death of Khamenei
• Taliban Accused of Executing 27 ‘Rebel’ Prisoners

BRAVE NEW WORLD

• Children Who Identify as Transgender Likely Going Through a ‘Phase’, Says UK Health Service

CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH

• Survey: More Than 1/3 of Senior Pastors Believe Being a ‘Good Person’ Can Earn You Salvation
• Christian Photographer Beats City in Court: Won’t Be Forced to Work Same-Sex Weddings
• Franklin Graham Preaches the Gospel to over 17,000 in First-Ever Evangelistic Event in Mongolia

NEVER AGAIN?

• Did the Holocaust happen? Iran’s Raisi says research needed

NUCLEAR ARMAGEDDON

• ‘This is not a bluff’: Putin threatens to use nuclear weapons in a dark new speech
• Medvedev: Strategic nuclear weapons can be used to defend annexed Ukrainian territory
• North Korea enshrines nuclear weapons policies into law

THE NEW WORLD ORDER

• China and Russia building ‘more just’ world order: Beijing
• China’s Xi, Russia’s Putin challenge world order at regional summit
• Putin, Xi hail ‘great power’ ties at talks defying West
• Iran says will pursue membership of Russia, China-led bloc

THE KINGS OF THE EAST

• Xi: China’s most powerful leader since Mao
• China’s Communist Party to hold Congress set to cement Xi’s rule
• India unveils first homemade aircraft carrier, with eye on China
• Chinese moves on Taiwan rattle remote Japanese island
• Biden says ‘yes,’ US forces would help defend Taiwan; China cries foul

NEWS FROM ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST

• Arab sources: ‘This is a third intifada’
• Hamas official: Terror attacks will lead Israel to retreat from Judea and Samaria
• Iran’s Guards commander says any country involved in Israel’s aggression will ‘pay its price’
• Iran unveils missile it says can strike all of Middle East and parts of Europe
• Nasrallah warns Hezbollah missiles are ‘locked on’ offshore Israeli gas field
• Iran announces suicide drones it says can hit Tel Aviv and Haifa
• Iran Declares Itself ‘Invincible’ While Demanding ‘Stronger Guarantees’ for Nuclear Deal
• Mossad head: Israel will defend itself, deal or no deal, Iran not immune

A BRAVE NEW WORLD

• Boston Children’s Hospital: Children Know They Are Trans ‘the Minute They Were Born’
• Episcopal Church Comes Out in Support of Sex Changes ‘at All Ages’

CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH

• Extremists chop off Christian convert’s hand in Uganda weeks after he left Islam
• Terrorists Kill More Than 20 Christians in Taraba State, Nigeria
• Christian Persecution Worsens in Communist Nicaragua with Arrests, Silencing of Catholic Media
• ‘Rushdie insulted Islam’: Justifying attack, Iran faults writer for his own stabbing

NUCLEAR ARMAGEDDON

• Study: Billions would die of hunger after nuclear war between U.S., Russia
• Russian navy should be equipped with tactical nukes, says Russian scientist
• Putin: Russia soon to deploy new naval hypersonic missiles
• Mossad chief says signing nuclear deal bodes strategic disaster

NEWS FROM ISRAEL

• Islamic Jihad: ‘We’ll scatter the heads and bodies of Zionists on the mountaintops’
• Senior Islamic Jihad official: We will bomb the center of Israel
• Top Islamic Jihad official: We are preparing for the next round of fighting against Israel
• Islamic Jihad leader to Israel: It’s either you or us in this land
• Erdogan: Despite reconciliation with Israel, we still support the ‘Palestinian cause’