Hezbollah Pager Blasts

Dubai's Emirates Airlines has banned passengers from carrying pagers and walkie-talkies on its flights, following last month's attacks on Lebanese group Hezbollah involving communication devices that exploded.

As Israel faces a critical juncture in its history with its war on two fronts - with Hamas and Hezbollah - the country's envoy to India has said all its actions are driven by the objective of rooting out radicalism.

Rinson Jose, an Indian emigrant to Norway, has been linked to the Hezbollah pager blasts in Lebanon, which killed 12 people. Reports have suggested that Norta Global, a Bulgaria-based company owned by him, had a role in supplying the pagers.

The name of an Indian emigrant to Norway has cropped up in the investigation into the pager blasts aimed at Hezbollah operatives, which killed 12 people in Lebanon and left thousands injured.

She speaks seven languages, has a PhD in particle physics, an apartment in Budapest plastered with her own pastel drawings of nudes, and a career that took her around Africa and Europe doing humanitarian work.

It's around 3:30 in the afternoon on September 17. People in Lebanon are going about their daily business, doing the shopping, having a haircut, conducting meetings.

Hezbollah was handing its members new Gold Apollo branded pagers hours before thousands blew up this week, two security sources said, indicating they were confident the devices were safe despite an ongoing sweep of electronic kit to identify threats.

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has acknowledged that his powerful group had suffered an "unprecedented" blow when thousands of operatives' communication devices exploded in attacks it blamed on Israel.

Lebanon has banned walkie-talkies and pagers from flights departing Beirut airport. The decision, announced on Thursday, was made after walkie-talkies and pagers, reportedly used by Hezbollah members, detonated in a deadly attack.

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel of "just punishment" after 32 were killed and over 3,000 were injured in a series of explosions on two consecutive days. Israel has not commented on the attacks.

Pagers and walkie-talkies, considered outdated modes of communication, were weaponised for a one-of-its-kind attack in Lebanon, resulting in a series of explosions for two consecutive days, killing 32 and injuring over 3,000 across the country.

In the second wave of device explosions in as many days, 20 people died and more than 450 were wounded on Wednesday in Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon.

Thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah members detonated across Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday, killing at least 32 people and injuring thousands more.

In Israel's first reaction since thousands of pager and walkie-talkie blasts rocked Lebanon over two days, the defence minister in the Netanyahu's government has announced that the "centre of gravity" of the Middle East conflict is "moving north".

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday warned against the risk of escalation in the Middle East after the detonation of thousands of Hezbollah pagers threatened to derail his latest regional diplomacy push.

Dubai's Emirates Airlines has banned passengers from carrying pagers and walkie-talkies on its flights, following last month's attacks on Lebanese group Hezbollah involving communication devices that exploded.

As Israel faces a critical juncture in its history with its war on two fronts - with Hamas and Hezbollah - the country's envoy to India has said all its actions are driven by the objective of rooting out radicalism.

Rinson Jose, an Indian emigrant to Norway, has been linked to the Hezbollah pager blasts in Lebanon, which killed 12 people. Reports have suggested that Norta Global, a Bulgaria-based company owned by him, had a role in supplying the pagers.

The name of an Indian emigrant to Norway has cropped up in the investigation into the pager blasts aimed at Hezbollah operatives, which killed 12 people in Lebanon and left thousands injured.

She speaks seven languages, has a PhD in particle physics, an apartment in Budapest plastered with her own pastel drawings of nudes, and a career that took her around Africa and Europe doing humanitarian work.

It's around 3:30 in the afternoon on September 17. People in Lebanon are going about their daily business, doing the shopping, having a haircut, conducting meetings.

Hezbollah was handing its members new Gold Apollo branded pagers hours before thousands blew up this week, two security sources said, indicating they were confident the devices were safe despite an ongoing sweep of electronic kit to identify threats.

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has acknowledged that his powerful group had suffered an "unprecedented" blow when thousands of operatives' communication devices exploded in attacks it blamed on Israel.

Lebanon has banned walkie-talkies and pagers from flights departing Beirut airport. The decision, announced on Thursday, was made after walkie-talkies and pagers, reportedly used by Hezbollah members, detonated in a deadly attack.

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel of "just punishment" after 32 were killed and over 3,000 were injured in a series of explosions on two consecutive days. Israel has not commented on the attacks.

Pagers and walkie-talkies, considered outdated modes of communication, were weaponised for a one-of-its-kind attack in Lebanon, resulting in a series of explosions for two consecutive days, killing 32 and injuring over 3,000 across the country.

In the second wave of device explosions in as many days, 20 people died and more than 450 were wounded on Wednesday in Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon.

Thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah members detonated across Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday, killing at least 32 people and injuring thousands more.

In Israel's first reaction since thousands of pager and walkie-talkie blasts rocked Lebanon over two days, the defence minister in the Netanyahu's government has announced that the "centre of gravity" of the Middle East conflict is "moving north".

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday warned against the risk of escalation in the Middle East after the detonation of thousands of Hezbollah pagers threatened to derail his latest regional diplomacy push.