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The businesswoman linked to thousands of deadly pagers which exploded in Lebanon and Syria this week is in hiding, guarded by the Hungarian secret services, her mother has claimed. Ms Bársony-Arcidiacono's mother Beatrix, who lives in Catania, Sicily, told MailOnline her daughter had received unspecified 'threats' and was now 'somewhere safe protected by agents of the Hungarian government'. Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono …

Cartoon published in National Review would ‘incite more hate and violence against our Arab and Muslim communities’. Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has condemned as racist a cartoon that depicts her with a detonating pager, days after thousands of communication devices exploded across Lebanon in attacks blamed on Israel. This racism will incite more hate + violence against our Arab & …

New Delhi: It is a question everyone is asking: How could it have been possible for anyone to trigger explosions in thousands of pagers simultaneously? Sky News Arabia cited sources as saying that the PETN was detonated by remotely raising the batteries’ temperature, but scientists contacted by HT mentioned other possible ways, such as sending a simultaneous message to detonate …

Iran has accused Israel of 'mass murder' after thousands of pagers belonging to Hezbollah fighters exploded, leaving almost 3,000 wounded and 12 dead in Lebanon and Syria. Overnight, as Hezbollah's leadership digested yesterday's surprise attack and began to plot its next move, Israel's Defence Forces launched a blistering aerial assault on a number of targets across southern Lebanon. Meanwhile Russia …

Hezbollah vows to respond after multiple dead and thousands wounded in mass pager explosions

A pager bomb attack that left roughly 2,800 Hezbollah members and civilians injured and nine dead in Lebanon and Syria yesterday was authored by Israel's Mossad spy agency and the IDF, several security sources claim. The Lebanese group earlier this year ordered thousands of pagers to conduct communications after leader Hassan Nasrallah declared smartphones would be more susceptible to cyber …

Hezbollah didn't need any further proof of Israel's formidable intelligence and external operations capabilities, but it got some regardless. The remote detonation of thousands of pagers carried by Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon has not only disabled a key element of the militant group's communications, it has exposed, killed, wounded and terrified its members. But it follows an Israeli assassination of …

Six months ago, Hezbollah's secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah called on the group's members and their families in southern Lebanon to forgo their mobile phones. Exploding pagers wound thousands in Lebanon Photo shows Hundreds of people gather outside a hospital between ambulances Lebanon's Health Ministry says a child is among those killed by a wave of exploding pagers which the militant group …

9 dead, thousands injured in pager blasts in Lebanon

Hundreds Of Pagers Explode Simultaneously In Lebanon, Syria — Nine Dead, Thousands Wounded

Hezbollah is hit by a wave of exploding pagers that killed at least 9 people and injured thousands

Hezbollah accuses Israel as thousands hurt in unusual pager blasts

Hezbollah accuses Israel as thousands hurt in unusual pager blasts toggle caption Hussein Malla/AP At least 8 people have been killed and 2,750 injured — 200 of them critically — by exploding pagers across Lebanon on Tuesday, according to the country's health minister. The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said the pagers belonged to the group’s officials and blamed Israel for …

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