Middle East
Pager explosions target Hezbollah
Militant group Hezbollah promised to retaliate against Israel after accusing it of detonating pagers across Lebanon, killing at least nine people and wounding nearly 3000 others who included fighters and Iran’s envoy to Beirut. Lebanese Information Minister Ziad Makary condemned the late afternoon detonation of the pagers – handheld devices that Hezbollah and others in Lebanon use to send messages – as an “Israeli aggression”. Hezbollah said Israel would receive “its fair punishment” for the blasts.