Middle East & Africa | Supply-chain sabotage
A pager-bomb attack causes disarray for Hizbullah
Thousands of devices explode in an apparent Israeli strike

|Dubai
Editor’s note (September 18th): More explosions took place in Lebanon a day after the initial round of blasts, this time affecting walkie-talkies used by Hizbullah.
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