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Emirates Bans Pagers, Walkie-Talkies Onboard Flights After Lebanon 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.
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Wayanad To Oslo: Who Is Rinson Jose, Businessman Linked To Pager Blasts?
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.
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Kerala-Born Man's Name Comes Up In Pager Blasts Case. What Probe Reveals
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.
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7 Languages, PhD In Particle Physics: Woman Linked To Exploding Pagers
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.
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A Modern 'Trojan Horse': How Hezbollah Faced 2 Days Of Mayhem In Lebanon
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.
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Mossad Set Up A Shell Company, Sold Rigged Pagers To Hezbollah: Report
Pagers and walkie-talkies, considered outdated modes of communication, were weaponised for a one-of-its-kind attack in Lebanon, resulting in a series of explosions for two consecutive days, killing 32 and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.
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Japan Firm's Walkie-Talkies Used In Lebanon Blasts? Company Says...
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.
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Lebanon Pagers Were Booby-Trapped, Shows Initial Probe: Report
A preliminary investigation has found hundreds of pagers that exploded across Lebanon, killing at least 12 people and wounding up to 2,800, had been booby-trapped, a security official said on Wednesday.
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Down, But Not Out? These Critical Services Still Rely On Pagers
As mobile phones became the world's main communications tool, pagers, also known as beepers because of the sound they make to notify users about incoming messages, were largely rendered obsolete, with demand plunging from their 1990s heyday.
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9 Killed In Lebanon Walkie-Talkie Blasts, What We Know So Far
While Lebanon was still reeling from the shock of yesterday's pager blasts that killed 12 people, the country has been shaken with a fresh series of nationwide walkie-talkie explosions, which have killed nine people so far and has injured hundreds.
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Video Shows Explosion At Funeral Of Hezbollah Member Killed In Pager Blast
A source close to Lebanon's Hezbollah said walkie talkies used by its members exploded in the group's Beirut stronghold, with a live stream on social media showing the chaos that unfolded during the explosion.
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14 Dead, Over 300 Injured As Walkie-Talkies Explode In Hezbollah Units Across Lebanon
14 people have died and more than 300 others wounded as walkie-talkies have blown up at Hezbollah strongholds across Lebanon. This comes a day after pagers exploded across the middle-eastern country, killing twelve people and injuring nearly 3,000.
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Explained: How Pagers Turned Bombs And Why Israel Is Being Blamed
Thousands of pagers exploded within seconds across the Lebanon yesterday in a synchronized attack targeting the US-designated terror group Hezbollah.
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Israel Planted Explosives In Hezbollah's Taiwan-Made Pagers: Report
Israel's Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside 5000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before Tuesday's detonations, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told Reuters.
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"Not Aware, Not Involved": US On Lebanon Pager Blasts
The United States said Tuesday it was not aware in advance and had no involvement in mass explosions of pagers used by Lebanon's Hezbollah, as it urged restraint by Iran in response.
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Emirates Bans Pagers, Walkie-Talkies Onboard Flights After Lebanon 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.
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Wayanad To Oslo: Who Is Rinson Jose, Businessman Linked To Pager Blasts?
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.
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Kerala-Born Man's Name Comes Up In Pager Blasts Case. What Probe Reveals
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.
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7 Languages, PhD In Particle Physics: Woman Linked To Exploding Pagers
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.
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A Modern 'Trojan Horse': How Hezbollah Faced 2 Days Of Mayhem In Lebanon
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.
-
Mossad Set Up A Shell Company, Sold Rigged Pagers To Hezbollah: Report
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.
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Japan Firm's Walkie-Talkies Used In Lebanon Blasts? Company Says...
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.
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Lebanon Pagers Were Booby-Trapped, Shows Initial Probe: Report
A preliminary investigation has found hundreds of pagers that exploded across Lebanon, killing at least 12 people and wounding up to 2,800, had been booby-trapped, a security official said on Wednesday.
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Down, But Not Out? These Critical Services Still Rely On Pagers
As mobile phones became the world's main communications tool, pagers, also known as beepers because of the sound they make to notify users about incoming messages, were largely rendered obsolete, with demand plunging from their 1990s heyday.
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9 Killed In Lebanon Walkie-Talkie Blasts, What We Know So Far
While Lebanon was still reeling from the shock of yesterday's pager blasts that killed 12 people, the country has been shaken with a fresh series of nationwide walkie-talkie explosions, which have killed nine people so far and has injured hundreds.
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Video Shows Explosion At Funeral Of Hezbollah Member Killed In Pager Blast
A source close to Lebanon's Hezbollah said walkie talkies used by its members exploded in the group's Beirut stronghold, with a live stream on social media showing the chaos that unfolded during the explosion.
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14 Dead, Over 300 Injured As Walkie-Talkies Explode In Hezbollah Units Across Lebanon
14 people have died and more than 300 others wounded as walkie-talkies have blown up at Hezbollah strongholds across Lebanon. This comes a day after pagers exploded across the middle-eastern country, killing twelve people and injuring nearly 3,000.
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Explained: How Pagers Turned Bombs And Why Israel Is Being Blamed
Thousands of pagers exploded within seconds across the Lebanon yesterday in a synchronized attack targeting the US-designated terror group Hezbollah.
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Israel Planted Explosives In Hezbollah's Taiwan-Made Pagers: Report
Israel's Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside 5000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before Tuesday's detonations, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told Reuters.
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"Not Aware, Not Involved": US On Lebanon Pager Blasts
The United States said Tuesday it was not aware in advance and had no involvement in mass explosions of pagers used by Lebanon's Hezbollah, as it urged restraint by Iran in response.
