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The hunt for the firm behind the exploding pagers has led to Taiwan-based Gold Apollo
Taiwan pager maker stunned by link to Lebanon attacks
TAIPEI — The race to find the maker of the pagers that exploded in Lebanon has taken an unexpected turn - towards a Taiwanese company few had heard of until this morning.At least 12 people were killed and nearly 3,000 injured in Tuesday's explosions targeting members of the armed group Hezbollah, which set off a geopolitical storm in the Middle East.Caught in the crisis, Taiwanese firm Gold Apollo's founder Hsu Ching-Kuang flatly denied his company had anything to do with the attacks.Instead, Hsu has said he licensed his trade mark to a company in Hungary called BAC Consulting to use the Gold Apollo name on their own pagers.“You look at the pictures from Lebanon,” Hsu told reporters outside his firm's offices on Wednesday. "They don’t have any mark saying Made in...
September 18, 2024

Taiwan pager maker stunned by link to Lebanon attacks

Civil Defense first-responders carry a wounded man whose handheld pager exploded at al-Zahraa hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024
US denies involvement in Lebanon pager explosion 
WASHINGTON — US military officials have denied involvement in the pager explosions in Lebanon and Syria that have killed at least nine and wounded thousands, and have noted that they are reviewing the situation."I don't have any details to provide on the reports of the the pager blast," the Pentagon press secretary, Air Force Major General Pat Ryder, said in a Tuesday briefing. "I can tell you, you know, to my knowledge, there's no US involvement in this at all.""It's something that we're monitoring," Ryder added.Hundreds of handheld pagers exploded almost simultaneously across Lebanon and in parts of Syria on Tuesday, killing at least nine people, government and Hezbollah officials said.At least 200 of some 2,750 injured were in critical...
September 18, 2024

US denies involvement in Lebanon pager explosion 

Relatives of those injured by the pager blasts gathered at hospitals in Beirut and elsewhere
Hezbollah blames Israel after pager explosions kill nine and injure thousands in Lebanon
BEIRUT — Nine people, including a child, have been killed after handheld pagers used by members of the armed group Hezbollah to communicate exploded across Lebanon, the country’s health minister says.Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon was among 2,800 other people who were wounded by the simultaneous blasts in Beirut and several other regions.Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, said the pagers belonged “to employees of various Hezbollah units and institutions” and confirmed the deaths of eight fighters.The group blamed Israel for what it called “this criminal aggression” and vowed that it would get “just retribution”. The Israeli military declined to comment.Hours before the explosions, Israel’s security cabinet said stopping Hezbollah attacks on the north of the country to...
September 18, 2024

Hezbollah blames Israel after pager explosions kill nine and injure thousands in Lebanon

The EU naval mission said it provided protection for the salvage operation
Disaster averted in Red Sea as burning tanker saved
LONDON — A burning oil tanker that was attacked by Yemen’s Houthi movement has been towed to a safe area in the Red Sea without any spill, an EU naval mission says.The Greek-owned and flagged MV Sounion, carrying about a million barrels of crude, was abandoned by its crew after being hit by missiles on 21 August. Houthi fighters later detonated explosives on board, sparking several fires.A photo released on Monday night showed three vessels belonging to what the EU mission described as “private stakeholders” carrying out the salvage operation, protected by a warship.The Sounion’s destination was not given, but Saudi Arabia has reportedly offered to help the salvagers offload its oil.“The completion of this phase of the salvage operation is the result of a comprehensive approach...
September 17, 2024

Disaster averted in Red Sea as burning tanker saved

People walk near a damaged building in northern Israel after Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones toward Israel
Israel sets new war goal of returning residents to the north
TEL AVIV — Israel has made the safe return of residents to the north of the country an official war goal, the prime minister's office has said.The decision was taken by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet late on Monday.About 60,000 people have been evacuated from northern Israel because of near-daily attacks by Iran-backed Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon.Cross-border fighting escalated on 8 October 2023 - a day after the deadly attack on Israel by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip - when Hezbollah fired at Israeli positions, in solidarity with the Palestinians."The Security Cabinet has updated the objectives of the war to include the following: Returning the residents of the north securely to their homes," a statement from the prime minister's...
September 17, 2024

Israel sets new war goal of returning residents to the north

An Iranian woman (l) without a mandatory headscarf, or hijab, walks in a street in Tehran, Iran next to a woman wearing a headscarf on 15 September
Iran's morality police will not 'bother' women, president says
TEHRAN — Iran's new president has said that morality police will no longer "bother" women over the wearing of the mandatory hijab headscarf, days after the UN warned women were still being violently punished for breaking the strict dress code.Masoud Pezeshkian's comments came on the second anniversary of the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was arrested for allegedly not wearing the hijab properly, sparking nationwide protests.The UN last week said Iran's government had "intensified efforts" since that period to suppress women's rights and crush any last vestiges of activism.But on Monday, Pezeshkian said that the regime's morality police should no longer be confronting women on the street.Pezeshkian, who became...
September 17, 2024

Iran's morality police will not 'bother' women, president says

Sigrid Kaag visited Gaza this month after being tasked with improving the delivery of urgently needed aid
UN Gaza aid chief: World is failing innocent Palestinians
GAZA — The UN’s most senior official overseeing aid and reconstruction in Gaza has told the BBC that the international community is collectively failing innocent civilians in the territory.Sigrid Kaag, who was appointed nine months ago to improve the delivery of urgently needed aid, said a report she is due to make to the UN Security Council on Monday would be “very somber and perhaps dark”.She described the situation in the territory as a “significant catastrophe”.“We're not meeting the needs, let alone creating prospects and hope for the civilians in Gaza.”In a rare interview, the senior UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Action and Reconstruction in Gaza said the systems to deliver assistance — including through multiple land and sea routes into Gaza - were now in...
September 16, 2024

UN Gaza aid chief: World is failing innocent Palestinians

Candles lit in a Star of David shape surround a slogan during a gathering in Tel Aviv on November 21, 2023, calling for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza,
Israeli intelligence commander to resign after being accused of failing to prevent October 7
TEL AVIV — An Israeli intelligence commander, who critics say played a pivotal role in failing to prevent the October 7 attacks, is resigning, Israel’s military told CNN.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Brigadier General Yossi Sariel, who led its 8200 intelligence unit, has informed them he will “conclude his role in the near future.”The country’s public broadcaster Kan and several other media outlets have published excerpts of his resignation letter stating he feels personally responsible for not preventing Hamas from launching the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust.“On October 7th at 06:29 I did not fulfill the task as I expected of myself, those at my command and commanders expected me and the citizens of the state I love so much,” the letter said, according...
September 13, 2024

Israeli intelligence commander to resign after being accused of failing to prevent October 7

Damage on the outskirts of Masyaf this week
Israeli special forces 'raid missile site in Syria'
DAMASCUS — Details are emerging of an apparent raid by Israeli special forces on a "Hezbollah missile production facility" in Syria.Israel's government has said nothing about the operation which, according to US media reports, took place at the beginning of the week.Syrian state media say 18 people were killed on Monday in the raid near the Syrian city of Masyaf — around 25 miles (40km) north of the Lebanese border — and several dozen were injured.According to the New York Times, Israeli special forces descended from helicopters, placed explosives inside the Iranian-built facility and removed sensitive information.American and other officials quoted in the paper paint a picture of a daring operation, designed to destroy the underground military facility.Air strikes were...
September 13, 2024

Israeli special forces 'raid missile site in Syria'

Palestinians check the grounds of a school after an Israeli airstrike in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip, on September 11, 2024
Israeli airstrike on Gaza school kills at least 18, including UN staff
GAZA — At least 18 people, including United Nations staff, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a UN school-turned-shelter in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza on Wednesday, according to the Gaza Civil Defense and hospital officials. At least 44 others were injured, they said.UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian humanitarian relief, said on X that six of its employees were “killed today when two airstrikes hit a school and its surroundings in Nuseirat,” in what is “the highest death toll among our staff in a single incident.”The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that the Israeli Air Force had “conducted a precise strike on terrorists” operating inside the school compound. It claimed the school “was used by Hamas terrorists to plan and execute terrorist attacks against...
September 12, 2024

Israeli airstrike on Gaza school kills at least 18, including UN staff

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