Lebanon FM says pager blasts an omen of wider war

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini meets with Lebanon’s caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib in Beirut, on Sept. 17, 2024. (Reuters)
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Updated 18 September 2024
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Lebanon FM says pager blasts an omen of wider war

  • Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib warned of the incident’s gravity

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s top diplomat on Wednesday said the deadly explosion of hundreds of Hezbollah members’ pagers could be an omen of a wider conflict in the Middle East.
According to Lebanon’s National News Agency, Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib warned of the incident’s gravity, “because it comes after Israeli threats to expand the focus of the war with Lebanon, which would plunge the region into a larger cycle of violence, and signal a wider war.”


US embassy in Kuwait was struck by drones: three diplomats to AFP

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US embassy in Kuwait was struck by drones: three diplomats to AFP

  • Witnesses said embassy had been damaged by a number of drones

KUWAIT: The US embassy in Kuwait was struck by drones, three diplomatic sources told AFP after smoke was seen rising from the diplomatic mission earlier on Monday.

One Kuwait-based diplomat and a Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the embassy had been damaged by a number of drones while a second Kuwait-based diplomat said the embassy building had been struck directly in the attack.

As an AFP correspondent saw smoke rising from the diplomatic mission on Iran’s third day of retaliatory Gulf attacks, the US embassy said that people should not come to the facility, warning of “a continuing threat of missile and UAV (drone) attacks over Kuwait.”