Pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded in Lebanon, killing several and wounding thousands – September 17, 2024

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• Lebanese security officials said pagers used by hundreds of Hezbollah members exploded nearly simultaneously in Lebanon today, killing several people and wounding thousands more.
• Russia said it has retaken several villages in its Kursk region after part of the territory was captured by Ukrainian forces in a surprise incursion last month.
• Canada’s Trudeau says there’s ‘more work to do’ after his party suffers another by-election loss.
• Sean “Diddy” Combs was ordered held without bail in federal sex trafficking case
• Community leaders, prisoner rights advocates, and racial justice activists joined Aamonte Hadley’s family members this morning to demand answers and accountability from the San Francisco criminal justice system for her sudden death in San Francisco County Jail earlier this month.

Civil Defense first-responders carry a man who was wounded after his handheld pager exploded, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024.(AP Photo)

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