A second deadly wave of unprecedented explosions in the strongholds of Lebanon’s Hezbollah left it in disarray on Thursday, hours before a major speech by its beleaguered leader Hassan Nasrallah. The latest batch of device explosions killed 20 people and wounded more than 450 others on Wednesday,

A Taiwanese company has said that it authorized its brand on the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria but that another company based in Budapest manufactured them.

Taiwan-based company Gold Apollo said the AR-924 pagers used in the attack were manufactured and sold by Hungarian company BAC Consulting, which held a license to use Gold Apollo’s brand on the device