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Middle East: On the Brink
After exploding pagers and assassinations, is the region on the verge of devastating war?
It鈥檚 a crisis that has already featured exploding pagers, assassinations, and a massive ballistic missile strike. What for months has been a simmering border crisis between Israel and the forces of Hezbollah in neighbouring Lebanon has escalated into a much more deadly conflict. More than a thousand people are dead and hundreds of thousands are displaced. Now, the crisis threatens to engulf nearby countries and spark a catastrophic regional war.