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Japan's Icom: Highly Unlikely Wireless Devices That Exploded in Lebanon Are Our Products

A sign with the logo of Japanese walkie-talkie maker Icom (C, top) is displayed at a shop that specializes in wireless devices in Tokyo's Akihabara electric district on September 19, 2024. (AFP)
A sign with the logo of Japanese walkie-talkie maker Icom (C, top) is displayed at a shop that specializes in wireless devices in Tokyo's Akihabara electric district on September 19, 2024. (AFP)
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Japan's Icom: Highly Unlikely Wireless Devices That Exploded in Lebanon Are Our Products

A sign with the logo of Japanese walkie-talkie maker Icom (C, top) is displayed at a shop that specializes in wireless devices in Tokyo's Akihabara electric district on September 19, 2024. (AFP)
A sign with the logo of Japanese walkie-talkie maker Icom (C, top) is displayed at a shop that specializes in wireless devices in Tokyo's Akihabara electric district on September 19, 2024. (AFP)

Japan's Icom said it was highly unlikely that wireless devices that exploded in Lebanon were the company's products.

Pictures of the walkie-talkies used by Lebanese armed group Hezbollah that exploded on Wednesday showed labels reading "ICOM" and "made in Japan".

"In light of multiple pieces of information that have been revealed so for, chances are extremely low that the wireless devices that exploded were our products," Icom said in a statement dated on Friday.

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White House Makes 2,000-Pound Bombs Available to Israel, Undoing Biden’s Pause

An aerial photograph taken by a drone shows Palestinians walking through the destruction caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive, in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP)
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President Donald Trump's White House has instructed the US military to release a hold imposed by the Biden administration on the supply of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, a White House source told Reuters on Saturday.

The move was widely expected. Biden put the hold on the delivery of those bombs due to concern over the impact they could have in Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza.

A ceasefire to halt the war was recently agreed.

The Biden administration's particular concern had been over the use of such large bombs in the city of Rafah, where more than one million Palestinians in Gaza had taken refuge.