Algeria requests emergency UNSC session on Lebanon

Slovenia, the UNSC's term president, announced on Wednesday that Algeria's request for an emergency meeting has been accepted. The emergency session is scheduled for Friday afternoon. Earlier on Wednesday, a new wave of wireless communications device explosions in Lebanon killed at least nine people and injured more than 300 others, the Lebanese Health Ministry said. In the last two days, such incidents have killed 21 people and injured over 3,000 others. In a phone call, Algerian Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmed Attaf extended the country's condolences to his Lebanese counterpart, Abdallah Bou Habib, for the victims of what he called “the Israeli aggression.”  Attaf further expressed Algeria's "complete solidarity with Lebanon amid the tragic and difficult circumstances that it is witnessing."