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US Secretary of Defence, Lloyd Austin, has postponed a planned trip next week to Israel amid the escalation on the Israeli-Lebanese border, a source familiar with the issue said on Thursday, Reuters reports.

The source did not give a reason for the postponement.

The trip would have come at a time of heightened tensions in the region after attacks that blew up Hezbollah radios and pagers, which Lebanon and Hezbollah have blamed on Israel.

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