Hurricane Beryl pummels Caribbean, strengthens to Category 5

Bridgetown/St. George: Hurricane Beryl strengthened to a maximum Category 5 storm on Monday night after battering several islands in the southeastern Caribbean, bringing heavy rain and damaging winds. Beryl is now the earliest Category 5 Atlantic storm on record and has developed into a “potentially catastrophic” hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 160 miles per … Read more

Red Sea disruptions to continue into Q3, Maersk CEO says

BEIRUT: Several independent lawmakers, reformists and opposition parties called on Monday for Lebanon’s transitional government to declare a state of emergency in southern Lebanon and hand over control to the army. They asked the parliament to adopt “a road map to de-escalate and spare Lebanon from a war that the Lebanese do not want and … Read more