Super Typhoon Rammasun continues to track northwestward towards China’s Hainan Island. The storm, currently packing maximum sustained winds of 135 knots (155 mph), is expected to weaken slightly as it makes landfall on the southeastern corner of Guangdong Province’s Leizhou Peninsula later that evening. Rammasun is then expected to hit …

Tropical Depression 10W has strengthened into a tropical storm early July 18 and is forecast to become a typhoon by July 20. Projections indicate that the system will pass just east of Miyako-jima with maximum sustained winds of 95 knots (109 mph) before moving into the East China Sea early …

European and US aviation authorities have banned overflights of the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine following reports that Malaysia Airlines 17 was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over an area where commercial airliners had been safely flying since the start of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine in April. …