Apple pledges to support Beirut relief efforts after massive explosion

After the worst single explosion to strike Lebanon — a country whose history is filled with destruction from a 1975-1990 civil war, conflicts with Israel, and periodic terrorist attacks — Apple has pledged to help the stricken area.
A 2,750-ton cargo of ammonium nitrate, a component of fertilizer that is potentially explosive, had been stored at the port since it was confiscated from a Russian-owned Moldovan-flagged cargo ship, the MV Rhosus in 2013, and on Tuesday it is believed to