“We have no problems with the electricity file, but we will put it quietly as we will put up the apple file,” Information Minister Melhem al-Riyashi said ahead of a cabinet meeting at the Beit Din palace. Read More »
U.S. research: Agriculture a culprit in global warming
Agriculture has contributed nearly as much to climate change as deforestation by intensifying global warming, according to U.S. research that has quantified the amount of carbon taken from the soil by farming. Some 133 billion tons of carbon have been removed from the top two meters of the earth’s soil ... Read More »
U.S. study revives argument over mammogram screening
Yearly mammograms starting at age 40 would prevent the most deaths from breast cancer, U.S. researchers reported in a challenge to more conservative recommendations that take into account both the harms and the benefits of screening. The study, led by Dr. Elizabeth Arleo, a radiologist specializing in mammography at Weill ... Read More »
IDAL report: Only Lebanon sees positive FDI growth in MENA
Head of IDAL Nabil Itani said Tuesday that Lebanon was the only country in the region which recorded a positive growth in foreign direct investments in 2016 despite the political vacuum at that time. He projected that FDI is to grow by 15 percent in 2017.“We were the only country ... Read More »
Hariri hails Army gains as ‘biggest vote of confidence’ in state
Prime Minister Saad Hariri Tuesday hailed the Lebanese Army’s quick gains against Daesh (ISIS) on the northeastern border region as the “biggest vote of confidence in the role of the government, the state and the Army.” He also said the key to halting the waste of public funds is by ... Read More »
Al-Riyashi discussed the topic of Mount Transfiguration in Hermon
Minister of Information Melhem Al-Riyashi received today, at his office in the ministry, the head of Rachaya Development Committee Lilian Malouli. After the meeting, Maalouli confirmed that she had presented with Minister Al-Riyashi “the subject of the Transfiguration on Mount Hermon, which is the focus of several development projects in ... Read More »
A training workshop for media professionals under the auspices of Riyashi
The United Nations Information Center in Beirut is organizing a training workshop for media professionals on “Sustainable Development Goals”, sponsored by Information Minister Melhem Riachi, on Thursday 7 and Friday, 8 September 2017, at the SmallVille Hotel, Badaro, Beirut. The workshop aims at informing journalists about these global goals and ... Read More »
President Aoun signed the both laws of chain and its financed
President of the Republic Michel Aoun has signed a legal and a series of salaries and salaries and issued them according to the constitutional principles. Read More »
Refugee Library: over 1,000 books… a different sort of hunger
The brightly colored minivan that pulls into Athens’ food market, drawing a group of refugees around it, is not carrying something edible. The contents – hundreds of books – are there to satisfy a different sort of hunger. For tens of thousands of refugees stuck in Greece for the past ... Read More »
10 US sailors missing in ship collision
Ten U.S. sailors are missing after a collision between the USS John S. McCain and a tanker early Monday east of Singapore, the second accident involving a ship from the Navy’s 7th Fleet in the Pacific in two months. The Navy said five sailors were hurt in the collision between ... Read More »