Private The UK’s foreign secretary Dominic Raab is expected to suspend the country’s extradition treaty with Hong Kong on Monday over China’s moves against the city-state. The extradition treaty means that, if someone in Hong Kong is suspected of a crime in the UK, then the British authorities can ask ... Read More »
British scientists analysing data from a widely-used COVID-19 symptom-tracking app have found there are six distinct types of the disease, each distinguished by a cluster of symptoms. A King’s College London team found that the six types also correlated with levels of severity of infection, and with the likelihood of ... Read More »
The Ministry of Health issued on Sunday its daily report on Coronavirus in which it said that 84 new infections were registered in the country. The ministry added that 65 cases were locally transmitted and 19 cases were recorded among the returnees. LBCI Read More »
Solar Orbiter images shot from between Venus and Mercury orbits show ‘campfires’ in corona The closest ever images of the sun reveal its surface is speckled with “campfires”, miniature versions of the dramatic solar flares visible from Earth. The observations, beamed back from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, which is ... Read More »
A rocket carrying the unmanned probe, known as Al-Amal in Arabic, joins China and US in race to red planet The first Arab space mission to Mars has blasted off aboard a rocket from Japan, with its unmanned probe – called Al-Amal, or Hope – successfully separating about an hour after liftoff. ... Read More »
The Ministry of Health issued on Saturday its daily report on Coronavirus in which it said that 75 new infection were registered in the country. The ministry added that 55 cases were locally transmitted and 20 cases were recorded among the returnees. NNA Read More »
The Ministry of Health announced on Friday that 101 new Coronavirus cases were registered in the country. The new cases were distributed as follows: 80 cases among the residents and 21 among the returnees. The ministry noted in its daily report that no deaths among the Coronavirus patients were registered ... Read More »
Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, visited this Thursday Minister of Industry, Imad Hoballah, to discuss the prospects of forming a working group for media production, “to render Lebanon a center for industry-specialized media, through agreements to be made with the participation of the private sector,” as stated by Abdel ... Read More »
China has approved an early-stage trial in humans of German firm BioNTech’s experimental coronavirus vaccine, its local partner Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical said on Thursday. The potential vaccine is one of the two most advanced candidates that BioNTech is working on with its partner Pfizer and they received “fast track” status this week from the U.S. Food and Drug ... Read More »
Exclusive: best analysis to date indicates significant increases in infections, hospital admissions and death There is “compelling” evidence that air pollution significantly increases coronavirus infections, hospital admissions and deaths, according to the most detailed and comprehensive analysis to date. The research indicates that a small, single-unit increase in people’s ... Read More »
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