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 ...

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. ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Information Minister, Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Wednesday said via twitter, “A personal deterrent is of more importance than a legal deterrent against fake news. It is of paramount importance to verify the accuracy of news, especially in an environment that welcomes fake news.” It is to note that the ...

The Ministry of Public Health announced on Wednesday the registration of 91 new cases of Coronavirus infections, thus raising the cumulative number of confirmed cases to-date to 2542. 68 cases were locally detected and 23 among returnees. NNA

Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, on Wednesday launched the “Fact Check Lebanon” webpage, during the “Curbing Fake News Forum” held at the Grand Serail, in the presence of representatives of embassies and UN bodies in Lebanon, UNHC Head of Communications, Melissa Fleming, and a panel of Lebanese politicians and ...