Caretaker Minister of Information, Ziad Makary, on Friday honored the Publisher of “As-Safir” newspaper, Talal Salman, at the newspaper’s building in Hamra, and presented him with an honorary shield as a token of appreciation from the Ministry of Information for his pioneering role in free written media, as part of ...

Advanced artificial intelligence could pose a catastrophic risk to humanity and wipe out entire civilisations, a new study warns. AI could be the potential “Great Filter” answer to the Fermi paradox, with the potential to wipe out intelligent life in the universe before it can make contact with others, suggested the yet-to-be peer-reviewed study, posted ...

Caretaker Minister of Information, Ziad Al-Makary, mourned the passing of Lebanese writer George Ibrahim Yammine, where he wrote on Twitter that on this sad day the Lebanese shed two tears, one for his painful passing and another because he died while in exile…”Our consolation is that his intellectual and literary impact will ...

Caretaker Minister of Information, Ziad Makary inspected a workshop on sorting, preserving and digitizing the photo archives of the “National News Agency” and the Information Ministry’s Lebanese Studies and Publications Directorate, which started two weeks ago and is run by the French National Audiovisual Institute Expert, Veronique Clavier. The Director of the ...

Scientists are set to embark on one of the most comprehensive studies to date into how digital technologies impact the mental health of young people. As digitisation of information continues, and with the pandemic helping to accelerate the change, the always-on world of social media and rapid news cycles has adversely ...

A blood test that can detect more than 50 different types of cancer could speed up diagnosis, a new study suggests. The Galleri test was able to detect signs of cancer in 323 out of the 6,238 people who had visited their GP with suspected symptoms, in England or Wales, the study showed.  Of those 323 patients, 244 ...

Caretaker Minister of Information, Ziad Makary, said, in an interview within a report prepared by the German Press Agency (DPA) about the Syrian refugees in Lebanon: “Concerning the (Syrian refugees) deportations, we are just applying the Lebanese laws that all the countries are applying. As you know we have more ...

Caretaker Minister of Information, Ziad Makary, confirmed in an interview with the “Voice of All Lebanon” radio station that Lebanon was heading towards electing a new president, expecting the eventual arrival of Marada Party Leader, Sleiman Franjieh, to Baabda. In response to a question about the chances of holding an ...

Caretaker Minister of Information, Ziad Al-Makary, indicated that “the Beirut document, which is the fruit of our cooperation with everyone, takes us to different media according to new standards.” He added: “We are in constant contact with all media institutions, and we cooperate with international associations from whose expertise, relations ...

  The global loss of wildlife is “significantly more alarming” than previously thought, according to a new study that found almost half the planet’s species are experiencing rapid population declines. Humans have already wiped out huge numbers of species and pushed many more to the brink – with some scientists saying we are entering a “sixth mass ...