Information Minister Ziad Al-Makari visited the French “Clinique Du Levant” Hsopital in Sin El-Fil this afternoon, where he was received by its Board Chairman & Director General, Dr. Antoine Maalouf, and French Deputy of Lebanese origin, MP Elie Abboud, who briefed him on the medical and health functions performed by the hospital amidst ...

Minister of Information, Ziad Al-Makary, on Friday welcomed at his ministerial office Director of the UNESCO Regional Office in Beirut, Costanza Farina, with whom he discussed a number of cooperation projects between “UNESCO” and the Ministry of Information. For his part, Minister Al-Makary stressed that the media’s freedom of expression ...

Information Minister, Ziad al-Makary, on Friday welcomed at his ministerial office Russian Ambassador to Lebanon, Alexander Rudakov, with whom he discussed Lebanese-Russian bilateral relations. In the wake of the meeting, Ambassador Rudakov said that talks with Al-Makary also touched on the best means to bolster  cooperation within the media sector. ...

Almost three times as many people have died as a result of COVID-19 as the official data show, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report, the most comprehensive look at the true global toll of the pandemic so far. There were 14.9 million excess deaths associated with COVID-19 ...

The discovery of ice ridges in Greenland similar to those found on Europa suggest water from the Jovian moon’s subsurface ocean could lurk near the surface.   In the late 1970s, Nasa’s two Voyager spacecraft flew by Jupiter’s moon Europa and found strong evidence that a global liquid water ocean lurks beneath the moon’s icy shell. ...

Information Minister Ziad Al-Makari, underlined today the “deep historical ties linking both Zgharta and Dinniyeh together,” and called on citizens of these regions to “vote for this historical relation through which we are fortified in the face of challenges.” He added that “the Ministry of Information’s priority is safeguarding public freedoms,” ...

Researchers have rejuvenated a 53-year-old woman’s skin cells so they are the equivalent of a 23-year-old’s. The scientists in Cambridge believe that they can do the same thing with other tissues in the body. The eventual aim is to develop treatments for age-related diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and ...

Information Minister, Ziad al-Makary, on Wednesday toured Tele Liban building in Beirut in the company of its director, Vivian Lebbos. The Minister inspected the workflow in the state-run TV station’s departments and got a briefing on the status of media professionals and technicians working for Tele Liban. “What we are ...

Minister of Information, Ziad Makary, visited the Zgharta Media Network offices, where he was received by Msgr Estfan Frangieh.   Speaking to the Network’s radio director Robert Frangieh, Makary stressed that he does not seek to establish personal relations in the Ministry, but rather to work for the sake of ...

Two new studies are reporting on an ongoing long COVID research project investigating the persistent effects of COVID-19 on cognition in the months after acute disease. The University of Cambridge-led research found many long COVID patients are experiencing significant and measurable memory or concentration impairments even after mild illness. “Long ...