Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Monday welcomed at her ministerial office World Bank advisor, Dr. Mounir Hamza, with whom she discussed the latest developments, as well as the important role of media and the modernization of public administrations. Minister Abdel Samad separately met with a delegation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the next few weeks, a flotilla of probes will be blasted into space from launch pads round the world and propelled towards one of the solar system’s most mysterious objects: the planet Mars. Within days of each other, spacecraft built by the USA, by China and by the United Arab ...

Astronomers have spotted strange circular objects, deep in space, through telescopes. The objects “do not seem to correspond to any known type of object”, report the scientists who find them, who do not have any definitive explanation of how they may have formed. So far, four of the objects have ...