Two potential vaccines designed to tackle Covid-19 in animals have proved successful in laboratory tests, scientists say. Researchers at the Vaccine Group, which works with the University of Plymouth, said the development marks a significant step forward in eliminating Sars-CoV-2 in existing animal sources.  Such vaccines could also be used to ensure that cats ...

Prime Minister, Dr. Hassan Diab chaired today at the Grand Serail a Cabinet session. Minister of Information Manal Abdel Samad delivered the following statement after the session: At the outset of the session, PM Diab deplored “the absence of some forces from the national dialogue that the President of the ...

Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Wednesday welcomed representatives of digital media portals in West Bekaa, Zahle, and Baalbek-Hermel regions. During the meeting, Minister Abdel Samad confirmed that she echoed the voice of the media in the government, stressing that she prefers “to work in silence.” She ...

Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Wednesday welcomed President of the Belarusian Alumni Association in Lebanon, Engineer Marwan Al-Zuhairi, with whom she discussed media cooperation. “Delegated by the Belarusian embassy in Damascus, I have met with Minister Abdel Samad to negotiate a cooperation agreement between the Lebanese ...

Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Wednesday regretted via twitter that some of the Lebanese citizens have lost trust in the current government due to the malpractices of governments in previous tenures. “Within the past few months, my late work hours have prevented me from going to ...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) on Tuesday said it expects global trade to drop around 18.5% in the second quarter of 2020, adding that restrictions being gradually lifted to contain the Covid-19 suggest that trade may have possibly bottomed out in the second quarter of 2020. The volume of merchandise ...

Minister of Industry, Dr. Imad Hoballah, and Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Monday inaugurated a media gathering at the Industrial Research Institute, titled “Media production is a need for industrial production”. The MoC signature event, which aims to activate cooperation between the industrial and media sectors, ...

Event will be visible across a narrow band from Congo-Brazzaville to southern China Skywatchers along a narrow band from west Africa to the Arabian peninsula, India and southern China will witness the most dramatic “ring of fire” solar eclipse in years on Sunday. Annular eclipses occur when the moon passes between Earth ...

The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, with Thursday’s 150,000 new cases the highest in a single day and nearly half of those in the Americas, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. “The world is in a new and dangerous phase,” Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing from WHO ...

Experts call for legislation and trade deals worldwide to encourage green recovery   Pandemics such as coronavirus are the result of humanity’s destruction of nature, according to leaders at the UN, WHO and WWF International, and the world has been ignoring this stark reality for decades. The illegal and unsustainable ...