Caretaker Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, on Monday invited to her office at the ministry a delegation including former MP Ghassan Moukhayber, the regional director of the anti-corruption project at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Arkan el-Siblani, and the director of the anti-corruption project at UNDP, Natacha Sarkis, ...

Sea ice minimum has fallen below 4m sq km for the second time in 40 years as the climate crisis rapidly transforms the region   Rising temperatures in the Arctic shrank the ice covering the polar ocean this year to its second-lowest extent in four decades, scientists have announced, in yet another ...

In a statement to the National News Agency on Monday about the continuous Israeli violations of the Lebanese airspace, UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander, Major General Stefano Del Col, said: “In recent days, UNIFIL has recorded a large number of air violations by the IDF. The continued overflights ...

The detection of a gas in the planet’s atmosphere could turn scientists’ gaze to a planet long overlooked in the search for extraterrestrial life. High in the toxic atmosphere of the planet Venus, astronomers on Earth have discovered signs of what might be life. If the discovery is confirmed by ...

Scientists have been able to create an army of tiny, walking robots in a new breakthrough. The objects are the first microscopic robots that are made out of semiconductor components. That allows them to be controlled and forced to walk with standard electronic signals, allowing them to be integrated into more traditional ...

Safety of a prospective COVID-19 vaccine comes “first and foremost”, the World Health Organization’s chief scientist said on Wednesday, as a trial of a leading candidate from AstraZeneca (AZN.L) was paused due to concerns over side effects. Rollout of an effective vaccine is seen as a crucial step in helping ...

Caretaker Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Tuesday welcomed the non-resident representative of Albania’s Prime Minister, Marc Gharib, with whom she discussed general affairs, bilateral relations, as well as the local and regional situation. NNA

“…What you did was grave, unprofessional, and mean,” French President Emmanuel Macron angrily told renowned French journalist Georges Malbrunot, over an article he recently wrote about the French President’s visit to Lebanon. The video of Macron’s heated exchange with the journalist caught fire after the former concluded his 2-day visit ...

Updated version promises ‘more vibrant’ representation of natural features and built environment   Google Maps is getting a visual overhaul worldwide, finally letting users distinguish forest from floodplain, and desert from snowfield, at a glance. Alongside the changes to natural environments, a new set of maps will be rolling out in ...

Britain on Monday urged elderly people and volunteers from Black and Asian minority groups to sign up to a COVID-19 vaccine trial registry to boost efforts to find a working vaccine against the disease that offers protection for higher risk groups. No COVID-19 vaccine candidate has yet been proven effective ...