Private As the coronavirus cases record double and triple digits with an increase in untraceable cases, the Lebanese government is not ready to impose a full lockdown or to tighten restrictions yet. Lebanon’s public health minister Dr. Hamad Hassan said Tuesday that the country which has so far managed to ...

Two studies offered new hope of a potential vaccine for the novel coronavirus on Monday, seven months after the disease was first identified in China and spread rapidly across the globe. The positive news came as alarm grows over fresh outbreaks of the disease that has killed more than 600,000 ...

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 ...

Scientists have found a strange “pulsar” deep in space that could solve some of the universe’s most fundamental mysteries. The discovery could help us understand how dead stars collide and the universe’s expansion, according to the researchers who found it.  The pulsar – a neutron star “lighthouse” deep in space ...

Private On Monday, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that international students will not be allowed to stay in the United States if the universities they attend exclusively hold online classes due to the Covid-19 pandemic. International students were given two options: transfer to universities giving in-person or ...

Gérard Karsenty was a young scientist trying to make a name for himself in the early 1990s when he first stumbled upon a finding that would go on to transform our understanding of bone, and the role it plays in our body. Karsenty had become interested in osteocalcin, one of ...

Private For more than a decade, the US and EU have accused each other of supporting their home aviation markets with research grants, tax breaks, and other aid. In March 2020, the dispute escalated with Washington imposing higher tariffs up to 15% on European airlines “Airbus” and airplane parts imported ...

  Lebanon’s main  coronavirus hospital has been forced to close operating rooms and delay surgeries amid lengthy power cuts caused by the country’s spiralling economic crisis. Dr Firass Abiad, director-general of the Rafic Hariri University Hospital told The Independent that Lebanon’s largest public healthcare facility was “barely making ends meet” ...

Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, met Monday at her ministry office with a delegation of the Arab Media Network in Tripoli, chaired by Imad Kilani. During the meeting, the delegation invited their host to visit Tripoli and Akkar. Also, Kilani criticized “the uncontrolled weapon threatening the region’s safety and ...

In an interview with “Lebanon TV” on Saturday, Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, stressed that “dialogue has become a necessity,” emphasizing the need to “engage in dialogue though resorting to words, not arms.” Abdel Samad renewed the call of her predecessor, Minister Melhem Riachi, to transform the Ministry ...