Lebanon’s economic crisis has led to a collapse of the local currency and purchasing power, plunging whole segments of society into poverty as exemplified by near-empty fridges in many households. Earlier this year, Lebanon defaulted on its debt and, while the peg to the dollar remains unchanged, the pound has ... Read More »
The Ministry of Health said on Tuesday that 19 new Coronavirus cases were registered in Lebanon. The cases were divided as follows: 12 among the residents and 7 among the returnees. LBCI Read More »
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 ... Read More »
Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, received Tuesday at her ministry office, a delegation of the Cultural Forum of Arab Tribes in Lebanon, chaired by Sheikh Talal Daher. The meeting reportedly touched on the current general situation on the local scene, in addition to the Forum’s activities. NNA Read More »
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, ... Read More »
The Ministry of Health announced on Monday that 16 new Coronavirus cases were registered in Lebanon, bringing the total number of cases to 1603. The new cases were divided as follows: 11 among the residents and 5 cases among the returnees. The ministry said during its daily report that no ... Read More »
Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Mondaywelcomed in her office at the Ministry a delegation from the national committee of tenants, chaired by Antoine Karam. The delegation briefed Minister Abdel Samad on the plight endured by the old tenants, in terms of the “unfair” and “unfeasible” law ... Read More »
Nasa is funding a major new search for alien life elsewhere in the universe. The project – which is being run by scientists at Harvard and the University of Rochester – will scan the skies for signs of life known as technosignatures. Those are indications of alien technologies, which would be revealed to us either on ... Read More »
One of the few upsides of lockdown was that, if a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square, you had a chance of hearing it. City dwellers across the globe delighted in the silence, the freedom from the incessant rumble of traffic, and the joy of birdsong. How cleaner the air seemed, ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
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