The three new cases are people who previously came on planes from Iran. The number of cases of Coronavirus has been increasing in Lebanon ever since the first case was confirmed on February 21st. On Sunday, March 1st, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health announced that 3 other people were ...

The number of people killed worldwide by the coronavirus has exceeded 3,000, as China reported 42 more deaths. More than 90% of the total deaths are in Hubei, the Chinese province where the virus emerged late last year. But there have also been deaths in 10 other countries, including more ...

Move comes after expiry of unilateral deadline Pyongyang set Washington to offer it fresh concessions on sanctions relief   North Korea has fired two unidentified projectiles, the South’s military said, weeks after Pyongyang declared its moratorium on long-range missile tests over. The two devices were over the sea from the ...

EU border agency Frontex on high alert as Turkish president keeps crossings open   Migrants trying to reach Europe have clashed violently with Greek riot police as Turkey claimed more than 76,000 people were now heading for the EU as a result of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s decision to open ...

Lebanon confirmed the country’s third case of coronavirus on Thursday, after a man arriving from Iran on Feb. 24 tested positive, the health ministry said, according to news agency NNA. The patient was taken from his home by the Lebanese Red Cross and into quarantine at a Beirut hospital after ...

The world prepared for a coronavirus pandemic on Friday as hopes the disease could be contained to China vanished and investors dumped equities in expectation of a global recession. Share prices were on track for the worst week since the global financial crisis in 2008 as virus-related disruptions to international ...

US condemns attack which Turkish official says killed 33 of its soldiers, in Ankara’s worst day of the conflict so far   Dozens of Turkish soldiers have been killed in an airstrike in Syria’s Idlib province, in a dramatic escalation in the battle for control of the country’s last opposition ...

Demand for bigger cars drives increase in greenhouse gas emissions, says Which?   New cars sold in the UK produce more carbon dioxide than older models, according to new research that suggests the industry is going backwards in tackling the climate crisis. Cars that reach the latest standards of emissions ...

Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Thursday welcomed a delegation from the Unitarian Druze Community who relayed to her the felicitations of community president, Sheikh Naiim Hassan, upon her assumption of the Information Ministry portfolio. The delegation wished Abdel Samad success in her new task at the ...

Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Thursday said in a joint “Coronavirus awareness” press conference at the Ministry of Education that the media played an unignorable and substantial role in raising awareness. “The golden and wise rule that is best used amid the prevailing circumstances is: No ...