The new Minister of Information, Ziad Al-Makari, on Monday underlined, during the handover ceremony at the Ministry of Information, his commitment to the government’s positions, especially the dissociation policy from Arab-Arab differences, which aims to consolidate Lebanon’s internal unity, on one hand, and to preserve, strengthen and improve our relations ...

A newly-discovered Covid variant that combines mutations from both Omicron and Delta is “the real thing,” scientists have said. Earlier in the year, concern was raised after a lab in Cyprus claimed to have found evidence of a Delta-Omicron recombination event – when the two variants co-infect a patient and exchange genetic material to produce a new viral ...

Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, on Friday received at the Grand Serail the new Minister of Information, Ziad Al Makari. On emerging, Minister Al-Makari said: “I visited Premier Mikati to thank him for his trust,” hoping that he would be up to this trust and responsibility. “The current situation is very difficult and two ...

The newly appointed Information Minister Ziad Makari indicated that the difficult circumstances the country is going through “Require upgrading the ministerial work in order to alleviate the suffering of the Lebanese, as well as prioritizing the national interest over narrow calculations, to the scope of the comprehensive national action”. Minister ...

President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, signed decree No. 8919, (Date: March 10, 2022). This decree appoints Mr. Ziad Al Makari as Information Minister succeeding Minister George Kordahi who had resigned on December 3, 2021. — Presidency Press Office

There’s long been evidence that moderate aerobic exercise (think walking, running, or cycling) are good for your lifelong health and well-being. Research even shows us more active people also tend to live longer, healthier lives with lower rates of disease – including cancers, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. But what about resistance exercise such ...

Brain scans before and after infection showed more loss of gray matter and tissue damage, mostly in areas related to smell, in people who had Covid than in those who did not.   Covid-19 may cause greater loss of gray matter and tissue damage in the brain than naturally occurs ...

… Most common symptoms for the fully vaccinated Researchers in Norway conducted a study interviewing 111 out of 117 guests from a party on 26 November 2021 where there was an Omicron outbreak. Of the group interviewed, 66 had definitive cases of Covid-19 and 15 had possible cases of the ...

Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation this century are far higher than previously thought, doubling in just two decades and continuing to accelerate, according to a study. The world’s forests form an enormous carbon store, holding an estimated 861 gigatons of carbon – equivalent to nearly a century’s worth of annual fossil fuel ...

Reinfections from the sub-variant BA.2 can occur shortly after a person has caught Omicron but are rare, new research suggests. The study, which looked at 47 cases of BA.2 infection that came shortly after an Omicron infection, found that this phenomenon disproportionately affects unvaccinated people. BA.2 is a spin-off from the Omicron ...