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 ... Read More »
Private During a one-hour speech at a think tank in Washington on Tuesday, FBI chief Christopher Wray threw some of the agency’s harshest accusations about China’s threat to the US. He said that acts of theft and espionage by China’s government represent the “greatest long-term threat to our nation’s information ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
The World Health Organization has acknowledged new evidence that the coronavirus spreads more widely in the air than it had previously suggested, as the Trump administration gave official notification of its withdrawal from the group. A day after a group of scientists said the global body was underplaying the risk of airborne transmission between ... Read More »
The Ministry of Health said on Tuesday that 14 new Coronavirus cases were registered in the country, bringing the total number of cases in Lebanon to 1306. LBCI Read More »
Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, took to Twitter on Tuesday to announce that she had signed the credits earmarked to the state-run Radio Lebanon. “Nobody can silence Radio Lebanon; and nobody can break it,” she tweeted. NNA Read More »
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 ... Read More »
Private According to the authors of a UN report, without proper action to protect wildlife, the number of “zoonotic” diseases which jump from animals to humans, will rise in coming years. Zoonotic diseases like Covid-19, Ebola, SARS, and West Nile virus are caused by the high demand for animal protein ... Read More »
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” ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
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