Caretaker Information Minister, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Friday contacted by phone, former Information Minister, Melhem Riachi, offering him condolences on the passing of his mother. Minister Abdel Samad also contacted by phone the family of the late press photographer, Marwan Assaf, offering condolences on his passing. NNA Read More »
Caretaker Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Thursday mourned, in a tweet, Press photographer, Marwan Assaf, who passed away at dawn. Minister Abdel Samad eulogized the late Assaf who has left behind an archive full of thousands of beautiful pictures and a good memory of professionalism, vitality and ... Read More »
Caretaker Information Minister, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, marked via her Twitter account the “World Radio Day” by calling for radio broadcasts to concentrate on moderate speech that unites and does not separate. “Freedom of expression is a right and responsibility in any position we are, without extremes… We must ... Read More »
The United Arab Emirates has made history as the first Arab country to reach Mars. The Emirates Mars mission, named the Hope probe, reached the red planet at 7:42 p.m. Tuesday UAE time, and sent its signal back to Earth just over half an hour later. The ground control team ... Read More »
– The Ministry of Information and the UNESCO Office in Beirut are organizing four virtual training workshops for journalists, media students and media professionals in the Ministry and State-run TV Station, Tele-Liban, on “Journalism during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic” during the months of February and March 2021. A group ... Read More »
Climate change may have played a “key role” in the transmission of the novel coronavirus to humans by driving several species of pathogen-carrying bats into closer contact, research showed on Friday. The virus, which has killed more than two million people and caused unprecedented global disruption, is thought to have ... Read More »
Britain’s Oxford University said on Friday its researchers behind the joint AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine had found it to be effective against the UK virus variant now dominant across the country. The university, which developed the jab with the British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm, said an ongoing assessment of its effectiveness showed that ... Read More »
Caretaker Information Minister, Manal Abdel Samad, said on Friday via her Twitter account that “the vaccine is our only weapon against Covid-19.” “Just like the medical vaccine boosts immunity against the coronavirus, alertness and media awareness are the vaccine that boosts immunity against the pandemic of false information,” Abdel Samad ... Read More »
British researchers are to explore mixing doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines in a world first trial aimed at finding new ways to swiftly reduce coronavirus infections as new mutated variants emerge. While thousands of individual changes have arisen as the virus mutates on replication and evolves into ... Read More »
The Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that 3107 new Coronavirus cases were recorded during the past 24 hours in Lebanon with 82 new deaths. LBCI Read More »
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