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Hot weather until Friday... then?

Al Jadeed: The Estimates Department of the Meteorological Service at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation expected tomorrow’s weather to be mostly clear to partly cloudy, with dense fog over the highlands and a slight drop in temperatures. Drizzle is expected to fall intermittently starting in the afternoon over the northern highlands…

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From Hermel to Shmistar… what did the Regie seize?

Al Jadeed: From Hermel to Shmistar… what did the Regie seize? The Lebanese Tobacco and Tobacco Products Monopoly Administration, “the Regie,” announced in a statement that “its anti-smuggling unit seized quantities of smuggled electronic cigarettes, counterfeit hookah tobacco, and smuggled and counterfeit cigarettes, as a result of raids it carried out in Hermel and al-Qasr…

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Turkish interest in supplying Lebanon with electricity and gas and in exploration

Al Jadeed: Turkish interest in supplying Lebanon with electricity and gas and in exploration. Energy and Water Minister Joe Saddi visited Ankara, where he held a working meeting with his Turkish counterpart, Alparslan Bayraktar, attended by his team and the Lebanese delegation, which included Energy Sector Regulatory Authority member Engineer Daniel Jeha and Lebanon’s ambassador to Turkey, Munir…

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Following a sudden health issue... Yassin Jaber taken to hospital

Al Jadeed: Following a sudden health issue... Yassin Jaber taken to hospital. The media office at the Ministry of Finance revealed in a statement that Finance Minister Yassin Jaber had suffered a health issue that required him to be admitted to hospital for some routine tests. The results were reassuring, and on the advice of doctors, he will take a period…

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A hot start to September… and here are the details for the coming days

Al Jadeed: A hot start to September… and here are the details for the coming days. Typical summer weather will prevail over Lebanon and the eastern Mediterranean basin over the next two days, with temperatures above seasonal averages and high humidity along the coast, increasing the feeling of heat until Friday, when it turns moderate…

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Preparations for the storms have begun… Preventive work on roads and storm drains

Al Jadeed: Preparations for the storms have begun… Preventive work on roads and storm drains. Minister of Public Works and Transport Fayez Rasamny held an expanded meeting with the ministry’s contractors, in the presence of officials and those concerned at the ministry, as part of early preparations for the winter season and efforts to raise the level of readiness across various…

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September weather begins with clouds... what about temperatures?

Al Jadeed: September weather begins with clouds... what about temperatures? The Estimates Department at the Meteorological Service of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation forecast that tomorrow’s weather will be partly cloudy to cloudy, with fog over the highlands and a rise in temperatures, especially inland and above the mountains. It said in…

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Cars defy floods! (Video)

Al Jadeed: A video documented scenes of cars crossing a road inundated by floodwaters in a village in Guangxi Province…

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After the “August storm”... what will the weather be like at the start of September?

Al Jadeed: After the “August storm”... what will the weather be like at the start of September? The Forecasting Department of the Meteorological Service at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation expected tomorrow’s weather to be partly cloudy to cloudy, with a further rise in temperatures, especially over the mountains and inland. Fog will form over the highlands…

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An August storm tests road preparedness… What did the rain reveal?

Al Jadeed: An August storm tests road preparedness… What did the rain reveal? The Ministry of Public Works and Transport said in a statement that it had monitored “on the ground the heavy rainstorm that Lebanon experienced yesterday evening, and its teams were deployed at all the black spots considered most prone to water accumulating on the roads located…

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After the low-pressure system moves away... what does the weather have in store for Lebanon?

Al Jadeed: After the low-pressure system moves away... what does the weather have in store for Lebanon? The Estimates Department at the Meteorological Service of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation expects tomorrow’s weather to be partly cloudy to cloudy, with a further rise in temperatures, especially in the mountains and inland. Fog will form over the highlands…

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In pictures—Heavy rainfall hits Akkar and damages property

Al Jadeed: In pictures—Heavy rainfall hits Akkar and damages property. Al Jadeed’s correspondent reported that the heavy rains accompanying the low-pressure system that hit Lebanon starting yesterday led to the collapse of a retaining wall in the Al-Ain neighborhood of the Akkar town of Bebbene, causing water to enter one of the homes and damage to…

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The Islamic University clarifies: No displacement of displaced people

Al Jadeed: The head of the Services Department at the university, Ali Musheik, said in a call with Al Jadeed that the university had received and sheltered the displaced people for about seven months, and is currently working on arrangements to ensure their continued stay while classes resume. He explained that the plan calls for allocating separate floors and entrances…

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In Pictures – Launch of an Awareness Campaign to Prevent Drowning from Ramlet al-Baida Beach

Al Jadeed: The following statement was issued by the Media and Public Relations Department of the Lebanese Directorate General of Civil Defense: As part of the ongoing cooperation between the Directorate General of Civil Defense and the World Health Organization (World Health Organization – WHO) – Lebanon Office, it launched from Ramlet al-Baida Beach – Beirut…

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Winter arrives in August... Rain starts in the afternoon!

Al Jadeed: Winter arrives in August... Rain starts in the afternoon! Lebanon and the eastern Mediterranean basin will gradually be affected by a moderately active low-pressure system, accompanied by relatively cold air masses that will lead to atmospheric instability starting this afternoon. Expected weather in: Saturday: Partly cloudy in the morning…

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Where did you get this… and that… and that?

IMLebanon: By Dr. George Shibli, to the claimants to utopianism, and perhaps sainthood, who hide behind their tainted finger, as if unaware that what is tainted does not conceal the truth about its stinking owner, but exposes it!!! In the time of legends, the author of “One Thousand and One Nights” told us about people who went from one state…

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It spiraled out of control… 700 AI programs carry out an attack on their own

Al Jadeed: Agence France-Presse reported that 700 artificial intelligence programs belonging to OpenAI coordinated with one another, without any human intervention, in an attack on the developers’ platform Hugging Face in July, according to a report published Wednesday by independent investigators. The report contains the most comprehensive analysis to date…

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A pilot suffers a health emergency midair… what will happen to the passengers?

Al Jadeed: A pilot suffers a health emergency midair… what will happen to the passengers? A pilot suffered a sudden health emergency while flying a Boeing 757-200 belonging to the U.S. company Delta, carrying 147 people on a flight from Los Angeles to Boston. After feeling pain during the flight and requesting to be taken to the hospital,…

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