BEIRUT: Lebanese Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab gave his resumé to Qatari officials during a visit last week, Al-Akhbar newspaper has reported.
The Lebanese tabloid said that Diab surprised Qatari officials when he gave them a copy of his CV to find him a job.
“The news is too ridiculous to be replied to,” read a statement from Diab’s media office.
Al-Akhbar said Diab gave a copy of his resumé to prospective employers after the formation of a new Lebanese cabinet, which would remove his position as caretaker prime minister.
Al-Akhbar published that Diab’s purported move embarrassed a number of Qatari officials.
His visit was organized to discuss and seek Qatar’s support to fund the ration cards to be given to 750,000 poor families amid Lebanon’s economic crisis.
Diab’s media statement added that the newspaper reported on the Qatar trip “jokingly” in a bid to disrupt negotiations with Qatari officials.
“This is too silly. It is impossible for such a thing to have happened during an official trip … the news is a total sham in my opinion,” an official at Diab’s general headquarters, who requested anonymity, told Arab News.
The news sparked social media uproar, with many ridiculing the reported move with memes on WhatsApp. Some commenters defended Diab, with one Twitter user labelling him as “the most clean-handed official in Lebanon.”
On his Twitter handle, MP Jamil Al-Sayyed said any Lebanese official who visits the GCC would be interested in working there and making money.
Al-Sayyed said Diab presented his resumé for a future job at Qatar University based on his academic credentials. Diab is a former university professor.
“Where’s the bad in that! This is an indicator that he did not benefit from the state’s corruption like most of his predecessors,” he tweeted.
Another Twitter user said “Diab is open to work, no need for a CV, Google is enough.”
Lebanon PM Diab Qatar CV story ‘too ridiculous to be replied to’
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Lebanon PM Diab Qatar CV story ‘too ridiculous to be replied to’
- Lebanese tabloid Al Akhbar said Diab surprised Qatari officials when he gave them a copy of his CV to find him a job
- Diab’s media statement said newspaper reported on the Qatar trip “jokingly” in a bid to disrupt negotiations with Qatari officials
NASA and families of fallen astronauts mark 40th anniversary of space shuttle Challenger accident
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Families of the astronauts lost in the space shuttle Challenger accident gathered back at the launch site Thursday to mark that tragic day 40 years ago.
All seven on board were killed when Challenger broke apart following liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986.
At the Kennedy Space Center memorial ceremony, Challenger pilot Michael Smith’s daughter, Alison Smith Balch, said through tears that her life forever changed that frigid morning, as did many other lives. “In that sense,” she told the hundreds of mourners, “we are all part of this story.”
“Every day I miss Mike,” added his widow, Jane Smith-Holcott, “every day’s the same.”
The bitter cold weakened the O-ring seals in Challenger’s right solid rocket booster, causing the shuttle to rupture 73 seconds after liftoff. A dysfunctional culture at NASA contributed to that disaster and, 17 years later, shuttle Columbia’s.
Kennedy Space Center’s deputy director Kelvin Manning said those humble and painful lessons require constant vigilance “now more than ever” with rockets soaring almost every day and the next astronaut moonshot just weeks away.
Challenger’s crew included schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, who was selected from thousands of applicants representing every state. Two of her fellow teacher-in-space contenders — both retired now — attended the memorial.
“We were so close together,” said Bob Veilleux, a retired astronomy high school teacher from New Hampshire, McAuliffe’s home state.
Bob Foerster, a sixth grade math and science teacher from Indiana who was among the top 10 finalists, said he’s grateful that space education blossomed after the accident and that it didn’t just leave Challenger’s final crew as “martyrs.”
“It was a hard reality,” Foerster noted at the Space Mirror Memorial at Kennedy’s visitor complex.
Twenty-five names are carved into the black mirror-finished granite: the Challenger seven, the seven who perished in the Columbia disaster on Feb. 1, 2003, the three killed in the Apollo 1 fire on Jan. 27, 1967, and all those lost in plane and other on-the-job accidents.
Relatives of the fallen Columbia and Apollo crews also attended NASA’s Day of Remembrance, held each year on the fourth Thursday of January. The space agency also held ceremonies at Virginia’s Arlington National Cemetery and Houston’s Johnson Space Center.
“You always wonder what they could have accomplished” had they lived longer, Lowell Grissom, brother of Apollo 1 commander Gus Grissom, said at Kennedy. “There was a lot of talent there.”
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