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Ghana's Highlife finds its rhythm on UNESCO world stage

Americas
Press Review

Italy's culinary traditions recognised by UNESCO for first time ever

UNESCO to honour Haiti’s Compas music as cultural heritage

Americas

The Bright Side: India's festival of lights Diwali joins UNESCO heritage list

Asia / Pacific

Syria: Tourism struggles to return to the UNESCO site of Palmyra

Middle East
Across Africa

Across Africa : Flexing continent's specific perspective for 'The General History of Africa'

Africa
The Observers

NGOs scramble to preserve Gaza's war-torn heritage sites

Swiss seek recognition from UN cultural agency as tradition turns modern

Europe
Eye on Africa

UNESCO releases three new volumes of its "General History of Africa"

UNESCO board selects Egypt's former antiquities minister El-Enany as new chief

Culture

The Bright Side: Egypt opens one of its largest tombs to public after epic restoration

Africa

The Bright Side: UNESCO designates 26 new biosphere reserves including France's Lake Bourget

Environment

The Bright Side: Malawi's sacred Mount Mulanje added to UNESCO World Heritage List

Africa

Exploring Mount Mulanje: Sacred Malawi site added to UNESCO World Heritage List

Africa

US withdraws from UNESCO again, this time due to its support for ‘woke’ causes

Americas

Sierra Leone’s Tiwai Reserve joins UNESCO World Heritage list

France's Carnac stones vie for UNESCO world heritage list spot

France

The Bright Side: Art world’s ‘Indiana Jones’ recovers priceless documents stolen from The Hague

Europe
Focus

Meet the residents of Mont-Saint-Michel, France's medieval island

France

🌟The Bright Side: Guinea’s traditional Leppi fabric gets protected status

Africa

Archaeologists push to restore Syria’s war-torn heritage sites, including Palmyra

Middle East

Wildfire on remote French island threatens wildlife and research station

Analysis
Environment

Iraq's famed 'hunchback' of Mosul rises from ruins of IS group destruction

Iraq's famed 'hunchback' of Mosul rises from ruins of IS group destruction

Middle East

UNESCO offering educators pedagogical guidelines to combat hate, Holocaust denial and disinformation

Expert Analysis
Europe

Zinc roofers of Paris win UNESCO cultural heritage status

France

The Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire seems to be holding, but Gaza sees no end to war

Israel, Hezbollah at war; Lebanon caught in crossfire: Attacks could 'destroy centuries of heritage'

UNESCO 'enhanced protection' for 34 Lebanon heritage sites

Middle East

Lebanon formally requesting from UNESCO 'enhanced protection' for 34 archeological sites

UNESCO calls for action on international day against violence and bullying at school

France

‘Worse and worse’: UNESCO reports surge in journalist killings

Europe

Paris seeks UNESCO cultural heritage status for distinctive zinc rooftops

Europe
Focus

Jordan: Petra's tourism authority cracks down on Bedouin cave dwellers

Middle East

UNESCO says 1.4 million girls banned from school since Taliban retook power

Middle East

Tense talks over UNESCO heritage sites to be deemed at risk

UNESCO sounds alarm over artificial intelligence-fuelled Holocaust denial

Europe

UNESCO sports world initiative pushes for gender equality, rules to protect girls/women across globe

UNESCO awards its World Press Freedom Prize to all Palestinian journalists

Middle East

Five years after fire, Paris’s Notre-Dame on track for December reopening

France

French FM Séjourné 'strongly condemns' killing of Gaza aid workers

France
Tech 24

UN grapples with itself over artificial intelligence and equality

Business

AI tools by OpenAI and Meta generate sexist content, UNESCO warns

Technology

Macron marks one-year countdown to reopening with visit to Notre-Dame

France
Perspective

Amnesty accuses Cambodia of 'mass forced evictions' at Angkor Wat

The 51%

Sixty years of educational planning at UNESCO: Addressing gender inequality

Africa
Focus

Major Laos dam project sparks fears for environment and local heritage

Asia / Pacific
Eye on Africa

UNESCO puts four Rwanda genocide memorials on World Heritage list

Africa
Science

Prehistoric Jericho site voted onto UNESCO World Heritage List

Middle East

Libyan UNESCO World Heritage sites threatened by floods

UNESCO lists ancient ruins near West Bank city of Jericho as World Heritage Site

Middle East

Israeli team attends UNESCO meeting in first open visit to Saudi Arabia

Middle East
Press Review

Overtourism and climate change: UNESCO warns Venice's heritage is in danger

Jill Biden marks US re-entry into UNESCO at Paris ceremony

Americas

First lady Jill Biden marks US reentry into UNESCO at Paris ceremony

Americas
Tech 24

Mind control: Top neurotech firms can hoard and share patients' brain data

Business

China, AI and a say on world order: Why the US rejoined UNESCO

WORLD ORDER
Americas

Evacuation of Kyiv icons takes fight for Ukraine’s heritage to Louvre in Paris

CULTURE WAR
Culture

China, AI and a say on world order: Why the US wants back in UNESCO

WORLD ORDER
Americas

US plans to rejoin UNESCO from July, ending membership dispute

Americas

Mystery of the desert: The lost cities of the Nigerien Sahara

Niger
Africa

UN talks on a treaty to end global plastic pollution open in Paris

Focus

Celebrating a thousand years of pilgrimage: France's Mont-Saint-Michel

France

The best in town: Sri Lankan baker wins Paris's 'best baguette' award

French gastronomy facing logistical challenge for 2024 Paris Olympics

Europe

UN warns 'vampiric' water use leading to 'imminent' global crisis

Americas

Italy drought: Famed Venice canals run dry, gondola beached by low tides

Turkish cultural heritage sites hit hard by quakes

On the ground
Middle East
Focus

Losing its marbles? Pressure mounts on British Museum to return Parthenon frieze

Europe

UNESCO sounds alarm stating Odesa a 'World Heritage in Danger' site

Europe
Focus

Iraq's Mosul rises from the ashes, five years after liberation from IS group

Middle East
Focus

On thin ice: Argentina's melting glaciers, a symbol of climate change

Americas