The world is in a febrile state. Europe is watching Russian aggression into Ukraine while the Middle East and parts of Africa remain unstable as China flexes in Asia. Still, the increasingly sidelined United Nations has its priorities firmly in place.
The desire of the United Nations to control artificial intelligence (AI) and use it to shape public discourse was once again expressed on Tuesday, when the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) kicked off its “AI for Africa Conference.”
The Trump administration officially withdrew from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Tuesday, reversing another policy of President Joe Biden’s administration.
The administration of President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that it would withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), a global body most commonly known for keeping a catalogue of the world’s most culturally significant places.
The United States is severing ties with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) — the cultural engagement arm of the United Nations (U.N.) — citing the agency’s drift from its founding mission and embrace of radical ideologies such as globalist priorities, anti-Israel bias, and the admission of the “State of Palestine” as a Member State as incompatible with American interests.
President Donald Trump signed a set of executive orders on Tuesday withdrawing from one United Nations body, defunding another, and ordering a review of U.S. involvement in others.
President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday that he “left instructions” to wipe out Iran if the regime attempted to kill him, as they had reportedly been trying to do.
China’s state-run Global Times fired the metaphorical starting gun on the 2025 Spring Festival travel rush on Tuesday.
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday tried to take credit for the restoration of the fire-damaged Notre Dame cathedral.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres encouraged world governments on Tuesday to “rein in hate speech and disinformation spreading online” through a global censorship framework.
Israel said Thursday that it would ensure the safety of Lebanon’s cultural heritage sites, even as it evacuates cities that are near ancient ruins and archaeological treasures.
Italy’s ancient Roman Appian Way was admitted to the UNESCO World Heritage List on Saturday, becoming the country’s 60th entry on the list.
The wildfire threatening Canada’s historic town of Jasper has quadrupled in size to more than 36,000 hectares and damaged up to half of the structures in town as of Friday.
UNESCO published a study that finds artificial intelligence systems are incorporating racial and sex stereotypes.
A recent initiative by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has ignited a debate over free speech and the regulation of online communication. Using the ominous term “Internet of Trust,” UNESCO plays a full spectrum deployment of techniques like ‘algorithmic suppression’ to diminish speech online that the UN doesn’t approve of.
Top art historian publishes report on fire, says not only could blaze been avoided, but other historic buildings remain vulnerable.
First Lady Jill Biden is hosting a celebration at the White House Tuesday evening to mark the re-entry of the U.S. into the antisemitic, anti-Israel United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which it left in 2019.
Genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping welcomed UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay to Beijing to discuss expanding “heritage protection.”
A longtime aide who once worked for the first lady will be nominated by President Joe Biden to represent the U.S. at the U.N. agency devoted to education, science and culture, a White House official said Monday.
One person was killed in Sunday’s bombings, and 25 registered architectural monuments had been hit, the mayor said.
First lady Jill Biden landed in Paris early Monday morning ready to celebrate the United States formally rejoining a U.N. arts and culture agency which has billed the White House $619 million for its trouble.
UNESCO announced Monday that the far-left administration of President Joe Biden has decided to return America to the organization.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), an agency best known for maintaining a list of humanity’s most valuable cultural heritage sites, demanded the establishment of “global guidelines for the regulation of social media” in a conference on Wednesday to address alleged “disinformation.”
Angela Merkel has been awarded a peace prize for her open borders approach to the European migrant crisis in 2015.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced on Tuesday that it will provide assistance to preserve World Heritage sites in Turkey and Syria that were damaged by Monday’s devastating earthquakes.
A provision in the $1.7 trillion “omnibus” spending bill currently before Congress would let the U.S. rejoin the antisemitic United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which it left in 2019.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned Saturday that Mount Kilimanjaro will lose its glacier by 2050 if countries fail to take “bolder” action to curb climate change.
Russian missiles struck an airport near Lviv on Friday – the far-western Ukrainian city where hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Russian invasion have sought shelter, and hundreds of foreign journalists are based. Lviv is less than 50 miles from the Polish border.
The Czech village of Poniklá has produced Christmas ornaments made by hand from blown-glass beads since the early 20th century. The practice continues to thrive today after surviving decades of communism that nationalized the Czech glass-making industry from about 1948-1989
The committee said the projects were “detrimental to the site´s authenticity and integrity” and had caused “irreversible loss of attributes.”
The tiny Balkans nation of Montenegro is currently seeking to refinance a billion dollars in Chinese loans for a highly controversial “road to nowhere” infrastructure project.
The official Spanish-language Twitter account of UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural agency, celebrated the birthday of Irish-Argentine mass murderer Ernesto “Che” Guevara on Monday with a selected excerpt of his “historic” speech to the U.N. in 1964.
The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released the latest additions to its global cultural heritage list Friday, applauding the contributions made by competitive grass mowing in the Balkans and camel racing in the Middle East in helping to make the world a better, more inclusive place.
A Taiwanese PhD student said this week a UNESCO-funded science conference denied him entry, claiming new “U.N. rules” banned Taiwanese nationals from participating in all UNESCO events, Taiwan News reported on Monday.
Israel’s plans to make the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron wheelchair accessible has sparked outrage among the Palestinian officials, who slammed it as a “war crime” that merits the launch of a bloody third intifada.
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou denounced Turkey’s conversion of the historic Church of Chora into a mosque as an act of “symbolic violence” this weekend.
Ecuador’s navy said on Tuesday that nearly 150 fishing boats from a largely Chinese fleet operating near the ecologically sensitive Galápagos Islands have turned off their tracking systems to prevent authorities from monitoring their activities.
The United Nations flagged Monday it is ready for the world to shrug off its cares and woes and consider a holiday in Iran.
Proponents of #SexEdForAll teach children should learn about sexual “pleasure” as part of what is considered “medically accurate” sex ed.
The bureaucrat in charge of England’s Lake District National Park wants to spend £8 million tarmacking over parts of the world-renowned beauty spot in order to make it more relevant to disabled people and ethnic minorities.
