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.
A selection of delegates from the COP25 climate conference in Spain have now flown to Bogota, Columbia, to join a separate U.N. meeting. They will spend seven days helping to decide if Thai massage should be added to UNESCO’s heritage list of Intangible Cultural Heritage as the committee seeks to enshrine “cultural diversity” as a global necessity.
The United Nations has begun a series of cutbacks at its New York headquarters, starting with the heating being turned down, the diplomats’ bar shuttering early at 5pm and meetings canceled along with diminished first class global travel budgets.
Tel-Aviv — While many in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv start the weekend at a sidewalk cafe, there is a small group of visitors walking the streets in search of Bauhaus buildings.
Egypt has asked international police agency Interpol to track down a 3,000-year-old Tutankhamun artefact that was sold in London for $6 million despite fierce opposition from Cairo, government officials said.
Christie’s auction house in London has been asked to stop the sale of a statue of “Boy King” Tutankhamun on Thursday, with Egyptian officials claiming it was stolen and should be returned.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan floated the idea of turning Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia back into a mosque in an interview Sunday.
Israel officially left the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on New Year’s Day in protest at the agency’s inability to combat its own politicization and profound anti-Israel bias.
Britain’s International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt has told Cabinet colleagues that the UK should leave the United Nations’ culture body, UNESCO.
DAMASCUS – Syria reopened a wing of the capital’s famed antiquities museum on Sunday after six years of closure to protect its exhibits and visitors from rebel rocket fire in the civil war.
Swift action is required to preserve dozens of World Heritage sites from the “high risk” of extensive damage from climate change, CNN reported this week.
NEW YORK — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday harshly criticized UNESCO, shunning an event organized by the organization, and making it plain that Israel will not reconsider last year’s decision to withdraw from it.
Britain has condemned the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and warned it to reform its treatment of Israel, joining the U.S. in a push to end the body’s institutional bias against the Jewish state.
The lack of human development in the Korean Demilitarized Zone [DMZ] has created peaceful wilderness where 106 endangered species are thriving, according to a report published this week by the South Korean government.
As the United States and its allies contemplate military action against Syria for gassing its own people, Syria is poised to chair the United Nations committee responsible for banning chemical weapons.
PARIS — The crown prince of Saudi Arabia is making his first official visit to France, which is hoping to profit from his shake-up of the conservative kingdom.
TEL AVIV – The Trump administration’s bid to end bias against Israel at the UN is “actually a demand for peace,” the U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley told the annual AIPAC convention in Washington on Monday evening in a speech met with rapturous applause and a dozen standing ovations.
France on Monday returned three paintings by the Flemish master Joachim Patinir to the descendants of a Jewish family who were forced to sell them as they fled the Nazis.
BEIRUT — Syria’s antiquities department and a war monitor on Sunday said a 3,000-year-old temple has been damaged in Turkish air strikes on a Kurdish militia in the country’s north.
A Holocaust exhibition at the National Library in Tunis met with fierce opposition, with demonstrators tearing down posters and condemning what they called “propaganda” for the “decades-old myth about a genocide of the Jewish people.”
Israel has formally notified the UN’s culture and education body of its withdrawal from the organization, two months after it announced it would follow the US by walking out over resolutions critical of the Jewish state.
While President Barack Obama elevated the UN over his own country, Trump has fought for American sovereignty. But there is much more he could do.
Israel is expected to announce its withdrawal from UNESCO this week in an expression of gratitude to the U.S. for its recognition of Jerusalem as the country’s capital.
The United Nations has awarded the art of Neapolitan pizza making with official recognition as part of the cultural heritage of humanity.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has been challenged to “repudiate anti-Israel hate and rejectionism” in his organization when he speaks in Geneva to mark the 70th anniversary of the partitioning of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states.
The United Nations’ scientific and cultural body UNESCO formally appointed a French former culture minister as its head Friday, just weeks after the Trump administration pulled the U.S. from the organization over its alleged anti-Israel bias.
PARIS — The chief U.S. envoy at UNESCO says anti-Israel bias and opaque bureaucracy are hobbling the U.N. cultural agency and is urging deep reforms.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s standing at the United Nations is slowly improving as that of the Palestinians is on the wane, the country’s envoy to the world body said in an interview published by the Hebrew newspaper Makor Rishon on Friday.
Another day, enough major science scandal involving corrupt, self-serving, ideologically-driven functionaries at the United Nations.
A group of scholars affiliated with UNESCO criticized the agency for recent one-sided resolutions on Jerusalem, calling for a new approach to sensitive holy sites that takes into consideration everyone’s religious sensitivities.
In the wake of Israel announcing its withdrawal from United Nations cultural body UNESCO due to anti-Israel bias, Israeli representatives walked out of the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s (IPU) gathering in St. Petersburg this week after encountering severe harassment from Arab and Muslim parliamentarians.
Following the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw the United States from the U.N.’s educational, scientific, and cultural body (UNESCO) over it’s anti-Israel bias, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) introduced a resolution that “recognizes and affirms the historical connection of the Jewish people to the ancient and sacred city of Jerusalem.”
PARIS – UNESCO’s executive board voted Friday to make a former French government minister the U.N. cultural agency’s next chief after an unusually heated election that was overshadowed by Middle East tensions.
PARIS – Two Arab candidates and France’s former culture minister vied to become the new head of the UN’s embattled culture and education agency on Friday, a day after the US quit the body, accusing it of anti-Israel bias.
The United States announced Thursday it is pulling out of the U.N.’s educational, scientific and cultural agency because of what Washington sees as its anti-Israel bias and a need for “fundamental reform” in the agency. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel plans to follow suit.
On Thursday, House Foreign Affairs chairman Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) lauded the United States’s decision to withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), citing the move as “unfortunate but appropriate” because of UNESCO’s anti-Israel bias.
The U.S. announced that it is withdrawing from UNESCO Thursday, citing long-standing concerns of significant anti-Israel bias at the body.