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Teachers should be among first for COVID-19 jabs - Unesco
The call came as the United States, the country worst hit by the virus, kickstarted the biggest vaccination drive in its history by giving the jab to a nurse in...
The fire was started a week ago, apparently to distract park rangers and anti-poaching teams.
Valuable paintings, stone sculptures and sarcophagi at three institutions on the German capital's Unesco-listed Museum Island were sprayed with an 'oily liquid', leaving visible stains, Berlin police told AFP.
UNESCO said it had counted 21 protests between January and June of this year where journalists were attacked, arrested or killed.
A survey of almost 1,600 museums in 107 countries by the International Council of Museums showed that almost all museums around the world were closed because of COVID-19.
Another six people were wounded, the spokesman told AFP, adding that four other civilians passing through the area were also targeted.
Venetians awoke to sirens indicating that the high waters were expected to exceed 130 centimetres (50 inches), enough to bring the salty dirty water back again into the UNESCO city's historic centre.
Professor Vuyisile Msila has emphasised the importance of everyone playing their role in preserving indigenous languages and using them to grow economies.
The photographer, widely known as Shawkan, last year received UNESCO's World Freedom Prize, dismaying the Egyptian authorities who accused him of 'terrorist and criminal acts'.
Minister of Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa was in Bo-Kaap on Monday to visit cultural and historical sites and engage with the community.
Unesco, the world body's cultural and scientific agency, added the genre that originated in Jamaica to its collection of 'intangible cultural heritage' deemed worthy of protection and promotion.
Each is unique and offer a range of experiences, including plant life, wildlife, majestic mountain views, cave paintings and more.
With the demand for vegan and vegetarian products increasing, it’s not hard to see why the meat and dairy industries want to make their voices heard.
The geoglyphs created by the Nazca and Paracas cultures considered archaeological enigmas, as no one knows for sure why they were drawn, or so large and for so long.
Unesco accepted the art of Neapolitan 'pizzaiuolo' on the world body’s list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
The withdrawal of the United States, which provides a fifth of Unesco's funding, is a severe blow for the Paris-based organisation which began work in 1946.
Sambor Prei Kuk, or ‘temple in the richness of the forest’ in the Khmer language, is home to numerous temples, ten of which are octagonal.
Australia's management of the Great Barrier Reef has come under sustained criticism amid the biggest ever coral die-off because of the strongest El Nino in 20 years.
UNESCO said it took time for authorities to respond to the significance of what extremist groups were doing.