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Saudi Harrat Uwayrid Reserve Added to UNESCO’s MAB Program

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) added Saudi Arabia’s Harrat Uwayrid Reserve to the Man and the Biosphere Program (MAB). The announcement came Wednesday during the 43rd meeting after the reserve met all the criteria required for registration. Harrat Uwayrid is the largest nature reserve in AlUla…

Asharq Al-Awsat

UNESCO: Some 770 million adult people are illiterate worldwide, including two thirds of women

Some 770 million people are illiterate worldwide, with two thirds of them being women, UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay said at the 7th International Conference on Adult Education. Full story on Dynamite News:

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Labour movement icon comes into some cash

The restoration of a faded symbol of the birth of unionism in this country has been given a welcome shot in the arm.

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Under The Sea: Shipwrecks Expand Microbial Diversity, New Study Shows

The millions of shipwrecks resting in the world’s oceans are increasing the surrounding areas’ microbial richness, according to new research.

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American tourist banned for life from Rome’s Spanish Steps after causing $26,000 in damages with e-scooter

The landmark had just undergone a $1.5m renovation in 2015

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AlUla Concludes Hegra Conference of Nobel Laureates & Friends

The three-day 2022 Hegra Conference of Nobel Laureates & Friends, organized by the Royal Commission for AlUla, has concluded. The conference gathered winners of Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, UNESCO for Women in Science Prize, King Faisal Prize, and King Salman Prize, along with prominent figures from around the world, in…

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Rome’s cultural elite write to Unesco over ‘mortifying’ scenes of rubbish

Artists, professors and environmentalists appeal to world body to remind council of duty to clean up mess

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Aboriginal elders voice concerns over proposed Tasmanian trek through areas of 'immense importance'

Tourism operator Experience Co is pushing for a seven-day catered walk through Tasmania's south-west, but elders say proposals in areas with Aboriginal heritage sites should be put on hold until the state's new Aboriginal Heritage Act is tabled later this year.

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Environment to-do list: five ministerial priorities for Tanya Plibersek

Australia’s new minister faces difficult challenges fixing laws, creating an EPA and curbing an extinction crisis

The Guardian - AU

Ukraine says Russian troops retreating in Sievierodonetsk, Zelenskyy calls for Russian expulsion from UNESCO

Ukrainian forces have reversed a Russian advance in Sievierodonetsk and recaptured about 20 per cent of the city, according to the region's Governor.

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Russian artillery hits monastery in Ukraine's east, says Zelenskiy

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russian artillery hit an early 17th century Ukrainian Orthodox monastery in war-torn eastern Ukraine on Saturday, engulfing a church in flames.

Reuters

Ten reasons why Bradford deserves to be 2025’s city of culture

From Charlotte Brontë to David Hockney and Zayn Malik, my home town of Bradford has a rich cultural history – and its beauty is balm for the soul

The Guardian - UK

Ivory Coast authorities build wall for endangered urban park

Authorities hope the protection efforts will help the park get listed among UNESCO’s world heritage sites.

Al Jazeera

Beyond research output, student well-being should be part of university quality indicators

Increasingly, students want more from higher education institutions beyond skills and knowledge, graduation certificates and the promise of employment. They also want care and guidance. Students even want to actively collaborate on their university’s quality assurance processes and add health and well-being as key indicators of university quality.

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Through war and decay, Libya’s ‘desert pearl’ tries to hold on

Instability in the rest of Libya has effects deep in the desert, finds Al Jazeera’s Malik Traina.

The Times of India

‘Talks on iconography of idols in Delhi’s Qutub Minar complex on’

NEW DELHI: The culture ministry on Monday said discussions are under way to conduct an iconography of the Hindu and Jain idols found in Delhi’s Qutub Minar complex and to see if they can be labelled and displayed at an interpretation centre that is intended to come up on the…

Evening Standard

Greece clash with British Museum over Parthenon marble claims

Greece has rejected claims made by the British Museum that marbles taken from the Parthenon were “removed from the rubble”.

The Guardian - UK

Sinking Maldives plans to reclaim land from the ocean

Vulnerable island nation split over project to dredge millions of tonnes of sand to create land for resorts and industry on Unesco reserve

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Greece rebuts British Museum claim Parthenon marbles were ‘removed from rubble’

Museum’s deputy director had told Unesco meeting contested treasures ‘were not all hacked’ from Greek temple

The Hindu

Pockets of hope, linking nature and humanity

It is important to increase the number of biosphere reserves in South Asia to ward off a doomsday ecological scenario

Bangkok Post

Patriots and arias: Italian opera seeks Unesco recognition

NAPLES (ITALY) - Opera originated in Italy, it was sung by Italian patriots and some of the world's greatest arias came from the peninsula. Now Rome wants credit where credit is due.

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Senegal is decolonising its heritage and re-imagining an African future

On the morning of 5 September 2017, the inhabitants of Saint-Louis, a regional capital on Senegal’s northwest coast, woke to a strange scene. The statue of Louis Faidherbe that had formed the focal point of the Square Faidherbe since 1887 had fallen.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Palestinian Authority Appeals to US to Stop Car Cable Project in Jerusalem

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Sunday appealed to the US administration and international community, mainly UNESCO, to exert pressure on Israel to halt the construction of a cable car project in occupied East Jerusalem. On Sunday, Israeli and Palestinian opponents of an Israeli plan to run a cable car over…

The Hindu

The importance of Lumbini

Modi’s visit is political and strategic and is an opportune time for India to do much more in the region

The Guardian - UK

Kos, Crete, Corfu and Mykonos: a guide to Greece’s favourite islands

From the mountains of the gods to open-air nightclubs, luxe beach cabanas to postcard perfect ancient towns, explore the four Greek islands that continue to capture our hearts

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