Unesco’s executive board voted Friday to make a former French government minister the UN cultural agency’s next chief after an unusually heated election that was overshadowed by Middle East tensions. The board’s selection of Audrey Azoulay over a Qatari candidate came the day after the United States announced that it intends to pull out of Unesco because of its alleged anti-Israel bias. The news rocked a weeklong election already marked by geopolitical resentments, concerns......
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