Director-General denounces assassination of Paraguayan journalist Edgar...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Director-General denounces assassination of Paraguayan journalist Edgar Pantaleón Fernández Fleitas The...
View ArticleMetin Arditi named Special UNESCO Envoy for Intercultural Dialogue (UNESCO -...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Metin Arditi named Special UNESCO Envoy for Intercultural Dialogue The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova has...
View ArticleMedia development assessment kicks off in Myanmar (UNESCO - United Nations...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Media development assessment kicks off in Myanmar UNESCO and International Media Support (IMS), together with the...
View ArticleSafety of journalists to be promoted in Viet Nam (UNESCO - United Nations...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Safety of journalists to be promoted in Viet Nam With the support of the International Programme for the Development...
View ArticleImproving gender equality in and through the media in Thailand (UNESCO -...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Improving gender equality in and through the media in Thailand With the support of the International Programme for...
View ArticleCERN celebrates its 60th anniversary at UNESCO (UNESCO - United Nations...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) CERN celebrates its 60th anniversary at UNESCO Paris, 30 June - The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)...
View ArticleDirector-General condemns murder of Russian cameraman Anatoli Klian (UNESCO -...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Director-General condemns murder of Russian cameraman Anatoli Klian The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova,...
View ArticleBotswana's Okavango Delta becomes 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage Site
UNESCO's World Heritage list hit a milestone of sorts last week when it proclaimed the Okavango Delta in northwest Botswana as its 1,000th site. The African delta was among 26 new places on the globe...
View ArticleExperts met in Warsaw to elaborate a recommendation on preservation of...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Experts met in Warsaw to elaborate a recommendation on preservation of documentary heritage Following Resolution 53...
View ArticleCulture is our future: we must protect it! Appeal of UNESCO Honorary and...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Culture is our future: we must protect it! Appeal of UNESCO Honorary and Goodwill Ambassadors Honorary and Goodwill...
View ArticleFighter jet goes down in flames near Syrian border
Turkish fighter jets have shot down a warplane near the Syrian border after it violated Turkey's airspace on Tuesday, a Turkish military official said. The nationality of the downed aircraft was not...
View ArticleMilitants attack Egypt election judges' hotel in Sinai
Cairo: Islamist militants killed four people in an attack on a hotel in Egypt's North Sinai where election judges were staying, the military and Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. A militant tried to...
View ArticleMigrant crisis: UNHCR decries 'profiling' of refugees, upholds right to asylum
Geneva: About 1000 refugees and migrants are stuck at the main crossing point into Macedonia from Greece as authorities deny entry to some nationalities in contravention of international law, the...
View ArticleRussian fighter jet downing: NATO to convene emergency meeting in Brussels
Istanbul: NATO is preparing to convene an emergency meeting in Brussels overnight as tensions between Turkey and Russia intensified after Turkey confirmed two of its F-16s downed a Russian fighter jet...
View ArticleRussia's Putin calls Turkey's downing of Russian jet 'stab in the back'
Moscow/Sochi, Russia: President Vladimir Putin called Turkey's downing of a Russian fighter jet a stab in the back administered by "the accomplices of terrorists," saying the incident would have...
View ArticleRussian fighter jet shot down: Russia and Turkey are fighting the wrong enemy
ANALYSIS This is the war Islamic State wants, against squabbling enemies far more suspicious of each other than they are united in a fight against the extremists themselves. Had Russia and Turkey...
View ArticleUNESCO is seeking nominations for UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) This Prize was established by UNESCO's Executive Board, in 1997, in honour of Guillermo Cano, a Colombian journalist...
View ArticleHostages taken in northern France
Roubaix, France: Armed men have taken hostages after gun shots were fired in the northern French town of...
View ArticleRussian jet fighter pilots' fate unclear, disputed by Turkey, Russia
A Russian pilot was shot dead from the ground after Turkey downed a Russian fighter jet in Syria and another soldier died during a rescue attempt, Russia's military general staff said on Tuesday....
View ArticlePayback and vested interests drove Turkey to shoot down Russian jet
Opinion Washington: In addressing the Turkish shooting down of a Russian warplane, I was about to put to one side the mind-bogglingly complex issue of how to deal with the madness of Islamic State, but...
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