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Preparations are underway ahead of the visit of UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay to al-Nuri Mosque in the old city of Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, reconstructed by UNESCO after being damaged in battles with the Islamic State group when it held the city. (AP Photo/Farid Abdulwahed)

Historic landmarks in Iraq’s Mosul are reopening as the city heals from Islamic State devastation

By Stella Martany - Associated Press

Pharrell Williams gestures as speaks after he was named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for for Arts, Education and Entrepreneurship at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Pop star Pharrell Williams is named a UNESCO goodwill ambassador

By Thomas Adamson - Associated Press

Guests offer a moment of silence during a memorial ceremony for the Sado Island Gold Mine in Sado, Niigata prefecture, Japan, as several seats reserved for South Korean guests remained empty Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan holds first memorial for ‘all workers’ at Sado gold mines but blurs WWII atrocity. Why?

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Relatives of Korean victims and South Korean officials offer a minute of silence during a memorial service in Sado, Niigata prefecture, Japan, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024, a day after boycotting a memorial organized by Japanese officials. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

South Korea holds memorial for forced laborers at Sado mines, a day after boycotting Japanese event

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Chinese influence in UNESCO illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

If U.S. cannot prevent Chinese influence in UNESCO, why are we involved?

By Louise V. Oliver

Tourists line up for stepping up Angkor Wat temple outside Siem Reap, Cambodia, on Dec. 31, 2017. The human rights group Amnesty International in a report released Tuesday Nov. 14, 2023 has strongly criticized the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO and its World Heritage program for failing to challenge the Cambodian government’s ongoing mass evictions at the world famous centuries-old Angkor Wat temple complex. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

UNESCO urges Cambodia not to forcibly evict residents of Angkor Wat temple complex

By Angela Charlton - Associated Press

FILE - Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge maintenance crew leader Pete Chesser, right, crew member Walker Huling, left, pile their pruned vegetation along a wilderness water trail, Tuesday, April 5, 2022, in Folkston, Ga. A U.S. agency says it will nominate the Okefenokee Swamp's vast wildlife refuge for a place on the official list of the world's most treasured natural and cultural sites. The National Park Service filed a notice Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, that it will seek a UNESCO World Heritage site designation for the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, File)

U.S. to nominate Okefenokee Swamp refuge for listing as UNESCO World Heritage site

By Russ Bynum - Associated Press

FILE - Paintings decorate the walls of the Saint Sophia Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 26, 2022. The U.N.’s World Heritage Committee has placed two major historical sites in Ukraine on its list of such sites that it considers to be in danger, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. The iconic Saint Sophia Cathedral and the medieval center of the western city of Lviv, are UNESCO World Heritage Sites central to Ukraine’s culture and history. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

UNESCO puts two locations in war-ravaged Ukraine on its list of historic sites in danger

By Baraa Anwer - Associated Press

A Bumphead parrotfish swims above corals on Moore Reef in Gunggandji Sea Country off the coast of Queensland in eastern Australia on Nov. 13, 2022. The Australian government on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, welcomed a draft UNESCO decision to a lift a threat of downgrading the Great Barrier Reef to an endangered World Heritage site. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil, File)

Australia welcomes lifting of UNESCO threat to list Great Barrier Reef as World Heritage in danger

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

First lady Jill Biden poses at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, Tuesday, July 25, 2023. U.S. first lady Jill Biden visited Paris on Tuesday to attend a flag-raising ceremony at UNESCO, marking Washington's official reentry into the U.N. agency after a five-year hiatus. (Bertrand Guay, Pool via AP)

Jill Biden to mark U.S. reentry into UNESCO with a flag-raising ceremony in Paris

By Thomas Adamson - Associated Press

First lady Jill Biden speaks during an event with the National Education Association in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Tuesday, July 4, 2023, in Washington. Biden will join other VIPs and speak at a ceremony Tuesday, July 25, at the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The American flag will be raised to mark the U.S. return to membership after a five-year absence. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Jill Biden in Paris to mark the U.S. return to the U.N.’s educational and scientific agency

By Darlene Superville - Associated Press

U.S. formally rejoins UNESCO after five-year absence

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

The UN’s scientific and education organization votes to readmit the United States

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

UNESCO member states expected to approve U.S. decision to rejoin the U.N.’s cultural agency

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about the roll-out of the International Religious Freedom Report at the State Department in Washington, Monday, May 15, 2023. Blinken is planning to travel to China next week as the Biden administration pushes to improve ties that hit a new low in February after a Chinese surveillance balloon was shot down over U.S. airspace. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP, File)

U.S. aims to rejoin U.N. scientific and educational organization to push back on China

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press