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FILE - Sun rises over Omaha Beach near Colleville-sur-Mer Normandy, Thursday, June 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, file)

UNESCO adds France’s D-Day landing beaches, Greece’s Mount Olympus to World Heritage List

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

Novice monks walk in a procession near Dhamek Stupa in Sarnath, India, Sunday, July 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp among new additions to join UNESCO’s World Heritage List

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

Sunflowers bloom in Kalyvia Varikou, near Litochoro in northern Greece, backdropped by Mount Olympus, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Mount Olympus, home of the ancient Greek gods, vies for World Heritage status

By Costas Kantouris and Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

The UNESCO flag flies at its headquarters Tuesday, July 22, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

Trump administration withdraws from UNESCO again, only 2 years after U.S. rejoined

By Farnoush Amiri and Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

The UNESCO flag flies at its headquarters Tuesday, July 22, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

U.S. says it’s leaving U.N. cultural agency UNESCO again, only 2 years after rejoining

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Burna Boy arrives for the Louis Vuitton Spring Summer 2025 collection, that was presented in Paris, France, Tuesday, June 18, 2024. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Pharrell at Louis Vuitton celebrates the diversity of human skin in Paris UNESCO show

By Thomas Adamson - Associated Press

People are reflected in a window of a hotel at the Davos Promenade in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 15, 2024. Artificial intelligence could be misused to spread misleading or false claims about the Holocaust, a new UNESCO report warns. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

AI could help spread false and misleading information on Holocaust, UNESCO report warns

By David Klepper - 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

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

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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The Eiffel Tower, country flags and the Dome are seen from the garden of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) headquarters building during the 39th session of the General Conference at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The United States is ready to rejoin the U.N. cultural and scientific agency UNESCO – and pay more than $600 million in back dues -- after a decade-long dispute sparked by the organization's move to include Palestine as a member. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) **FILE**

U.S. decides to rejoin UNESCO and pay back dues, to counter Chinese influence

By Angela Charlton - Associated Press

Visitors wearing a face masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 admire statues in the Rome Capitoline Museums, including the second century A.D. Roman marble statue &quot;Cupid and Psyche&quot;, at right, Tuesday, May 19, 2020. In Italy, museums were allowed to reopen this week for the first time since early March, but few were able to receive visitors immediately as management continued working to implement social distancing and hygiene measures, as well as reservation systems to stagger visits to museums in the onetime epicenter of the European pandemic. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

UN agency warns pandemic could kill 1 in 8 museums worldwide

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

Prada partners with UN on 10-city ocean education project

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2019 file photo, Yalitza Aparicio, nominated for an Oscar for best actress for her role in &quot;Roma,&quot; poses for a portrait at the 91st Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills, Calif. The United Nations' cultural agency UNESCO is appointing Friday Oct. 4, 2019 Mexican actress Yalitza Aparicio as its Goodwill ambassador for the indigenous peoples.(Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Mexican actress Aparicio named UNESCO ambassador

By MASHA MACPHERSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018 photo, a visitor photographs a renovated part of a fresco inside the Church of the Nativity, built atop the site where Christians believe Jesus Christ was born, in the West Bank City of Bethlehem. The U.N. cultural agency says Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity is no longer considered endangered world heritage, thanks to extensive restoration work on the traditional birthplace of Jesus. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

UN: Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity no longer in danger

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U.S. and Israel exit U.N. cultural agency, claiming bias

By Thomas Adamson - Associated Press

A woman walks past a mural depicting reggae music icon Bob Marley painted on the rolling shutter of a Tobacconist shop in Rome, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Reggae music put on UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list

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