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Credit: UNESCO by Thalif Deen (united nations) Friday, March 08, 2024 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Mar 08 (IPS) – The Paris-based UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), whose mandate includes promoting the safety of journalists and ensuring press freedom worldwide, has pointed out that 2023 has been a particularly …

The Ukrainian military has vowed retaliation after Russian missile strikes on Odesa early Sunday morning, July 23 damaged at least six residential buildings, a Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and “architectural monuments, in the UNESCO heritage city of Odesa.  “Dozens of cars were damaged, facades and roofs of many buildings in the …

It is said the Mourne mountains of Northern Ireland were “born of fire and shaped by ice”, moulded from 400 million years of geological history into a landscape of dark peaks, drowned glacial lakes and lush green farmland, patchworked by stone walls. Now, that jaw-dropping beauty, as well as sustainable …

Moenjodaro (also styled Mohenjo-daro), a World Heritage site in the Indus River Valley 508 kilometers (316 miles) from Karachi, was built in the Bronze Age, some 5,000 years ago. “Unfortunately we witnessed the mass destruction at the site,” reads a letter from the Cultural, Tourism, & Antiquities Department of Singh …