Japanese cabinet approves nominating mines for UNESCO list, defying South Korea’s protest

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Cabinet formally approved nominating several mines for consideration as world heritage sites by UNESCO, the government's top spokesperson said on Tuesday, defying…

U.N. bodies urge Yemen’s Houthis to release two staff members

(Reuters) - Yemen's Houthi movement has detained two staff members of UNESCO and U.N. Human Rights since early November, the UN bodies said in a joint statement on Tuesday, calling…

U.S. takes steps to return to U.N. cultural body that Trump quit

By Patricia Zengerle and John Irish WASHINGTON/PARIS (Reuters) - The United States is making early moves toward rejoining the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO four years after former President Donald Trump…