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In this July 6, 2015 photo, a Christian visitor pours water from the Jordan River over the head of another at the baptismal area on the eastern bank of the river in South Shuna, Jordan, as people, background, gather for their baptism on the western bank at the Israeli-run site located in a part of the West Bank. UNESCO recently designated Jordan's baptismal area a World Heritage site, over the Israeli-run site of Qasr al-Yahud in the West Bank, which is one of three territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war. Qasr al-Yahud remains under full Israeli military occupation. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

UNESCO backs Jordan waterside as Jesus’ baptism site, but debate continues

By Karin Laub and Sam McNeil - Associated Press

In this June 29, 2015, photo, tourists walk at the pier at Hashima Island, commonly known as Gunkanjima, which means “Battleship Island,” off Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, southern Japan. The island is one of 23 old industrial facilities seeking UNESCO's recognition as world heritage “Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution” meant to illustrate Japan's rapid transformation from a feudal farming society into an industrial power at the end of the 19th century. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan’s UNESCO heritage bid draws ire over past labor abuse

By Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

Tourist photographs a damaged building near Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, June 15, 2015. Nepal on Monday reopened most of the cultural heritage sites that were damaged in a pair of devastating earthquakes, hoping to lure back foreign tourists. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Quake-hit Nepal reopens damaged heritage sites for tourists

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

The indigenous Kadazan-Dusun people claimed that a group of exhibitionist Western tourists so offended local animist spirits that they triggered a magnitude 5.9 earthquake that killed 18 climbers June 5 on Malaysia's Mount Kinabalu, a UNESCO World Heritage site. (Associated Press)

Nude tourists at Southeast Asia’s sacred sites spark exhibitionism fad worries

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 27, 2005 file photo, a temple to the Shamash sun god still stands over 1,750 years after the Sassanian empire razed the Mesopotamian city of Hatra, 320 kilometers (200 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's minister of tourism and antiquities told The Associated Press, Saturday, March 7, 2015, that the government is investigating reports that the ancient archaeological site of Hatra in northwestern Iraq is being demolished by militants from the Islamic State group. The group has already looted artifacts from Nimrud, another ancient archaeological site, on Friday and bulldozed it in a move UNESCO deemed &quot;a war crime.&quot; (AP Photo/Antonio Castaneda, File)

IS destroying another ancient archaeological site in Iraq

By SAMEER N. YACOUB and VIVIAN SALAMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, file photo, U.S. musician Herbie Hancock performs during a concert, part of the 10th edition of the Panama Jazz Festival, in Panama City. Hancock reckons he's performed more often in Japan than in his hometown of Chicago during his professional career. The pianist will be back in April 2014 for an all-star concert at Osaka Castle Park highlighting the third annual International Jazz Day. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco, File)

Osaka to host all-star concert on Int’l Jazz Day

By CHARLES J. GANS - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

POBLETE: Halting UNESCO’s misguided path

By Yleem Poblete

UNESCO Jewish exhibit delayed for 6 months

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San Antonio Missions nominated for heritage list

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Azerbaijan

Baku 2015 heralds new era In European sports movement

By Baku 2015 Press Relations

This combination of two citizen journalist images shows at left: the damaged 12th century Umayyad mosque without the minaret, which was destroyed by shelling in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday April 24, 2013; and at right, an undated view of the mosque with is minaret still intact. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC, FILE)

Syria’s ancient cultural heritage a casualty of civil war

By Lori Hinnant - Associated Press

** FILE ** Che Guevara (Associated Press)

U.S. ambassador David Killion urges UNESCO to pull Guevara writings from Register

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Che Guevara (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: A hero for UNESCO

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** Che Guevara (Associated Press)

‘Reprehensible’: UNESCO adds works of Che Guevara to World Register

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama looks out of the "door of no return" during a tour of Goree Island, Thursday, June 27, 2013, in Goree Island, Senegal. Goree Island is the site of the former slave house and embarkation point built by the Dutch in 1776, from which slaves were brought to the Americas. The "door of no return" was the entrance to the slave ships. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

‘Powerful moment’: Obama tours historic slave-trade site off Senegal coast

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Ancient art in Somaliland in diplomatic limbo

By John Price

** FILE ** In this Dec. 9, 2012, file photo, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal waves during his visit to the Islamic University in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, File)

Hamas bulldozes cultural site to make way for ‘terrorist training camp’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Int’l Jazz Day to celebrate Turkish jazz link

By CHARLES J. GANS - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, file photo, is a general view of a destroyed pottery shop inside the Old City of Aleppo, Syria, a listed UNESCO World Heritage Site that was gutted in October and which is now controlled by the Free Syrian Army. Syria’s top antiquities official is calling for U.N. intervention and cooperation from neighboring countries to halt the illicit trafficking of its artifacts as the 23-month civil war rages on.(AP Photo/Monica Prieto, File)

Syria official warns of trafficking in antiquities

By Dale Gavlak - Associated Press