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UNESCO News, Jul 05, 2012

Heritage City Seville's Skyscraper Rattles UNESCO
Naharnet
by Naharnet Newsdesk 05 July 2012, 10:28 ... U.N. cultural bodyUNESCO has warned Seville not to endanger its World Heritage status by building skyscrapers in its historic center after a controversial tower nearly stripped the Spanish city of its title.
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Naharnet
National Trust Reveals New Giant's Causeway Visitors Centre
Exec Digital (press release)
SWINDON, England, July 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A giant transformation awaits visitors to Northern Ireland's only UNESCO World Heritage Site with the opening of a new state-of-the-art visitor centre at the Giant's Causeway. With panoramic rooftop views ...
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Govt opposes Unesco tag for W Ghats
Deccan Herald
Bangalore, July 4, 2012, DHNS: The State government is in no mood to give the Western Ghats-Unesco tag matter a rest. It has raised serious contentions against the Centre for taking the matter into its own hands and renominating the Ghats in this year ...
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Culture ministry to nominate a Southern Buddhist Shrine as a World Heritage site
Pattaya Mail
BANGKOK, 3 July 2012 - The Ministry of Culture is planning to submit a nomination proposal requesting UNESCO to consider including Wat Phra Mahathat...
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Colorful Curacao Sets the Scene for Romance in Upcoming Episode of ABC's ...
MarketWatch (press release)
WILLEMSTAD, Curacao, Jul 05, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- As the competition heats up to win beautiful Bachelorette, Emily Maynard's heart, so does the temperature, as the ABC show travels to the Caribbean's best kept secret -- the colorful island of ...
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Steps will be taken to dispel fears over heritage tag for WG
Business Standard
Efforts will be made to dispel reservations expressed by some states to theworld heritage tag for Western Ghats as it was the most fragile and ecologically sensitive areas of the world, Defence Minister A K Antony today said. ... Thursday, Jul 05 ...
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Militant attacks threaten Timbuktu's Islam heritage - Today's World News
San Francisco Luxury News
Militant attacks threaten Timbuktu's Islam heritage – Today's World News. Publication Date 4 July 2012 ... Russia: “Moscow strongly condemns acts of vandalism in Timbuktu and fully shares UNESCO's alarm. We believe that this is one more reason to ...
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Air Seychelles' First Airbus A330 Touches Down In Seychelles
Abu Dhabi City Guide
Air Seychelles' First Airbus A330 Touches Down In Seychelles (5 July 2012). SPONSORED ... The aircraft is named in honor of Aldabra island, aUNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Seychelles' most remote and pristine islands. Aldabra, the world's ...
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Uranium Mining Will Be Safe - Govt
AllAfrica.com
Tanzania: Uranium Mining Will Be Safe - Govt. By Bilham Kimati, 5 July 2012. Comment ... Clarifying on the consent by the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on excavation of uranium ...
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Islamists continue destroying Timbuktu heritage
San Francisco Chronicle
The International Criminal Court has described the destruction of the city's patrimony as a possible war crime, while UNESCO'scommittee on world heritage was holding a special session this week to address the pillaging of the site, one of the few ...
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San Francisco Chronicle
New Giant's Causeway Visitors Centre Opened by National Trust
Travel-News.co.uk
... Causeway in Northern Ireland. The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the Northern Ireland Tourist Board (NITB), the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and the National Trust, have jointly funded the visitor centre at the UNESCO WorldHeritage Site.
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Travel-News.co.uk
Mali parliament calls for army intervention
The Sun Daily
BAMAKO (July 5, 2012): Mali's national assembly Wednesday called for army intervention in the north where Islamists have enforced strict sharia law, destroyed ancient shrines and trapped residents with landmines. In a statement calling for "restoration ...
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The Bernina Express: Switzerland's best train journey features glaciers, palm ...
Washington Times
CHARLOTTE, July 2, 2012 — The Bernina Express may not be Switzerland 's longest, or most famous, train trip, but it is the best classic rail journey in the country. Bernina ... A unification that ledUNESCO to jointly declare them a World Heritage ...
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Washington Times
CNN Dedicates Weekly Programming to Ukraine
Sacramento Bee
CNN's Eye On series dedicate their first week of July programming to Ukraine. The reporters of one of the world's largest news networks went to Ukraine for the EURO 2012 final, met with legendary Ukrainian footballer Andriy Shevchenko, and mapped their ...
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Scorching heat, dry conditions stifle July 4 celebrations in U.S.
swissinfo.ch
Image Caption: Silverstone, dressed as "Uncle Sam," marches in the Takoma Park Independence Day parade during celebrations of the United States' Fourth of July Independence Day holiday in Takoma Park, Maryland (reuters_tickers). By Samson Reiny ...
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Wholly water -- students and scientists gather at NTU to discuss water problem
Phys.Org (press release)
Leveraging on the university's expertise in sustainability research in water, the Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute (or NEWRI) will be generating water buzz at the SIWW from 2-4 July 2012. Inspired by Noah's Ark, this "ship" symbolises ...
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Historic Mali Muslim saints' tombs destroyed
San Francisco Chronicle
Wednesday Jul 04, 2012 9:17 PM PT. °. (change). Today. /. /. Traffic. close (change your city). San Francisco. Santa Rosa. Napa. Concord. Oakland ... Ansar Dine, one of the hardline Islamist groups controlling northern Mali, threatened on June 30,2012 ...
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San Francisco Chronicle
Africa Rising - When Will the West Join Africa?
AllAfrica.com
... Rising - When Will the West Join Africa? By Eliot Pence & Bright Simons, 5July 2012 ... Innovation and information flows - Reverse innovation, a concept describing inventions that are adopted first in the developing world, is creeping into western ...
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India among 22 nations in world's biggest naval exercise
Rediff
... will command components of the combined task force during the exercise. But while there would be major Indian staff participation, India would not be fielding a vessel in the exercise, reports Aziz Haniffa | World's biggest naval exercise underway ...
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Rediff
Karnataka opposes world heritage tag for Western Ghats
Yahoo! India News
Bangalore, July 5 -- The Karnataka government has opposed UNESCO'sdeclaration of giving 10 spots in Western Ghats the world heritage sites status because it would affect development work. Minister for forest CP Yogeshwar said the Centre has gone ...
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Japan plugs back in to nuclear power
Castanet.net
World. Japan plugs back in to nuclear power. by The Canadian Press - Story: 77487. Jul 4, 2012 / 11:57 pm. Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. A monitor at Ohi nuclear power plant in Ohi town, Fukui prefecture, western Japan indicates the No.
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Castanet.net
500 Yr Old Map Related to America's 'Birth Certificate' Discovered in Munich
Daily Disruption
The chart, which is registered in “Memory of the World,” UNESCO's inventory of the world's documentary heritage, is now on show in the Library of Congress in Washington. The map was formerly .... David July 4, 2012 at 7:20 pm - Reply. Good!… this ...
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Dr Nafis Sadik: A decade as UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Asia and the Pacific
UNAIDS
04 July 2012. Dr Nafis Sadik (second from the left, back row) with people living with HIV during an official visit to Viet Nam. Dr Nafis Sadik, a national of Pakistan, was appointed Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for AIDS in Asia and the ...
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UNAIDS
Storm watch till midnight
Boston.com
Storm watch till midnight. Print | Comments () Posted by David Epstein July4, 2012 06:25 PM. Tweet. E-mail .... Pack Up. By Melanie Nayer. NewUNESCO World Heritage Sites added to list of tourism hot sp.
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Factbox: Libya holds first national poll in 50 years
Reuters
The 2012 budget announced in March is expected to help stimulate the non-hydrocarbon sector and to bridge the shortfall in budget resources for social spending in the first budget approved by the interim government. -- The external current ... Libya's ...
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Advancing radical Islamists lay waste to religious heritage
swissinfo.ch
PARIS (Reuters) - The grim sacking of Sufi shrines in Timbuktu is the latest chapter in an assault on prized religious heritage across the Muslim world that has picked up over the past decade with the spread of radical Islamism. The world got a first ...
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swissinfo.ch
More than 1 million in U.S. still without power 5 days after storm
swissinfo.ch
... record · Switzerland: How to. Search. Jul 4, 2012 - 18:32 Send this story · Print this story ... The outage meant no July 4 Independence Day holiday for thousands of utility workers who scrambled to restore lingering power outages. Much of the ...
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Top 10 best and worst cities to live
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
By Tyler Falk | July 5, 2012, 6:58 AM PDT. The Economist Intelligence Unit — the city rankings ... Cultural assets: counting the number of UNESCO WorldHeritage Sites in the vicinity of the cities. Connectivity: calculating how many cities can be ...
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India to give free generic drugs to hundreds of millions
swissinfo.ch
... Culture · Sci & Tech · Specials» · more... Border Stories · Cabinet Election ·UNESCO-World Heritage · Roger Federer · Paul Klee · Switzerland for the record · Switzerland: How to. Search. Jul 4, 2012 - 22:01 Send this story · Print this story ...
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Boycotts and Divestment: A means to peace or a reason for a rift?
Haaretz
... is the best course of action. By Natasha Mozgovaya | Jul.05,2012 | 1:28 AM | 2 .... Higher education for all. While the Presbyterian church is preoccupied with the occupation, a project established by a California-based Israeli is trying to figure ...
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Haaretz
Rio de Janeiro awarded UNESCO World Heritage status - Telegraph
Wednesday 04 July 2012 ... Rio was one of eight new sites, four natural and four cultural, added to the UN's list on ... UNESCO's new World Heritage Sites ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Rio-de-Janeiro-awarded-UNESCO-W...
UNESCO World Heritage Centre - Twenty-six new sites inscribed on ...
Other news. Four natural and four cultural properties added to UNESCO's World Heritage List on Sunday Jul 1, 2012; Bahraini pearling site and the Mosque of ...
whc.unesco.org/en/news/903/
26 historic sites added to UNESCO's World Heritage list | Fox News
Fox News - Fair & Balanced. Fox News Digital ... Published July 02, 2012. FoxNews.com ... UNESCO released its new list of world heritage sites. The addition on ...
www.foxnews.com/.../historic-sites-added-to-unesco-world-he...
Timbuktu world heritage site attacked by Islamists | World news ...
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 1 July 2012 06.17 BST ... Unesco's world heritage committee said this week it had accepted the request of the Malian ... OnWorld news ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../timbuktu-world-heritage-site-attacked
Carmel Caves a UNESCO World Heritage Site - Inside Israel - News ...
World Heritage Committee of UNESCO votes to list the Nahal Me'arot Nature... All, News, Op-Eds, Judaism, News Briefs ... Middle East 4:12 AM 7/2/2012...
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/157421
World Heritage Committee condemns destruction of Mali sites
The World Heritage Committee has condemned the destruction of sites in Mali – including in the fabled city of ... 3 July 2012 – ... the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said in a newsrelease today.
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=42387...
UNESCO makes Xanadu a World Heritage Site
UNESCO makes Xanadu a World Heritage Site. Updated: 2012-07-02 07:48... That announcement came at the 36th session of the UNESCO's WorldHeritage ...
www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2012.../content_15541034.htm
BBC News - India's Western Ghats given Unesco World Heritage ...
2 July 2012 Last updated at 02:39 ET ... From other news sites ... India TodayUN's world heritage site includes Western Ghats 3 hrs ago ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-18669534
Germany's Bayreuth Opera named Unesco world heritage site ...
05-Jul-2012, 9:34 AM : BSP poised to crack down on NDFs amid forex speculation. Business | World | National Outsourcing to Philippines, US newsprovider ...
www.interaksyon.com/.../germanys-bayreuth-opera-named-un...
UNESCO announces Western Ghats as World Heritage Site in its ...
UNESCO announces Western Ghats as World Heritage Site in its List - 2 July ... Rising Sea Levels Threatens India's Coastal Areas - 3 July 2012, ZeeNews ...
www.indiaclimateportal.org/unesco-announces-western-ghats-...
UNESCO names Church of Nativity as first Palestinian World - Haaretz
Monday, July 02, 2012 Tammuz 12, 5772 ... By Barak Ravid and NewsAgencies ... UNESCO's World Heritage committee on Thursday approved a Palestinian ...
www.haaretz.com/.../unesco-names-church-of-nativity-as-first-...
Main - Malaysia - Unesco declares Lenggong Valley world heritage ...
Daily News Alerts About Us ... Thursday, 05 July 2012 Last Update: 12:15am... ( UNESCO) declared Lenggong Valley in Hulu Perak as a world heritage site, ...
www.themalaysianinsider.com/.../unesco-declares-lenggong-v...
Timbuktu tomb destroyers pulverise Islam's history
Four dead after Germany hostage incident Tue, Jul 3 2012 .... UNESCO's World Heritage Committee called on the agency's director general, Irina Bokova, who ...
www.reuters.com/.../uk-mali-crisis-timbuktu-idUSLNE86202...
Palestinians seek more UNESCO site recognitions - World News ...
The Associated Press. Tuesday, Jul. 03, 2012 Tuesday, Jul. 03, 2012 ...religious West Bank sites recognized by UNESCO as endangered WorldHeritage sites.
www.modbee.com/2012/.../palestinians-seek-more-unesco.htm...
Carmel Caves Voted a UNESCO World Heritage Site | JewishPress
The announcement comes on the heels of UNESCO's decision last week to name the ... Tuesday, July 3, 2012 - 13 Tamuz 5772 .... Jewish Press NewsBriefs ...
www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/carmel-caves...a.../02/
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