© UPU Fifteen-year-old Reyyan Demiriz from Türkiye (centre), has taken first prize in the 54th International Letter-Writing Competition for Young People, organised by the Universal Postal Union. Fifteen-year-old Reyyan Demiriz from Türkiye has been awarded first prize in a…
Climate Activists Rally on German Island Against North Sea Drilling
An aerial view taken with a drone shows “STOP GAS” written in red letters in the sand on Borkum beach. Activists from “Fridays for Future” demonstrate on Borkum against gas drilling off Borkum. Credit: Lars Penning/dpa Climate activists from…
Bavaria’s Fairytale Castles Added to UNESCO World Heritage List
Albert Fueracker (L-R), Bavarian Minister of Finance, Markus Soeder, Prime Minister of Bavaria, and Markus Blume, Bavarian Minister of Science and the Arts, stand in Neuschwanstein Castle, in King Ludwig II’s bedroom. The official occasion of the appointment is the…
UNESCO designates Germany’s Schwerin Castle as a World Heritage Site
The UN’s World Heritage Committee said on Saturday that it has designated the Schwerin Residence Ensemble in the north-eastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as a World Heritage Site. The ensemble includes Schwerin Castle and parts of the historic city centre,…
Huawei and UNESCO Expand Opens Schools Project to New Countries
The second phase will run from 2024 to 2027 in Egypt, Brazil, and Thailand UNESCO and Huawei yesterday launched Phase II of the Technology-Enabled Open Schools for All System (TeOSS) project at the UNESCO Digital Futures of Education Seminar,…
Nearly half of world’s terror victims are African, with organised crime increasingly entrenched
The vast Sahel region in particular has become home to some of the most active and deadly terrorist groups