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What Trump Quitting UNESCO Means For 26 U.S. World Heritage Sites
UNESCO runs the influential World Heritage Sites program. There are 26 UNESCO World Heritage sites in the United States ...
What to Know About the U.S. Move to Withdraw From UNESCO
The Trump administration plans to pull out of the U.N. cultural agency, putting UNESCO back at the center of geopolitical ...
Trump orders US exit from UNESCO, reversing Biden-era reentry
By Tom Ozimek Contributing Writer The United States will withdraw from the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1d
The U.S. Is Withdrawing From UNESCO for the Third Time in the Agency’s 80-Year History
The country previously left the agency for two brief stints—once from 1984 to 2003 and again from 2017 to 2023. The newly ...
Nature1d
Researchers in dismay as US exits world science body UNESCO … again
The Trump administration plans the departure for the end of 2026 and criticizes the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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US to pull out of UNESCO as 'not in the national interest'
The United States will withdraw from UNESCO by the end of 2026, Washington said on Tuesday, just two years after rejoining ...
The US decision to leave UNESCO again puts a spotlight on what the agency does and why it matters
The decision to pull U.S. funding and participation from UNESCO will deal a blow to its work preserving cultural heritage ...
China reacts to Trump's UNESCO decision
"This is not what a major country should do," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said of Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from UNESCO.