The city in southeastern Turkey resounds with music, food and culture — and echoes with more than 11,000 years of human history.
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Egypt’s Government Is Bulldozing the City of the Dead
The dead are being exhumed and the living are being evicted to make way for President Sisi’s Pharaonic fantasies.
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Dependence on Tech Caused ‘Staggering’ Education Inequality, U.N. Agency Says
Heavy reliance on online remote learning during the pandemic drew attention away from more equitable ways of teaching children at home, a UNESCO report says.
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Workers Plow Through Great Wall of China, Leaving a Hole
The pair, a 38-year-old-man and 55-year-old woman, used an excavator to widen an existing gap and make a shortcut, the authorities said.
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Jill Biden Takes the 2024 Campaign to Paris in Another Overseas Appeal
As the United States officially rejoined UNESCO, the first lady delivered what sounded like a campaign message, saying the president had rebuilt bonds that frayed under his predecessor.