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The Ark of Return, the winning design of an international competition for the Permanent Memorial in Honour of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade was unveiled by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki moon at a ceremony at UN Headquarters.

The mission organized with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and local authorities found that while the buildings were not badly damaged, 600 of the Museum’s collection of 1080 artefacts were missing (see Inventory from the Mallawi National Museum).

Lithuania's presidency of the EU Council provides an occasion for Litvaks to gather on the narrow streets of the Old Town of Vilnius. The contribution of Litvaks – Jews with roots in the Grand Duchy and their descendants – to the culture of both Lithuania and the world is outstanding. Did you know that both the cellist Jascha Heifetz and the artist Samuel Bak were born in Vilnius, and that sculptor Jacques Lipchitz was born in Druskininkai? Canadian poet and singer Leonard Cohen, iconic U.S. musician Bob Dylan, and Philip Glass, perhaps the most famous avant-garde minimalist composer of the twentieth century, can also in some sense be referred to as Litvaks because their ancestors came from Lithuanian Jewish families.

The EP’s foreign affairs committee has called on the Muslim Brotherhood to return to the negotiation table and give up violence. The committee held a special meeting on 28 August, during which members debated how to get the troubled country back on the track to democracy.

UNESCO / Professor Maamoun Abdul Karim,
The Al-Omari Mosque

The European Commission and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) agreed to extend their cooperation in strengthening public media in the countries of the European Neighbourhood.

China’s official media recently published a series of articles warning against the establishment of a Western-style constitution-based political system. Analysts said this is a reaction to growing public demand for a political system that puts the Communist Party under the rule of law, not above it.

Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova.

Screen Australia announced over $3.2 million investment in 10 documentaries, generating almost $10 million in production.