UN Security Council members have underscored the need to maintain a decades-old status quo at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds after the recent Israeli desecration of the holy site. The move was prompted on Thursday after a contentious visit by far-right Israeli minister Itamar ...
Western countries have failed to isolate Russia in UNESCO and their policy has worked to the detriment of the organization itself, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday. “The West has failed to isolate, or, as they put it, cancel Russia in UNESCO. The overwhelming majority of states refused ...