The opening ceremony of this year's session of the World heritage committee was held on 30 June at the Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku, marking the start of the Committee's work, scheduled to continue until 10 July. UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay welcomed the enthusiasm for World Heritage and "its exceptional ability to bring people together.” She urged "respect for the spirit of the World Heritage Convention, which positions heritage as a force for unity ......

The World heritage committee will examine 36 nominations for inscription on UNESCO's World Heritage List during its 43rd session, which will take place in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, from 30 June to 10 July under the chair of Abulfas Garayev, Minister of Culture of Azerbaijan. The Committee will furthermore examine the state of conservation of 166 sites already inscribed on the World Heritage List, 54 of which also figure on the List of World Heritage in ......

The UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the UNESCO Cluster Office in Tehran, in cooperation with the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO and the Iranian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts, are organizing the 6th meeting of the Coordinating Committee of the Serial Transnational World Heritage Nomination of the Silk Roads from 23 to 26 September 2019 in Hamedan, Iran.  The UNESCO/Japan Funds-in-Trust (FiT) project "Support for Silk Roads World Heritage Sites in ......

“At first, we weren’t sure if it was something that people were really interested in.” World of Warcraft: Classic launches next August 26, bringing the MMORPG’s 2006 roots screaming into 2019. Chatting with lead software engineer Ryan Birmingham and senior software engineer Omar Gonzales ahead of launch, Birmingham explained Blizzard’s uncertainty at even kicking off […] The post World of Warcraft: Classic interview – restoring legacy bugs, and the potential for PvP and Raid updates appeared first on VG247....

Darewise Entertainment has just revealed that they’re working on a new and ambitious persistent open-world MMO codenamed Project C. The Paris-based development studio is currently looking for playtesters to test-drive their flagship game for the duration of the pre-Alpha phase. “Project C is being developed to give gamers a persistent open-world multiplayer experience where they can team up to join [...] The post Darewise Entertainment Reveals Open World MMO ‘Project C’, Pre-Alpha Signups Now Open appeared first on MMOs.com....

Mookie Betts scored the go-ahead run and later hit a home run as the Los Angeles Dodgers won their first World Series title since 1988 with a 3-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 6...

Democrats to boycott Senate judiciary committee vote on BarrettTrump and Biden to have second TV debate in NashvilleObama returns to campaign trail for BidenFBI warns Russia and Iran obtained US voter dataSign up for Fight to Vote – our weekly US election newsletter 12.57pm BST CNN have a piece this morning looking at how the two major parties are preparing their respective armies of ‘poll watchers’ for election day.Republicans and Democrats are signing up tens of thousands of people to be poll watchers across the country, in an effort to act as the backbone for the campaigns’ sprawling legal operations, keeping a close eye for any anomalies.Through meetings and virtual trainings, each party is meticulously training their poll watchers to document, record and quickly pass along any important incidents they witness to their respective legal teams, which could later be used as evidence in legal disputes.Poll watchers are expected to alert the campaigns quickly to problems like long lines, broken voter machines or problems with voter rolls – issues that are likely to pop up and often lead to quick legal action to allow polling places to stay open later than scheduled. They also can help campaigns’ get-out-the-vote operation by alerting them to areas where the number of voters is low.Democrats, have raised alarms at Trump’s rhetoric, saying at the first debate that his supporters should “go to the polls and watch very carefully.” Local election officials warned the comments sounded more like voter intimidation than just poll watching, and they’re bracing for potential conflict on election day. In many states, official poll watching operations are carefully regulated, including limiting the number of watchers per campaign, but those rules typically don’t go beyond a certain distance from the polls. 12.50pm BST The TASS news agency in Russia has cited Edward Snowden’s lawyer Anatoly Kucherena saying that Russia has granted the US whistleblower permanent residency rights.Snowden flew to Russia from Hong Kong in June 2013. At first, because his US passport had been cancelled, authorities compelled him to stay in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport. After 39 days he was allowed to leave, and has since been relying on repeatedly extended temporary asylum to stay in the country. Continue reading......

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The political machine in McMinn County, Tennessee, had spent Election Day intimidating voters, encouraging fraud and holding poll watchers at gunpoint. That’s when the GIs decided to rebel....