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The digital front line: Safeguarding Holocaust memory in the age of AI - opinion

While AI offers tools for preservation, it has simultaneously become a sophisticated engine for insidious forms of digital denial that threatens to rewrite the past in real time.

Soon, memory of the Holocaust will rely not on firsthand accounts but on documentation, interpretation, and increasing technological forms of representation.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaks during the Italy–Germany Business Forum at the Grand Hotel Parco dei Principi, in Rome, Italy, January 23, 2026.

Germany establishes diplomatic ties with Niue, signaling the importance of the Pacific - opinion

The Ibrahimi mosque or the Tomb of the Patriarchs, in the West Bank city of Hebron, July 3, 2024.

Israel barred Islamic officials from entering Ibrahimi Mosque, Palestinians claim

Exterior architecture of the Renaissance castle in the village of Grignan in the Drome department of France on September 23, 2025.

A slow journey through France’s Loire Valley: Chateaux, wine, and quiet beauty


ORT launches Ghanaian computer courses for girls, with support of UNESCO

Thanks to the support of UNESCO, Nduom Group and Coconut Grove Hotel, not only will ORT be able to educate these young girls, but the local library will also get new computers.

The library in Elmina, Ghana, will function as a new service of STEM education thanks to ORT

UNESCO chief set for new term, eyes US return - official

The official told Reuters that the signals from the new U.S. administration were positive and that the objective was to make progress on the issue over the coming months.

A general view of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris

Archaeologists uncover ancient ceremonial carriage near Pompeii

Massimo Osanna, the outgoing director of the Pompeii archaeological site, said the carriage was the first of its kind discovered in the area.

A partial view of the ancient archaeological site of Pompeii is pictured in front of Mount Vesuvius April 17, 2014

Poorer nations begin slicing educational funding amid coronavirus

For comparison, before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, wealthier countries had been spending an average of $8,500 per child compared to $48 in lower income countries.

A teacher walks in a classroom with students keeping social distancing in a public school, after the reactivation of face-to-face classes, amidst an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Bogota, Colombia February 15, 2021

Int'l Mother Tongue Day finds most Middle Eastern children multilingual

Speaking one language in school and speak another at home can be a "big problem" but new approaches could help, expert says.

Students attend class in the Nafit 1, a modern school built with the aid of a grant from Kuwait, in Basra, southeast of Baghdad November 2, 2014. A country that used to have one of the finest education systems in the Middle East is struggling to provide school students with the basic opportunity to

Hundreds of dead pelicans in Senegal test positive for H5N1 bird flu

Pelicans gather at the Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary in Senegal, January 2020, in this still image obtained from social media video. Instagram/@David.W.Nystrom/via REUTERS

Palestinians, Jordan accuse Israel of ‘Judaizing’ Western Wall Plaza

The PA Foreign Ministry called on the United Nations Security Council to “halt the crimes of the Israeli occupation forces against al-Aqsa Mosque.”

A general view of Jerusalem's Old City shows the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in the foreground as the Dome of the Rock, located on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, is seen in the background.

The Olive Tree Road of Israel: Israel's secret UNESCO treasure

SINCE THE inauguration of the Road and the presentation of its founding Charter and map, local olive routes were established along the four paths of the Olive Tree Road.


Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii

Traces of nearly 2,000-year-old food were found in some of the deep terra cotta jars containing hot food which the shopkeeper lowered into a counter with circular holes.

Archaeologists discover ancient 'Street Food Shop' - Pompeii

UNESCO announces couscous a world cultural heritage

This new prestigious status of couscous reflects the cultural cooperation and deep connection between the four countries that share its heritage: Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia.

Moroccan couscous soup with green fava beans