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US Dumps UN Cultural Agency

The US State Department says it's leaving UNESCO because of what it called continuing anti-Israel bias.

The US State Department says it's leaving the UN's cultural agency, UNESCO, because of what it called continuing anti-Israel bias, as well as concern over mounting arrears and the need for fundamental reform. Also: rival Palestinian factions call an end to hostilities, an American woman and her family are freed after being held for five years by the Taliban, and the international language of babies.

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