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         <title>World Heritage sites participate in Earth Hour 2013</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Once again UNESCO will partner with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) for Earth Hour,&amp;nbsp;one of the world&apos;s largest and most well-known environmental campaigns in the world. UNESCO has invited World Heritage sites to participate in this initiative by switching off the lights on the night of Earth Hour: Saturday,&amp;nbsp;23 March 2013, from 8:30 to 9:30pm local time.&amp;nbsp;
The Earth Hour campaign began in 2007, and has grown each year. In 2011, 1.8 billion people participated in 5251 cities in 135  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/993</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Agreement signed for reconstruction of Kasubi Tombs, Uganda</title>
         <description><![CDATA[On 1st March 2013, UNESCO signed the Plan of Operation with the Government of Uganda for the project &amp;ldquo;Technical and financial assistance for the reconstruction of Muzibu-Azaala-Mpanga, architectural masterpiece of the Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi, Uganda, World Heritage property in Danger&amp;rdquo;, generously supported through the Japanese Funds-in-Trust. Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2001, the site includes four royal tombs within the Muzibu-Azaala-Mpanga, the main  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/991</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Syria: The Director-General of UNESCO Appeals to Stop Violence and to Protect the World Heritage City of Aleppo</title>
         <description><![CDATA[For more than a year now, I have been expressing on behalf of UNESCO my deep concern about the dramatic humanitarian situation in Syria and the threats to the outstanding cultural heritage of the country, which bear testimony to its history and to its cultural identity. I have called upon all those involved in the conflict to ensure the respect and protection of this heritage.
The tragedy has reached new heights with the growing and serious destruction to the World Heritage City of Aleppo.  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/990</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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