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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>World Heritage sites participate in Earth Hour</title>
         <description><![CDATA[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, 31 March 2012, from 8:30 to 9:30pm local time.&amp;nbsp;The lights will also be switched off at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France.
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova says, &quot;As a leading advocate  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/861</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Twenty-two new sites inscribed on UNESCO&apos;s World Heritage List, and one deleted during Committee meeting in Christchurch</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Christchurch, New Zealand, 29 June - The World Heritage Committee inscribed 22 new sites on UNESCO&amp;#39;s World Heritage List during its ongoing session in Christchurch. The new inscriptions include 16 cultural, five natural and one mixed, cultural and natural property. In a decision unprecedented in the history of UNESCO&amp;#39;s Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, the Committee deleted one property, the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, from the List because  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/365</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Bosnian Bridge among five new sites inscribed on UNESCO&apos;s World Heritage List this evening</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Christchurch, New Zealand, 28 June - The World Heritage Committee on Thursday evening inscribed another five sites on UNESCO&amp;#39;s World Heritage List: Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge of Višegrad (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Rideau Canal (Canada), Bordeaux, Port of the Moon (France), and the Old Town of Corfu (Greece), and Lavaux, vineyard terraces (Switzerland).The Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge of Višegrad across the Drina River in the east of Bosnia and Herzegovina was built at the end of the  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/361</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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