US, Israel exit UN cultural agency, claiming bias
World NewsJan 2, 2019
PARIS (AP) - The United States and Israel officially quit the UN's educational, scientific and cultural agency at the stroke of midnight, the culmination of a process triggered more than a year ago amid concerns that the organization fosters anti-Israel bias.The withdrawal is mainly procedural yet serves a new blow to UNESCO, co-founded by the US after World War II to foster peace.The Trump administration filed its notice to withdraw in October 2017 and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu