PARIS (Reuters) – UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay was elected to a second four-year term as head of the United Nations' cultural agency on Tuesday after a vote of its 193 members.Azoulay was appointed in 2017 after a bitter campaign. Her mandate was to revive the organisation's fortunes after former U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew the United States over accusations of anti-Israel bias.The agency, founded in the ashes of World War Two to protect the common cultural inheritance of humanity, is best known for designating and protecting archaeological and heritage sites, from the Galapagos Islands to the tombs of Timbuktu.

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