The 193 member states of the United Nations' cultural agency are expected to back the United States' return to the organisation almost five years after then-President Donald Trump withdrew over accusations of anti-Israel bias and mismanagement. The Paris-based agency, founded in the ashes of World War II to protect humanity's common cultural inheritance, was thrown into turmoil after the US - which provided a fifth of its funding - pulled out. The US State Department indicated in a letter dated on 8 June that it wanted to rejoin the organisation in July as a full member and that it intended...