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Dutch officials are reporting that they are making an additional financial contribution to the UN’s effort to remediate the danger from the FSO Safer...

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Liz Truss announces scheme for households and businesses to deal with energy costs

UN raises alarm on Red Sea oil tanker time-bomb

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The UN appealed Tuesday for the last $14 million needed to try and prevent a stricken oil tanker from triggering a disaster off Yemen that could cost $20

UN appeals for $14 million needed to address the issue, says if the FSO Safer breaks up, it could unleash a catastrophic spill costing up to $20 billion to clean up

The UN appealed Tuesday for the last $14 million needed to try and prevent a stricken oil tanker from triggering a disaster off Yemen that could cost $20 billion to clean up.The decaying 45-year-old FSO Safer, long used as a floating storage platform and now abandoned off the rebel-held Yemeni port of Hodeida, has not been serviced since Yemen was plunged into civil war more than seven years ago. If it breaks up, it could unleash a potentially catastrophic spill in the Red Sea.

Time is running out to avert a preventable catastrophe involving the FSO Safer, one which would have devastating consequences for Yemen

Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities