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The United Nations on Friday welcomed the release of five of its security personnel in Yemen who had been held in captivity for more than a year.

The United Nations has announced the successful completion of the ship-to-ship transfer of over 1 million barrels of oil by Dutch group Boskalis, from the decaying FSO Safer tanker off Yemen, thus averting an environmental and humanitarian catastrophe.

The United Nations has announced the successful completion of the ship-to-ship transfer of over 1 million barrels of oil by Dutch group Boskalis, from the decaying FSO Safer tanker off Yemen, thus averting an environmental and humanitarian catastrophe.

The United Nations on Friday welcomed the release of five of its security personnel in Yemen who had been held in captivity for more than a year.

The transfer of more than a million barrels of oil from an aging tanker moored off the coast of war-torn Yemen has been completed, avoiding an environmental disaster, the United Nations said Friday. In a statement, Farhan Haq, the deputy spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said the operation had prevented a “monumental environmental and humanitarian catastrophe.” An international team began siphoning the oil from the dilapidated vessel known as FSO Safer on Jul...

On July 25, the UN announced beginning of transfer of some 1.1M barrels of crude oil from FSO Safer vessel.

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The oil posed risk of an environmental disaster if it was to spill or explode.

The transfer of more than a million barrels of oil from an aging tanker moored off the coast of war-torn Yemen has been completed, avoiding an environmental disaster, the United Nations said Friday.

The transfer of 1.1 million barrels of oil from an aging tanker moored off the coast of war-torn Yemen has been completed, avoiding an environmental disaster, […]