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from seoul, here s yuna ku. another devastating summer in south korea. days of torrential rain have caused landslides, flash flooding and a considerable loss of life and livelihoods. in the city of cheongiu rescuers are trying to reach people trapped in their vehicles in a flooded tunnel after water poured into the underpass so quickly they could not escape. 15 vehicles and dozens of people are known to be trapped inside. translation: we are trying our best right now but it s difficult because the site is covered in mud. relatives of those who are still missing anxiously await news. in a video link with officials, the president called for the mobilisation of the military and police to prevent further casualties. experts point out that the weather has become increasingly unpredictable and extreme. in the last few days, most of the concerns were focused on rescue efforts but there have been growing concerns and calls on government to be better prepared of ill weather in this ....
Mounting maritime security threats off Yemen's coast have stalled work on scrapping a decrepit oil tanker, officials have told AFP, jeopardising a rare success story in the war-torn country.- Yemen's rival authorities in Sanaa and Aden are at odds over who owns the oil that was on the Safer as well as the new tanker that now holds it, the MT-Yemen. ....
Most of the oil on board a rusting supertanker off war-torn Yemen has been moved to a replacement vessel in a bid to avert a catastrophic spill, the United Nations has said."More than half the oil aboard the decaying FSO Safer has been transferred to the replacement vessel Yemen in the past seven days," the UN resident coordinator for Yemen, David Gressly, said on social media on Tuesday. ....
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has started implementing a project to prevent a massive oil spill from a supertanker off Yemen's Red Sea coast with the removal of more than 1 million barrels of oil from the decaying vessel. ....