A rusting oil tanker which has been moored off the coast of Yemen for five years could crack open at any moment, releasing around 1.2 million barrels of crude oil into the Red Sea, according to the UN. A spill would release about four times more oil than leaked off the coast of Alaska in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, one of the worst in history, further wreaking havoc on a country already beset by civil war and on the brink of famine.The FSO Safer, owned by a Yemeni oil and gas company, fell into the hands of Houthi rebels early in Yemen’s ongoing civil war and has been without...…A rusting oil tanker which has been moored off the coast of Yemen for five years could crack open at any moment, releasing around 1.2 million barrels of crude oil into the Red Sea, according to the UN. A spill would release about four times more oil than leaked off the coast of Alaska in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, one of the worst in history, further wreaking havoc on a country already beset by civil war and on the brink of famine.The FSO Safer, owned by a Yemeni oil and gas company, fell into the hands of Houthi rebels early in Yemen’s ongoing civil war and has been without...WW…
“We will ROC you. From Russia with love.” The video by the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova to cheer on “Russian Olympic Committee” (ROC) athletes sent to the Tokyo Olympic Games offers little space for ambiguity: the Russian government is claiming the team currently placing fourth in the medals table as Russia’s.Officially, they aren’t. There are 330 Russian athletes competing in Tokyo under the ROC banner because the Russian team was banned in 2019 from participating in all international sport, after Russia was found to have participated in...…“We will ROC you. From Russia with love.” The video by the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova to cheer on “Russian Olympic Committee” (ROC) athletes sent to the Tokyo Olympic Games offers little space for ambiguity: the Russian government is claiming the team currently placing fourth in the medals table as Russia’s.Officially, they aren’t. There are 330 Russian athletes competing in Tokyo under the ROC banner because the Russian team was banned in 2019 from participating in all international sport, after Russia was found to have participated in...WW…
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