No alternative to risky oil tanker salvage in Yemen, UN says ...Kuwait

Transferring more than a million barrels of oil from an abandoned tanker anchored off the shore of Yemen comes with "palpable risks" - but doing nothing could lead to a devastating oil spill, a senior UN official said Wednesday. "If something were to go wrong, indeed, many questions will be asked," said Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Development Program, which is in charge of salvage of the FSO Safer, underway since Tuesday. But "walking away is not an option," he told AFP in an interview. The 47-year-old ship is carrying four times as much oil as that which spilled in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster off Alaska, one of the world's worst ecological catastroph

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