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UN to launch $144 mln appeal to offload Yemen oil tanker
The United Nations will launch a $144 million appeal on Wednesday for an operation to offload a million barrels of crude oil from a tanker stranded off the coast of war-torn Yemen for years which threatens a major environmental disaster. David Gressly, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, said he hoped a donors conference held with the support of Netherlands in the Hague would quickly mobilise funds to avert a catastrophe on the Red Sea coast and its region. He told Reuters the amount they were looking to raise was low "compared to the potential impact of a spill that would be catastrophic. It would cost $20 billion to clean it up." The Safer has be

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