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Charity urges donor support to avert oil spill off Yemen

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The U.N. still has to persuade all donors to pay up on pledges for the first, $75 million phase of the emergency removal operation. The rusting FSO Safer supertanker holds some four times the estimated amount of oil released in the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill. Funding delays and Yemen's seven-year war have stymied international efforts to start addressing the threat.

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Charity urges donor support to avert oil spill off Yemen

CAIRO (AP) — An international charity on Wednesday urged global donors to pay up on pledges to remove oil from a long-stranded and rusting supertanker off Yemen to avert an explosion or leak that could wreak environmental and economic disaster.

2 years ago·United States

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Charity urges donor support to avert oil spill off Yemen

An international charity has urged global donors to pay up on pledges to remove oil from a long-stranded and rusting supertanker off Yemen to avert an explosion or leak that could wreak environmental and economic disaster

2 years ago·United States

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The Washington Post

Charity urges donor support to avert oil spill off Yemen

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Arab News

Charity urges donor support to avert oil spill off Yemen

CAIRO: An international charity on Wednesday urged global donors to pay up on pledges to remove oil from a long-stranded and rusting supertanker off Yemen to avert an explosion or leak that could wreak environmental and economic disaster.The call by Save the Children has come as the Netherlands, US and Germany are scheduled Wednesday to announce “the successful funding of the

2 years ago·Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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San Diego Union Tribune

Charity urges donor support to avert oil spill off Yemen

2 years ago·San Diego, United States

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Wral News

UN: Pledge goal reached for averting oil disaster off Yemen

The United Nations said Monday it has finally reached a pledging goal to raise money to remove 1 million barrels of oil from a long-stranded and rusting oil supertanker off Yemen, moving closer toward averting an explosion or leak that could wreak environmental and economic disaster.

2 years ago·Raleigh, United States

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