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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Raises Funds to Salvage the Safer Tanker

The Safer tanker. File photo

The United Nations said Wednesday it has raised the $75 million necessary to salvage the Safer, a stricken tanker off Yemen, an emergency operation aimed at averting a disastrous Red Sea oil spill -- and a potential $20 billion cleanup.

The decaying, long used as a floating storage platform and now, has not been serviced since Yemen plunged into civil war more than seven years ago.

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