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U.N. chief urges Yemen's Houthis to grant access to decaying oil tanker

Manama

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Yemen’s Houthi group to allow an assessment team to travel to a decaying oil tanker that is threatening to spill 1.1 million barrels of crude oil off the war-torn country’s coastm.
 
More than a month ago Houthi officials said they would agree to allow a U.N. mission to conduct a technical assessment and whatever initial repairs might be feasible on the Safer tanker. But the United Nations is still waiting for formal authorization.