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Most of the oil on board a rusting supertanker off war-torn Yemen has been moved to a replacement vessel in a bid to avert a catastrophic spill, the United Nations has said. The transfer of 1.14 million barrels of Marib light crude from the 47-year-old FSO Safer to the new vessel started last week. "More than half the oil aboard the decaying FSO Safer has been transferred to the replacement vessel Yemen in the past seven days," the UN resident coordinator for Yemen, David Gressly, said on social media on Tuesday. ....
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas discussed on Monday the latest Palestinian developments amid the continued Israeli escalation in the occupied territories. They met in Egypt’s coastal resort city of el-Alamein. Abbas was on a three-day visit to Egypt where Palestinian factions were gathered for dialogue on various issues to end the division and restore Palestinian national unity. Sisi reiterated Cairo’s firm historic position in support of the Palestinian people. ....
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to Ethiopia to show his nation’s support for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government has put China’s relationship with Egypt to the test. ....