Without U.N. intervention, the tanker could have released as much as four times the oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez in 1989.
After months of preparation, an international team began removing up to 1.14 million barrels of crude oil from the decaying F.S.O. Safer supertanker off Yemen's Red Sea coast in a bid to prevent an environmental catastrophe.
The U.N.-led project entails pumping oil from the F.S.O. Safer, which has been at risk of breaking up or exploding, onto a replacement vessel dubbed the MOST Yemen, officials said on Tuesday. The ship-to-ship oil transfer is expected to last 19 days.
The Court of Justice of the European Union's rulings in two landmark cases will cost the tech giants billions of euros.
Multinational ITER fusion energy project took delivery of massive toroidal field coils from Japan and Europe.
A U.N. staff survey finds 80% of respondents believe harmful information endangers communities.
South Korea pushed to fight malicious cyber operations like those run by North Korea to fund its weapons program.
The U.N. chief calls on all nations to adopt a newer measure for phasing out powerful climate-warming chemicals.
The original target for the campaign was 640,000 children, which may have been an overestimate due to the war.
Global cooperation on health, defense, climate change and more would be at risk under a second Trump presidency.
A U.N.-led group says the world won't be able to get to net-zero emissions without first cleaning up the mining business.
