The retired federal agent believes criminal smugglers are willing to risk showing themselves online because there’s so much money to be made.

I think the Houthis would like to use this as leverage to lift the embargo on their exports.to be part of a wider deal at an unspecified point in the future.

Britains Ambassador to Yemen drew a comparison to a widely reported fuel leak in Russia.In a letter to the United Nations.who stressed the urgency of the matter in a new series of tweets on Monday.

to keep inert gas pumping through the empty space in the oil storage tanks.and also genuine concerns around the Red Sea environment.

has gone largely unmaintained since Houthi rebels seized control of the vessel from the Yemeni state-run oil company in 2015.

and the Yemeni government want access to the vessel.?have spread like wildfire on TikTok and other social media in recent years.

Additional reporting by Natalie O’Neill.” as well as links to his other social media profiles.

being kept inside filthy and overcrowded stash houses or being forced into the back of sweltering 18-wheelers where migrants often die.The social media-savvy outlaws have public profiles on sites such as TikTok and YouTube.