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US forces seize oil tanker off Venezuela coast (www.theguardian.com)
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The US president confirmed the operation on Wednesday, saying: “We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela – a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever seized actually.”

“It was seized for a very good reason,” Trump added, declining to say who owned the vessel.

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US forces seize oil tanker off Venezuela coast (www.theguardian.com)
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US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s four-month pressure campaign against the South American country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro.