U.S. forces, led by the Coast Guard, are now chasing a third oil tanker near Venezuela, sharply escalating a high-stakes crackdown aimed at the country’s sanctioned crude trade. The Coast Guard is ...

Oil exports, the country’s financial lifeblood, have plummeted after the United States took action against three ships that have been used to carry its crude. By Anatoly Kurmanaev and Rebecca F.

NEW YORK, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Oil prices settled higher on Monday after the U.S. Coast Guard tried to intercept an oil tanker in international waters near Venezuela a day earlier, and Ukraine damaged ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is still pursuing a sanctioned oil tanker in international waters, a U.S. official told CBS News on Monday, as the Trump administration appeared to intensify its targeting of oil ...

China blasted the administration of President Donald Trump on Monday over its seizure of another oil tanker as the United States continues its military blockade of the Bolivarian Republic. The U.S.

Experts disagreed on whether the seizure of land and assets, on the other hand, was legal, as an international tribunal determined Venezuela had not paid proper compensation to at least one affected ...

The US is still in pursuit of a third oil tanker near Venezuela, according to a US official, as President Donald Trump intensifies an oil blockade on Nicolás Maduro’s government. The Bella 1 tanker, a ...

Cuba’s deepening economic collapse could soon tip into outright breakdown as U.S. pressure on Venezuela threatens to choke off the oil lifeline that has long kept the island afloat, The Wall Street ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Saturday confirmed that the United States Coast Guard“apprehended” an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast. “In a pre-dawn action early this morning on Dec.

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said a vessel had been “apprehended.” It was the second action this month against a tanker carrying Venezuelan oil. By Nicholas Nehamas Anatoly Kurmanaev ...

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