US seizes tanker carrying Venezuelan oil in unprecedented escalation The US has seized an oil tanker carrying Venezuelan crude off the country's coast, President Donald Trump announced on December 10, in a move that sent oil prices higher and ratcheted up tensions between Washington and Caracas.

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