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The US says it has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela
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“We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large one… the largest one ever seized actually”, US President Donald Trump told reporters at a White House event
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US Attorney General Pam Bondi says the tanker has been sanctioned for many yearsdue to its “involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organisations”
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She posted a clip on social media which appears to show US troops boarding the vessel via helicopter
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Venezuela’s government has responded by accusing the US of “theft” and “international piracy”, and has previously said it believes the US is actually trying to depose its President Nicolás Maduro
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Washington has been building its military presence around the region in recent weeks, in an operation it says is to combat drug trafficking
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