US to seize oil from tanker captured near Venezuela

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The White House has said that the Trump administration intends to seize the oil cargo aboard a tanker captured off the coast of Venezuela, escalating tensions with Caracas at a moment of sharp regional confrontation. Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt defended the seizure, calling the vessel a "sanctioned shadow vessel" allegedly used to transport black-market oil tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. "The