Pentagon tracked sanctioned Veronica III from Caribbean Sea after it left Venezuela on day Maduro was captured
US military forces boarded another sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the vessel from the Caribbean Sea in an effort to target illicit oil connected to Venezuela, the Pentagon said on Sunday.
Venezuela had faced US sanctions on its oil for several years, relying on a shadow fleet of falsely flagged tankers to smuggle crude into global supply chains. President Donald Trump ordered a quarantine of sanctioned tankers in December to pressure then president NicolĂĄs Maduro before Maduro was apprehended in January during an American military operation.
Continue reading...Precipitation not perspiration was the order of the day here, as the rain hammered down on the banks of a bloated River Thames and Sunderland made it to the FA Cup fifth round without having to break a sweat.
Habib Diarraâs first-half penalty secured victory for RĂ©gis Le Brisâs visitors but the margin flattered Oxford who put up the meekest of fights.
Continue reading...Kaja Kallas says other countries âlook up to usâ and rejects idea Europe faces âcivilisational erasureâ
The EUâs foreign policy chief denied claims levelled by the US that Europe was facing civilisational erasure, rejecting what she condemned as âfashionable euro-bashingâ by Washington.
Kaja Kallas also insisted the US was discovering that it could not settle the war in Ukraine without Europeâs involvement and consent.
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