US seizes oil tanker sanctioned for transporting Russian oil

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The United States has seized another sanctioned tanker in an effort to control the flow of oil in and out of Venezuela.

The U.S. Coast Guard boarded the Olina tanker, the fifth vessel to be seized in recent days. The operation, part of Joint Task Force Southern Spear, was conducted early Friday in the Caribbean Sea, near Trinidad and Tobago.

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