United States federal prosecutors are trying to seize four oil tankers sailing to Venezuela with gasoline supplied by Iran, the latest attempt to sever increasingly close trade ties between the two heavily sanctioned anti-American allies. The civil forfeiture lawsuit filed Wednesday night in the federal court of the District of …
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FILE PHOTO: USS Nitze, a Guided Missile Destroyer is pictured in New York Harbor, May 24, 2006. REUTERS / Peter Foley / File Photo / File Photo CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino on Wednesday called an incident this week in which a United States Navy ship sailed …
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The Iranian-flagged fuel tanker ‘Fortune’ is seen after it was docked at the El Palito refinery in Puerto Cabello, Carabobo state, Venezuela, on May 26, 2020. Anadolu Agency through Getty Images WASHINGTON – The Treasury Department on Wednesday imposed new sanctions on five Iranian ship captains who delivered gasoline to …
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United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gives a press conference on the deals with China and Iran, and on the fight against the coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19), in Washington, USA. USA, June 24, 2020. Mangel Ngan / Pool via REUTERS WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States imposed sanctions on …
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MEXICO CITY / SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil tankers transporting nearly two months of Venezuelan oil production are trapped at sea as world refineries avoid the nation’s crude to avoid falling under U.S. sanctions, according to sources at the industry, PDVSA documents and shipping data. Washington is tightening sanctions to reduce …
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