{"id":84859,"date":"2025-12-21T14:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T14:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/us-seizes-second-oil-tanker-off-venezuelas-coast-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T14:44:17","slug":"us-seizes-second-oil-tanker-off-venezuelas-coast-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/us-seizes-second-oil-tanker-off-venezuelas-coast-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"US seizes second oil tanker off Venezuela&#8217;s coast | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US has seized an oil tanker that had recently departed from Venezuela, according to the US Department of Homeland <!--more--> Security.<\/p>\n<p>It is the second time this month that an oil-carrying ship has been seized off the country&#8217;s coast.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he was ordering a &#8220;blockade&#8221; of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela has described the latest US move as &#8220;theft and kidnapping&#8221;. It has previously accused the Trump administration of trying to steal its resources.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#US #Venezuela #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has seized an oil tanker that had recently departed from Venezuela, according to the US Department of Homeland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}