{"id":85393,"date":"2026-01-08T14:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/us-seizes-two-shadow-fleet-tankers-linked-to-venezuelan-oil-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:44:16","slug":"us-seizes-two-shadow-fleet-tankers-linked-to-venezuelan-oil-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/us-seizes-two-shadow-fleet-tankers-linked-to-venezuelan-oil-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"US seizes two &#8216;shadow fleet&#8217; tankers linked to Venezuelan oil | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States says it has seized two tankers linked to Venezuelan oil exports in &#8220;back-to-back&#8221; operations in the North <!--more--> Atlantic and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>US forces boarded the Russian-flagged Marinera after a pursuit lasting almost two weeks as it travelled through the waters between Iceland and Scotland. The UK Royal Navy gave logistical support by air and sea.<\/p>\n<p>A second tanker &#8211; the M\/T Sophia &#8211; was accused by the US of &#8220;conducting illicit activities&#8221; and boarded in the Caribbean.<\/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>#Venezuela #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States says it has seized two tankers linked to Venezuelan oil exports in &#8220;back-to-back&#8221; operations in the North<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85409,"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-85393","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\/85393","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=85393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}