Few words in international politics carry more legal and emotional weight than “blockade.” It evokes warships sealing ports, neutral vessels turned back at gunpoint, belligerents asserting control ...

Few words in international politics carry more legal and emotional weight than “blockade.” It evokes warships sealing ports, neutral vessels turned back at gunpoint, belligerents asserting control ...

Chinese oil tankers are pressing ahead with Venezuela-linked voyages despite a U.S. blockade and an escalating campaign of tanker seizures. Two Chinese-flagged VLCCs are operating near Venezuelan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. US forces have launched dozens of deadly air strikes on boats that Washington alleges were transporting drugs (Miguel J. Rodriguez ...

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Rather than heralding an invasion, the blockade is likely a show of force designed to underscore the seriousness of the administration’s pivot to the Western Hemisphere. On December 10, the United ...

Oil prices jumped about 3% after Trump's threatened blockade. Oil prices jumped about 3% after President Donald Trump this week threatened to blockade all sanctioned oil tankers traveling in and out ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s “blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers off Venezuela’s coast is raising new questions about the legality of his military campaign in Latin America, while ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s “blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers off Venezuela’s coast is raising new questions about the legality of his military campaign in Latin America, while ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. President Donald Trump listens before he signs an ...

Tanker Blockade Spurs New Legal Questions on Venezuela Campaign The crude oil tanker Skipper, recently seized by the US off the coast of Venezuela, traveling in the southern Caribbean Sea on Dec. 12.