President Donald Trump on Wednesday confirmed that the US has taken control of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.

U.S. forces seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, an action Donald Trump described as the “largest one ever seized.”

The seized tanker, identified in US media as the "Skipper", reportedly departed Venezuela around 2 December with about 2 million barrels of heavy crude, roughly half of it belonging to a Cuban state-r...