President Donald Trump has announced that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela amid mounting tensions with the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

It is the Trump administration’s latest push to increase pressure on Mr Maduro, who has been charged with narcoterrorism in the United States.

Mr Trump told reporters at the White House: “We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized, actually.”

The President also said “other things are happening,” but did not offer additional details, saying he would speak more about it later.

The seizure was carried led by the US Coast Guard and supported by the Navy, according to a US official.

A day earlier, the US military flew a pair of fighter

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