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The US will not "stand by and watch sanctioned vessels sail the seas", the White House has warned, after American forces seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.

An oil tanker seized by the US off the Venezuelan coast on Wednesday spent years trying to sail the seas unnoticed.

Donald Trump wants you to know that there is one leading reason why he is bearing down militarily on Venezuela: drugs.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the US has offered to create a "free economic zone" in the contested Donbas region of eastern Ukraine in a bid to push a peace deal over the line.

Venezuela's Nobel Peace Prize winning opposition leader has said her country has "has already been invaded", when asked whether she would support a US invasion.

Some details have emerged about Maria Corina Machado's daring escape from Venezuela.

Ukrainian children abducted by Russia have been sent to North Korea for "political indoctrination", human rights campaigners have warned.

A man has been arrested after police seized 38kg of illegal frozen bushmeat including pangolins, cane rats and porcupines, the food safety watchdog has said.

The pictures are striking - US forces sliding down ropes on to the deck of an oil tanker in the Caribbean.

Tens of thousands of people have been told to evacuate homes in Washington State, northwest America, to escape "catastrophic", life-threatening, floods.