‘Tracked and hunted’: US forces board oil tanker in Indian Ocean after pursuit

US military forces boarded a sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the ship from the Caribbean Sea as part of an oil quarantine meant to squeeze Venezuela, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday. Venezuela had faced US sanctions on its oil and relied on a shadow fleet of falsely flagged tankers to smuggle crude into global supply chains. Following the US raid to apprehend then-president Nicolas Maduro in early January, several tankers fled the Venezuelan coast, including...