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Oil tanker emerges as a new flashpoint between Washington and Moscow

U.S. seizes Russian-flagged oil tanker that fled blockade of Venezuela

Another sanctioned tanker, the M/T Sophia, was seized for "conducting illicit activities in the Caribbean Sea," U.S. officials said.