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American forces have been stalking the Marinera, a Russian-flagged tanker bound for Venezuela, for weeks. Spooked, the ship turned for Europe, with a Russian submarine dispatched to protect it. Today American forces seized the vessel, along with another tanker linked to Venezuela. The episode
holds a lesson for the regime in Caracas.
And I’m starting to tire of friends and colleagues raving about their holidays to Japan. (“Sashimi just doesn’t taste as fresh here!”) It turns out lots of Japanese feel similarly. But a growing hostility to tourists and foreign workers threatens to
worsen the country’s problems.
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