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  "id": 6332381,
  "title": "Trump’s Venezuela oil deal: why China can wait and watch",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/trumps-venezuela-oil-deal-why-china-can-wait-and-watch-6332381",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-08T21:30:06.000Z",
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    "name": "South China Morning Post",
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    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3366521/trumps-venezuela-oil-deal-why-china-can-wait-and-watch"
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  "account": null,
  "summary": "When US President Donald Trump announced on August 28 that the United States had secured majority control over some 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil through a private company, the North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP), he called it “the biggest oil deal in history”. The White House fact sheet provided the details: NABEP’s 100-year concessions on 17 oilfields with 65 billion barrels of…",
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        "published": "2026-09-08T20:40:44.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Reuters Business via SCMP",
        "title": "Trump’s Venezuela oil deal: why China can wait and watch",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/trumps-venezuela-oil-deal-why-china-can-wait-and-watch",
        "published": "2026-09-08T21:30:06.000Z"
      },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}