Trinidad and Tobago secures US permission to negotiate gas deal with neighboring Venezuela

The U.S. has granted Trinidad and Tobago permission to negotiate a gas deal with neighboring Venezuela without facing any U.S. sanctions, the Caribbean nation's attorney general said Thursday.

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