Washington, Jan. 7 -- Hours after the US President Donald Trump announced that 30-50 million barrels of oil transferred by the interim Venezuelan government will be sold by the US at market rates, his renewed threat to annexe Greenland has riled NATO and Western nations, with some of the leading powers such as Germany, France, UK warning him against the move.

Venezuela's interim government will transfer between 30 and 50 million barrels of sanctioned oil which will be sold at market rates, Trump announced within days of the dramatic arrest and extraction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 3 in a long-haul military operation in Caracas. The capture followed a series of strikes on boats allegedly smuggling drugs to America ove...