Two survivors are being held aboard a US Navy ship in the Caribbean after a targeted strike killed two others on their vessel, the first survivors of a series of US attacks on alleged "narcoterrorist" boats off Venezuela. President Donald Trump, sitting beside Secretary of State Marco Rubio during talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the strike hit a drug-carrying submarine; Reuters reported Navy helicopters rescued the pair. The operation is believed to be the sixth such attack amid a US military buildup and covert operations, drawing legal questions and a Venezuelan appeal to the UN Security Council.

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