One sentence of background: the White House put out a fact sheet Monday night finally naming the company at the centre of Trump's Venezuela oil deal — NABEP, handed 100-year rights over 17 fields holding 65 billion barrels, with the Pentagon's investment office taking a 35% stake in its parent. Now the headlines, in ascending order of nerve. * The AP copy running on NPR: the White House "fills in some of the details." Al Jazeera: "White House unveils more details of Trump's Venezuela oil deal." Unveils — the verb of car shows and perfume launches, doing PR for a document about a foreign country's subsoil. And then Euronews: "Trump vows US will take 'all' of Venezuela's oil as deal details emerge." That's the only headline of the three built from what the man actually said on camera in the Oval Office, per Euronews's own story: the reserves were "unbelievable value that was sitting dormant," and the US is "going to be taking all of that. We're going to be taking that oil out." * Credit where due, because two days ago we roasted this exact outlet on this exact topic for quoting officials' numbers without a single question attached. Today's Euronews piece has grown teeth: it notes NABEP's owner has been investigated by US and European authorities (never charged, denies wrongdoing), that Exxon and Conoco still remember having their assets nationalised in 2007, that former US energy advisers are warning about political risk, and that the whole thing was "negotiated without congressional involvement." Somebody on that desk had a sceptical breakfast. Genuinely: better. * But one word still can't get past security. Euronews writes that "Venezuela's interim authorities" granted the concessions. Interim since when? Interim how? The AP version spends exactly one clause on it: Trump has pushed into Venezuelan oil "since the January military mission that captured then-President Nicolás Maduro on federal narcoterrorism and drug trafficking charges." One clause. That's all it costs. Euronews's last Venezuela piece skipped January; this one, its best yet, skips it again. When a government signs away its oil fields for a century, the reader gets to know how that government came to hold the pen. * The sovereignty maths stays quietly hilarious, too. Euronews reports the agreement is governed by US law, subject to US courts, with Washington holding a veto over board appointments and a requirement that most directors be US citizens — and then gives acting President Delcy Rodríguez the closing argument that the country "cedes nothing of its sovereignty." To Euronews's credit, the quote arrives tagged "insisting in the face of criticism," which is more escort than officials usually get. We'd just note that on Sunday this outlet put 'sovereignty' in scare quotes; today the word walks free while the deal terms sit two paragraphs up, coughing politely. * One last cameo. Euronews reports the agreement was signed by "US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth." The AP copy says "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth." Congress has never voted to rename the department — we went through this just this morning with Fox, which has been running the rebrand for months. The White House writes 'Secretary of War' into a fact sheet, and the title spreads exactly as far as newsrooms are willing to copy-paste it. AP wasn't. Euronews was. * So: right verb, real receipts, sharper questions — the Sunday version of this desk wouldn't recognise the Tuesday one. One more sentence, Euronews. It starts with 'In January.'