Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that U.S. and Panama officials would sign a “framework” agreement allowing U.S. warships to travel “first and free” through the Panama Canal. Hegseth ...

UNITED NATIONS — The United States and China clashed over the Panama Canal at the United Nations on Monday, with the U.S. warning that Beijing's influence over the key waterway could threaten global ...

Chinese antitrust regulators are investigating a US consortium’s deal for two ports in the Panama Canal zone, reportedly delaying the deal’s closing that was originally set for next week. President ...

Panama promotes itself “as the bridge of the world, heart of the universe” but lately the narrow Central American Isthmus and its namesake canal that joins the Atlantic to the Pacific have become the ...

The United States and Panama have officially signed a new defense and security pact aimed at reinforcing control over the Panama Canal, a move that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claims is critical to ...

Chinese authorities are reportedly reviewing the sale of a Hong Kong-based company's overseas port operations after it divested its assets near the Panama Canal following U.S. pressure and President ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pledged that the Trump administration would “take back” the Panama Canal from “China’s influence” on Tuesday during a visit to the key shipping lane. “China did not ...

Mr Flores’s announcement came three days after the deal was supposed to be wrapped up. It wasn’t right, he said, that “In other parts of the world there are people negotiating the future of assets ...

By Alek Buttermann Panama’s canal authority has confirmed that preparations for two port concessions and a cross-isthmus gas ...

WASHINGTON — The White House has directed the U.S. military to draw up options to increase the American troop presence in Panama to achieve President Donald Trump’s goal of “reclaiming” the Panama ...

PANAMA CITY, Sept 25 (Reuters) - The Panama Canal said on Thursday that lawmakers in the Central American nation had approved the proposed budget for the key global freight channel for the 2025/26 ...