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Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino on Thursday rejected U.S. claims that American warships and boats can transit the ...

The Trump administration is taking proactive measures to regain control over the Panama Canal and reduce Chinese influence at ...

Navy use of the canal is infrequent, with about 40 vessels transiting annually, excluding the service’s aircraft carriers, ...

In his inaugural address last month, Donald Trump described the US decision to hand full control of the canal to Panama, in ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland and retake control of the Panama ...

President Trump is stirring the pot with claims of Chinese control and unfair tolls, while Panama insists it’s just fine running its own show, despite the looming specter of American intervention.

Panama is inching closer to China, Trump’s new Federal Maritime Commission head Louis Sola tells CNBC, and ‘all options on the table’ to defend U.S. business.

Newly inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing to "take back" the Panama Canal, the world's second busiest ...

The new US president has vowed to ‘take back’ the waterway, but there’s much more to this modern wonder than meets the eye ...

won the rights to manage two ports — Balboa on the Pacific side and Cristóbal on the Atlantic side. The Trump administration argues that China could use those ports to turn the Panama Canal ...