The administrator of the Panama Canal has responded to criticisms from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, denying that there ...

Global warming is making both places more important to global shipping and trade. To imagine the kind of future a hotter, ...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama on Tuesday celebrated the 25th anniversary of the U.S. handover of the Panama Canal, which ...

President-elect Donald Trump wouldn't rule out military or economic coercion, saying the U.S. needs to stop China. Also a ...

President-elect Donald Trump says he won't rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and ...

Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the highest pride.” More than a century later, Donald Trump is ...

To return the canal to Panama ... An earlier version of this article misstated the rank of Omar Torrijos Herrera when he seized power in Panama in 1968 in a military coup. He was a lieutenant ...

Tensions over U.S. control of the Canal Zone came to a peak in 1964 when a group of Panamanian students attempted to raise the Panamanian flag at the high school inside the Canal Zone, a civilian ...

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino on Thursday ruled out negotiations with US president-elect Donald Trump over control of the Panama Canal ... s no possibility of opening any kind of ...

Opening in 1914, the US-built canal was under US administration until a 1977 agreement called for its ultimate transfer to Panama. Both nations worked together to operate the canal until 1999 ...

gives the U.S. the right to act to ensure the canal remains open and secure. The second stated that the U.S. would turn over the canal to Panama on Dec. 31, 1999. Both were signed in 1977 and ratified ...

And at an hour-long news conference ... the canal neutral and open to all vessels and provided for joint US-Panamanian control of the territory until the end of 1999, when Panama would be given ...