His first foreign meeting came as US President Donald Trump refused to back down on threats to seize the vital waterway. Read ...

Panama City (AFP) – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Sunday with Panama's leader to press President Donald Trump's demand that the United States take back the Panama Canal, as protesters ...

Panama City (AFP) – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday threatened action against Panama without immediate changes to reduce Chinese influence on the canal, but the country's leader ...

He pointed to the "influence and control" of China over the canal ... pictures of him and Trump before a Nazi flag. "Rubio, get out of Panama!" around 200 demonstrators chanted as the former senator ...

Panama President José Raúl Mulino has rejected the U.S. State Department’s claim that his country had reached a deal allowing ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has walked back the assertion of the State Department that Panama “has agreed to no longer ...

Panama President Jose Raul Mulino said on Thursday the U.S. was spreading "lies and falsehoods" after the State Department ...

Trump's threat to take back the Panama Canal signals a new era of U.S. expansionism and the greatest attack on Central American sovereignty since the 1990s.

President Donald Trump reiterated his vow to “take back” the Panama Canal on Sunday, warning of “powerful” US action in an escalating diplomatic dispute with the Central American country ...