In 1903 the young country of Panama signed a treaty with the United States allowing the construction and control of the Panama Canal Zone. The treaty placed the Panamanians at a disadvantage ...

At the time, the U.S. still controlled the Canal Zone, but dictator Gen. Manuel Noriega, an erstwhile CIA operative and indicted drug trafficker, increasingly found himself in American crosshairs ...

even helping the new government of Panama to become independent from Colombia before signing a treaty that granted the U.S. the rights to build and administer the Panama Canal Zone. Tensions ...

She'd joined the growing number of people - 15,000 by the latest estimate - deciding to ditch the comforts of a house to live on a canal boat instead. Elizabeth and three other boaters speak to ...

The new 10 km (6.2 mile) extension to Egypt's Suez Canal is now operational, the Canal Authority's Chairman Osama Rabie said in a statement on Tuesday. Rabie has said that the extension project will ...

Mulino said he had told U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday that he could neither set the fees to transit the canal nor exempt ... pay fees to transit a zone that we are obligated ...

He explained that the development included duplicating the canal by 10 kilometres, widening the route in this zone by 40 metres towards the eastern bank, and deepening it between 66 and 72 feet.

Reagan, like Trump, wanted to keep control of the Canal zone—but for different reasons. For Trump it’s all about China—for Reagan it was that evergreen bugaboo of the U.S. foreign policy est ...

President Donald Trump has made repeated claims that China “operates” the Panama Canal in recent weeks and has threatened to take back the waterway to block what he sees as Beijing’s ...

He explained that the development included duplicating the canal by 10 kilometres, widening the route in this zone by 40 metres towards the eastern bank, and deepening it between 66 and 72 feet. Rabie ...

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But the only one who actually had a military presence in the canal zone area and the only one who had achieved the closing of the canal is the US. The Chinese are not seen as a threat to the ...