The canal’s two biggest ports are operated by a Hong Kong company with global reach. The Trump administration sees a Chinese ...

Panama appears to have bowed to Donald Trump’s aggressive style of diplomacy by ditching its involvement in China’s Belt and ...

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The Suez Canal Authority's chairman, Osama Rabie, said on Monday that navigational maps for the planned 10km (6.2 mile) canal ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is visiting Panama in his first international trip. Here’s what to know about the Panama Canal ...

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The English Channel has been in the news recently after Elon Musk suggested renaming it after George Washington. But did you ...

A quarter-century after the U.S. handed control of the Panama Canal to Panama, President Donald Trump wants to take it back. Early this month, Trump suggested he would consider using military force to ...

He was following Google Maps and fell into the canal as he tried to avoid a puddle. He said: “I got off the train and followed Google Maps. It told me to follow this route. It was dark ...

The British Virgin Islands consists of four main islands: Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada and Jost Van Dyke. The entire BVI archipelago consists of more than 15 inhabited islands and dozens of ...

Wading into an issue that made headlines when Trump claimed last month that the canal was “foolishly” given to Panama, Rubio described the waterway as a strategic vulnerability due to Chinese ...