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Panama City (AFP) – US President Donald Trump's threat to seize the Panama Canal over alleged undue Chinese influence may really be aimed at limiting Beijing's growing diplomatic and economic ...

"During the effort to build the canal in the 1880s, more than 22,000 workers from France died, many from malaria and yellow fever, before the etiologies of these tropical diseases were understood ...

During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump doubled down on his assertion that China runs the Panama Canal. "China is operating the Panama Canal and we didn't give it to China.

During his inaugural speech, US President Donald Trump threatened to "take back" the Panama Canal. Built by the US in the early 20th century, the waterway is a key maritime trade route.

Tensions between Panama and the U.S. rose after World War II, especially after the U.S. pressured France and the UK to give up on attempting to retake control of the Suez Canal from Egypt in 1956.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump cast himself both as a peacemaker and fierce defender of US interests in a mercurial return to the White House on Jan 20, vowing to seize the Panama Canal but ...

The attempt, led by the famed developer of the Suez Canal Ferdinand de Lesseps, all but bankrupted France. Failing to reach terms with Colombia to build a US canal, then US President Theodore ...

He said this included engineers from France and workers from Jamaica, Central America and Columbia. Parker said that during the US effort to build the canal, “Some 6,000 died, almost all of whom ...

The theatrics include treating Canada as the 51st state and referring to its prime minister as “Governor Trudeau.” And the threat centers on taking back control of the Panama Canal — a vital waterway ...

MEXICO CITY — President Trump said Monday that the United States would reassert control over the Panama Canal, the strategic, U.S.-built waterway that Washington handed over to the Panamanian ...