A Hong Kong-based company has agreed to sell most of its stake in two key ports on the Panama Canal to a group led by US investment firm BlackRock.
The sale comes after weeks of complaining by President Donald Trump that the canal is under Chinese (...)
Six weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump came to a US Capitol controlled by his Republican Party to take a lengthy victory lap.
"We have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplished in four years or eight years, and we are (...)
China has set an ambitious target of "around 5%" growth for 2025, in a defiant show of confidence as it braces for the fallout from escalating American tariffs on its export-driven economy.
The target "underscores our resolve to meet difficulties (...)
US President Donald Trump delivered his first joint address to Congress on Tuesday since his return to power, focusing on Ukraine and Greenland in a record 99-minute speech.
Trump wasted no time outlining what he said were his administration's (...)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said the European Union can act "in an hour" if US President Donald Trump slaps threatened tariffs on the bloc.
Speaking in the first TV debate before snap elections later in the month, Scholz said his strategy for (...)
Panama President José Raúl Mulino has accused the US of spreading "lies and falsehoods" after the US State Department claimed American government vessels were no longer required to pay a fee to transit through the Panama Canal.
US Secretary of State (...)
Panama denied a claim made by the State Department on Wednesday that the Central American nation had agreed to no longer charge fees for US government ships to transit the country's famous canal.
"In response to a publication released by the United (...)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has demanded that Panama make "immediate changes" to what he calls the "influence and control" of China over the Panama Canal.
America's top diplomat said Panama must act or the US would take necessary measures to (...)
World leaders congratulated President Donald Trump on his inauguration Monday, with many urging stronger alliances or continued cooperation between their countries and the United States, in carefully crafted social media posts and (...)
Greenland wants to work more closely with the US on defense and exploring its mining resources, its prime minister said on Monday.
Mute Egede said his government was looking for ways to work with President-elect Donald Trump, who has in recent weeks (...)
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said she is now safe after her aides said she was "intercepted" at a protest in Caracas on the eve of President Nicolas Maduro's inauguration.
Machado's political group wrote on X that she had been (...)
The EU will not allow other countries to attack its sovereign borders, France's foreign minister said on Wednesday, after US President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out using military action to seize Greenland.
Trump on Tuesday reiterated his (...)
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has mocked US President-elect Donald Trump's proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" by suggesting that North America should be called "Mexican America".
Sheinbaum's comments on Wednesday came (...)
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday intensified his push for American expansionism, refusing to rule out using military force to add Greenland to the United States and retake control of the Panama Canal.
In a wide-ranging news conference at (...)
Donald Trump Jr arrived in Greenland on Tuesday amid a controversy sparked by his father, US President-elect Donald Trump.
Trump has expressed on numerous occasions his desire to acquire the Arctic country and bring it under US ownership. The (...)
Self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González says his son-in-law was kidnapped on Tuesday in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.
González was traveling in the United States when his son-in-law Rafael Tudares was kidnapped while on his way (...)
President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday announced his pick for US ambassador to Panama.
Trump named Miami-Dade County Commissioner Kevin Marino Cabrera as his choice for the post after suggesting that the US should take control of the Panama Canal (...)
Greenland once again said it was not for sale after US President-elect Donald Trump said he wanted to take control of the territory.
"Greenland belongs to the people of Greenland," its prime minister said on Monday, a day after Trump repeated (...)
President-elect Donald Trump has demanded Panama reduce fees on the Panama Canal or return it to US control, accusing the central American country of charging "exorbitant prices" to American shipping and naval vessels.
"The fees being charged by (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi national football team will participate in the 2025 and 2027 editions of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, beginning with the upcoming tournament hosted by the United States and Canada from June 14 to July 6, 2025.
Saudi Arabia joins eight (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi Federation for Robotics and Wireless Sports announced the start of an intensive training camp to develop the skills of male and female students in the intermediate and secondary stages who have qualified to represent Saudi Arabia (...)
Security forces in Venezuela have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at people protesting Sunday's disputed election result.
Thousands of people descended on central Caracas on Monday evening, some walking for miles from slums on the mountains (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia announced on Wednesday that it has included three new countries to the list of countries that are eligible to obtain electronic visit visas. The new additions are the Commonwealth Caribbean countries of the Bahamas, Barbados, (...)
The trial of 27 people charged in connection with the Panama Papers money laundering scandal has started in a Panamanian criminal court.
The leak of secret financial documents in 2016 revealed how some of the world's wealthiest people stashed their (...)
Much more lifesaving humanitarian aid must be allowed into Gaza where one in six children is dangerously malnourished in the north of the war-torn enclave, UN health agency chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday.
These are "children (...)
