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A Panamanian shell company may have helped hide millions of dollars from the Brink's-Mat heist leaked tax documents allege.

• 04 апреля 2016, 14:58

Emirates Airline, which was to launch what it called the world's longest non-stop flight this month, postponed those plans for a year.

• 03 марта 2016, 17:37

The mosquito-born chikungunya virus is spreading into Central America, health authorities there say, after outbreaks in several Caribbean nations.

• 21 июня 2014, 13:25

Conservative Juan Carlos Varela, the vice president who broke politically with President Ricardo Martinelli, was officially declared Panama's next president.

• 05 мая 2014, 11:39

A widened Panama Canal is expected to bring in some $3.1 billion per year, considerably less than earlier estimates, the official responsible for the waterway told AFP.

• 03 мая 2014, 15:14

The Venezuelan government ordered Panama's ambassador and three other diplomats at the mission to leave the country within 48 hours.

• 07 марта 2014, 14:19

Work to widen the Panama Canal will resume on Thursday, an official said, two weeks after the huge project was suspended over $1.6 billion in cost overruns.

• 20 февраля 2014, 15:07

Panama President Ricardo Martinelli on Monday blamed the Panama Canal's former administrator for the crisis surrounding its massive expansion project -- where work has been halted over a billion-dollar payment dispute.

• 12 февраля 2014, 09:59

Panama's president warned Thursday he would visit Europe to force a consortium to drop a threat to suspend expansion work on the Panama Canal, as a row over a $1.6 billion cost overrun escalated.

• 03 января 2014, 14:05

Many Latin American leaders were no-shows at the opening of the 23rd Ibero-American summit in Panama, revealing the foundering direction of the annual forum.

• 19 октября 2013, 14:22

The Panama Canal Authority announced Thursday that it slapped a $1 million fine on a North Korean cargo ship caught with an undeclared shipment of Cuban weapons in July.

• 27 сентября 2013, 17:05

A team of UN experts will head to Panama next week to inspect a North Korean ship impounded last month after the discovery of Cuban missile parts in its cargo.

• 09 августа 2013, 11:00

Panamanian authorities have found two Soviet-era MiG-21 fighter jets aboard a North Korea-flagged ship seized this month as it tried to pass through the Panama Canal after departing from Cuba.

• 22 июля 2013, 11:32

UN sanctions experts will go to Panama soon to investigate a North Korean ship that was intercepted carrying weapons.

• 19 июля 2013, 13:57

Panama called for UN inspections of missile parts found aboard a North Korea-flagged vessel as it approached the Panama Canal, weapons Cuba later claimed as its own.

• 17 июля 2013, 15:53

Despite public health campaigns, smoking remains the leading avoidable cause of death worldwide, killing almost six million people a year, mostly in low- and middle-income countries.

• 11 июля 2013, 19:06

With jaws of steel that have earned him the nickname "Coconut Peeler," Andres Gardin, at the tender age of 64, is hell-bent on gnawing his way into the Guinness Book of World Records.

• 14 мая 2013, 14:30

Up against the wall in a drought-sparked energy crisis, Panama said Tuesday it would shut high schools and universities for three days, in a desperate bid to reduce power usage.

• 08 мая 2013, 18:15

Spain's Crown Prince Felipe de Borbon on Thursday visited major construction projects in economically-booming Panama on a trip to highlight Spanish investment in the region.

• 06 октября 2012, 10:50