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Pok ta Pok: Mayan ball game is serious business

With little regard for joints or bones, bare-chested men hurl their bodies at a hard floor and contort their limbs to strike a heavy...

Panama defends hiring Cuban doctors to fight pandemic

Panama's health minister on Monday defended the deployment of more than 200 Cuban doctors to help the Central American country battle the coronavirus, despite...

Panama’s border closure traps immigrants

The closing of Panama’s border due to COVID has stranded a  thousand migrants—most from Haiti and Cuba—in Colombia, as they had planned to sneak across...

Indonesia seizes Iranian and Panamanian tankers

Indonesia has seized an Iranian tanker and Panamanian vessel suspected of illegally transferring oil in the Southeast Asian nation's waters, authorities said Monday. The crude...

Iota, weakened but deadly, rips through Central America

Storm Iota has killed at least nine people as it smashed homes, uprooted trees and swamped roads during its destructive advance across Central America,...

‘Superfungus’ vs. golden frogs

Cocooned from the outside world, some 200 critically endangered golden frogs are living a sheltered existence in Panama, protected from a devastating fungus that...

Panama hospitals on verge of collapse as virus cases surge

Hospitals in Panama are on the brink of collapse as coronavirus cases spike in the Central American country worst hit by the pandemic, where...

Colombia goes on lockdown

Montevideo"•Countries across Latin America have tightened measures to halt the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus, with more lockdowns, border and school closures as...

Erdogan, Istanbul rival lock horns over ‘crazy canal’

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Panama marks 20 years in charge of canal, faces climate threat

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Ex-president of Panama acquitted of espionage rap

Panama City—Panama’s ex-president Ricardo Martinelli was acquitted on charges of spying on political foes and misappropriation of public funds in a court decision Friday. The...

Nike ditches design after indigenous Guna protest

Panama City—US sportswear giant Nike said Tuesday it was withdrawing its latest shoe after Panama’s indigenous Guna community accused it of “pirating” a protected...

Pope Francis in Panama

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Former Panama dictator Noriega cremated

The body of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was cremated on Tuesday, a day after the 83-year-old died in a Panama City hospital, a...
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