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Panama ex-President Martinelli chosen as RM candidate for elections

Panama's former President Ricardo Martinelli was on Sunday chosen as the presidential candidate for his party Realizando Metas (RM) in next year's elections.

Reuters

EXPLAINER: Panama launches operation against smugglers in Darien Gap

Panama has unveiled a new effort to control illegal migration through the treacherous Darien Gap that spans its eastern border with Colombia

The Independent UK

Panama boosts security in Darien Gap to confront human traffickers

Panama launched a police operation on Friday at its border with Colombia to fight organized crime and human smuggling linked to the growing flow of migrants crossing the dangerous jungle of the Darien Gap.

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Panama grants legal rights to sea turtles, boosting 'rights of nature' movement

Sea turtles in Panama now have the legal right to live in an environment free of pollution and other detrimental impacts caused by humans, a change that represents a different way of thinking about how to protect wildlife.

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Panama launches operation in Darien jungle targeting organized crime, migrant smugglers

Panama has launched a security operation along its shared border with Colombia to combat organized crime groups and migrant smugglers involved in record-setting migration through the perilous Darien Gap this year

The Independent UK

Droughts Boost Shipping Costs and Keep Inflation Elevated

A severe drought that has reduced water levels in the Panama Canal threatens to boost shipping costs that may keep inflation elevated, a new challenge to global central banks as they seek to contain inflation. Water levels at Gatun Lake, which feeds the locks in the Panama Canal to raise...

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Sophie Habboo stuns on honeymoon as fuming husband Jamie Laing is still without luggage

Made In Chelsea star Sophie Habboo has stunned on her honeymoon as hubby Jamie Laing is unimpressed as he has no clothes after his suitcase got lost on their 'nightmare' journey

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Child migrants crossing Darien Gap surge eightfold -UNICEF

The number of child migrants crossing a dangerous stretch of jungle dividing Colombia and Panama has rapidly increased during the first four months of this year, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Magnitude 6.6 earthquake shakes Panama-Colombia border

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck in the Gulf of Darien near the border of Panama and Colombia late on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, with tremors felt across both countries.

Reuters

In Panama, legal rights given to sea turtles, boosting the 'rights of nature' movement

Sea turtles in Panama now have the legal right to live and have free passage in a healthy environment, a change that represents a different way of thinking about how to protect wildlife

The Independent UK

Canoe conman John Darwin serenaded by wife in social media videos

Canoe fraudster John Darwin has been filmed being serenaded in his second wife’s social media videos.

Evening Standard

Tragic girl couldn't breathe and 'begged for her life' but border officials ignored her

Eight-year-old Anadith Tanay Reyes Alvarez, from Panama, had an underlying heart condition and had undergone surgery in recent years before she died while in Border Patrol custody in Harlingen, Texas

Daily Mirror

Aunt says US-Mexico border officials KNEW of girl's condition before her death in custody

Eight-year-old Anadith Tanay Reyes Alvarez, from Panama, died on Wednesday, May 17, after suffering a 'medical emergency' while in Border Patrol custody in Harlingen, Texas

Daily Mirror

US reveals 8-year-old girl died in border patrol custody

The passing of a young Panamanian girl marks the second death of a minor in two weeks in US immigration custody.

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Girl, 8, dies in US Border Patrol custody, officials confirm

An 8-year-old girl from Panama has died in US Border Patrol custody, Customs and Border Protection says.

Reuters

UN refugee official: Darien Gap crossings on pace to hit record

The number of U.S.-bound migrants who cross the dangerous jungle separating Panama and Colombia could rise to a record this year, according to a senior U.N. refugee official.

The Independent UK

‘In the hands of God’: One Venezuelan family's journey to the US

When Luis López was lost in Panama's Darien Gap last year with his pregnant wife, their two children and her grandmother, he often knelt in the mud to beg God not to abandon them

LiveScience

When did the Isthmus of Panama form between North and South America?

The linkage of the Americas had outsize impacts globally, and its controversial timing has similarly large implications for science.

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Migration through Panama's Darien Gap spikes despite US plan

The number of people arriving in the treacherous Darien Gap linking Panama with Colombia soared in April and early May, Panamanian government data shows, dealing a blow to U.S. efforts to curb undocumented migration to the north.

The Independent UK

Migrants flow north to US border ahead of policy changes

Despite a dissuasion campaign by the U.S. government, migrants are headed toward its southern border in growing numbers ahead of the end of pandemic-era asylum restrictions and proposed new restrictions on those seeking asylum

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Navy: Iran Seizes Oil Tanker in Strait of Hormuz

Iran seized a Panama-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, the second-such capture by Tehran in recent days, the US Navy said. The Navy's Mideast-based 5th Fleet identified the vessel as the Niovi. It said Iran's Revolutionary Guard seized the ship. The Navy published pictures of a…

The Independent UK

US Navy: Iran seizes oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz

Iran seized a Panama-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, the second-such capture by Tehran in recent days

Motor1

On-Board Video Shows Airplane Crashing On Highway, Everyone Walks Away

The small Cessna 172 went down in Panama on May 1, breaking in half upon impact.

Radio France Internationale

Drought threatens to dry up crucial Panama Canal shipping link

Drought has forced authorities in Panama to reduce shipping traffic in the canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific as a water supply crisis threatens the future of the crucial waterway. Two artificial lakes that normally maintain the water level in the canal and refill the locks have been depleted by…

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I never knew I needed a wicker Bluetooth speaker ‘til I saw B&O’s 60’s-styled beauty

Bang & Olufsen wants us to think of straw Panama hats on beaches with its new portable Bluetooth speaker.

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