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Panama Elects Jose Raul Mulino as New President

May 6, 2024

Jose Raul Mulino, member of the centre-right party Realizing Gaols, won the presidential race in Panama. According to the results published after 92% of the votes were counted, he superseded his main rival with 9 points by receiving around…

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US Man Shoots 2 Activists to Death in Panama

Nov 9, 2023

A 77-year-old lawyer named Kenneth Darlington carried out an armed attack on a protest against a mining agreement. Getting angry at the protestors blocking the Pan-American Highway in the city of Chame, Darlington got out of his vehicle,…

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Fire Aboard Cargo Ship in North Sea Continues for Two Days

Jul 27, 2023

A fire on the Panama-flagged cargo ship, Fremantle Highway, has been burning for two days off the Dutch island of Ameland in the North Sea. The ship, carrying 2,857 vehicles, caught fire after an electric car ignited.…

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Panama Seizes 6.7 Tons of Shark Fins in Crackdown on Illegal Trade

Jul 14, 2023

A police operation in Panama resulted in the seizure of 6.7 tons of shark fins and the arrest of five individuals involved in the illegal shark fin trade. The shark fins were prepared for shipment to Asian countries where they…

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Iran Seizes Panama-Flagged Oil Tanker in Strait of Hormuz

May 3, 2023

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Army Navy has seized a Panama-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz for the second time in a week. The tanker, named Niovi, was en route from Dubai to Fujairah Port in the United Arab Emirates when it…

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625 Pockets of cocaine found in a semi-submarine around panama off-shore

Aug 12, 2022

Panama Border Security officers found 625 pockets of cocaine after an operation to a suspicious semi-submarine. Three Colombian in the semi-submarine have been arrested. Officers found out that the drugs were shipped from South America and…

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Unrest in Panama over cost of living

Jul 20, 2022

People have been protesting against fuel prices and the cost of living in the Central American country of Panama for over two weeks. Teachers’ Union, including student groups, workers and doctors demand a solution for the soaring living…

POLITICS

Turkish Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu meets Parlatino President Giacoppo

Apr 28, 2022

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu continues his contacts in Panama, the fifth stop of his Latin America tour after Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador and Colombia. Çavuşoğlu met with the Latin American Parliament (Parlatino) President and…

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Vehicles on the ship to Russia froze up during shipment

Dec 29, 2021

Dozens of vehicles loaded on the Panama-flagged cargo ship "Sun Rio" from Busan, South Korea, arrived at the port in Vladivostok city of Russia 5 days later. But the vehicles arrived at the port fully covered in ice due to cold weather.…