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Deep in the steamy rainforests of Panama lives a spectacular-looking animal with an extravagant trick; the matador bug, Bitta alipes, sports vivid red patches on its back legs, which it raises and waves in a striking display. For a long time, scientists assumed this flamboyant performance was part of courtship. But a new study, published in Current Zoology, has overturned that …

A U.S. guided-missile cruiser, USS Lake Erie, was seen crossing the Panama Canal from the Pacific to the Caribbean on Friday night, after the Trump administration deployed warships near the coast of Venezuela. AFP journalists saw the naval vessel passing through one of the canal’s locks at around 9:30 pm and navigating east toward the Atlantic. The United States has …

Panama Canal Plans Sale of New Ports to Bring in Competition Ahead of BlackRock Deal  The Wall Street Journal Source link

U.S. deployment of warships to Caribbean rekindles memory of Panama invasion  Miami Herald Is the Trump Administration Building Up to a Military Confrontation With Venezuela?  The New York Times U.S. destroyers head toward waters off Venezuela as Trump aims to pressure drug cartels  NBC News US taking aggressive action to fight cartels; warned against invading sovereign countries  WLOS Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro condemns US …

HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong conglomerate that had agreed to sell its two ports at the Panama Canal said Monday it may seek a Chinese investor to join a consortium of buyers, a move that could please Beijing but bring more U.S. scrutiny to the geopolitically fraught deal. CK Hutchison Holdings’ initial plan to sell port assets in …