Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared to confirm on Thursday that the Pentagon has drawn up contingency plans to seize control of Greenland and Panama by force, sparking outrage and disbelief during a congressional hearing. Grilled repeatedly by Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee about his handling of classified military discussions on Signal chats, Hegseth…
JMM MP Sarfaraz Ahmed: भारतीय सेना की तरफ से ऑपरेशन सिंदूर के तहत पाकिस्तान स्थित आतंकी ठिकानों पर की गई सफल सैन्य कार्रवाई के बाद भारत सरकार ने दुनिया भर में अपना पक्ष मजबूती से रखने के लिए विभिन्न सांसदों के प्रतिनिधिमंडल विदेशों में भेजे हैं. कांग्रेस सांसद शशि थरूर के नेतृत्व में एक प्रतिनिधिमंडल…
Udit Raj on Shashi Tharoor: पाकिस्तान की तरफ से आतंकवाद को दिए जा रहे समर्थन को बेनकाब करने के लिए भारतीय सर्वदलीय प्रतिनिधिमंडल दुनिया के कई देशों के दौरे पर हैं. इनमें बीजेपी सांसदों के अलावा विपक्ष के कई नेता खासकर कांग्रेस सांसद शशि थरूर भी शामिल हैं. वो विदेश में भारत सरकार का मजबूती…
The Colombian government said on Saturday that it had granted asylum to Ricardo Martinelli, a former president of Panama who had been sheltering for more than a year in the Nicaraguan Embassy in Panama City to evade a prison sentence for money laundering. Colombia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it had granted Mr….
“Follow me,” Nando said. “I know where it lives.” It was late morning, hot, humid and quiet. Shafts of sunlight cut through the jungle as we followed a path through the latticed shade. A few hundred yards away, gigantic cargo ships stacked with containers chugged along the Panama Canal. But that was another world. Where…
President Donald Trump on Saturday called for US military and commercial vessels to be granted free passage through both the Panama and Suez Canals, intensifying his push to reassert American influence over vital global shipping lanes. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he had instructed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to…
Hanging from a ladder attached to the hull of a giant, bobbing tanker, Capt. Efraín Hallax began his climb up to the crew awaiting him atop the Athina, a ship anchored in Panama Bay and third in line to transit the Panama Canal. The daunting ascent up the shifting ship was nothing new for Captain…
When lightning strikes a tree in the tropics, the whole forest explodes. “At their most extreme, it kind of looks like a bomb went off,” said Evan Gora, a forest ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y. Dozens of trees around the one that was struck are electrocuted. Within months, a…
When the first buses of newly freed migrants arrived this month in Panama City from a detention camp at the edge of a jungle, three people were visibly ill. One needed H.I.V. treatment, a lawyer said, another had run out of insulin and a third was suffering from seizures. Confusion, chaos and fear reigned. “What…
The deal had the imprint of a Hong Kong billionaire nicknamed “Superman” for his empire building. One of the tycoon’s companies, which for years has run two ports on the Panama Canal, had been thrust into a broader showdown between China and the United States. So the billionaire, Li Ka-shing, got out of the firing…