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Panama bans First Quantum Minerals from extracting copper following the closure of its Cobre Panamá mine last year.
2024-05-3

Nicaragua grants political asylum to former Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli after he requests protection at the Nicaraguan embassy in Panama City, Panama.
2024-02-7

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seize the Panama-flagged oil tanker "Niovi" in the Strait of Hormuz.
2023-05-3

Protests continue in Panama with road and railways blockades, after protesters rejected president Laurentino Cortizo's concessions.
2022-07-16

Protesters in Panama continue blocking streets and railways, mainly in Chiriquí and Veraguas Provinces, rejecting the concession by president Laurentino Cortizo of freezing fuel prices.
2022-07-12

In a speech at the United Nations General Assembly, President Laurentino Cortizo says that Panama is expected to reach herd immunity in the coming weeks after vaccinating 4.2 million people.
2021-09-23

Panama authorizes the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine for people aged 12 years and over.
2021-07-12

Panama's Ministry of Health reports a total of 989 cases of COVID-19 in the country, of which 24 people have died.
2020-03-30

Laurentino Cortizo of the center-left Democratic Revolutionary Party defeats Rómulo Roux of the center-right Democratic Change party in a narrow election to become the next president of Panama. Cortizo receives 33% of the vote to Roux's 31%, marking the return of the Democratic Revolutionary Party after 10 years out of the presidency.
2019-05-5

Maltese chemical tanker YM Uranus is reported to be sinking following a collision with the Panamanian cargo ship "Hanjin Rizhao" off the coast of Brittany, France.
2010-10-8