Two ships sailing under the flag of Panama ran into problems off the coast ... Everett Collection/picture alliance The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, a multilateral treaty often referred ...

President Trump again threatened to take control of the Panama Canal, saying in his inaugural address, “We’re taking it back.

Trump wrote on social media, posting a picture of an American flag over a body of water, assumed to be the canal. It came after Panama's president José Raúl Mulino had objected to the idea and ...