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Report comes as US uses claims of Chinese meddling to push for control over strategic waterway.

Auditors in Panama have reported that the Hong Kong-based owner of key Panama Canal ports has violated the terms of its contract.

Comptroller-General Anel Flores announced on Monday that the audit had found “many breaches” of the concession awarded to Hong Kong-based logistics giant CK Hutchison to operate the Balboa and Cristobal ports, which sit close to the Panama Canal.

The report comes as…

On March 16, a fire tore through an improvised nightclub inside an abandoned carpet factory in Kocani, North Macedonia, killing 59 young people and injuring more than 150.

In Kocani, a town of fewer than 25,000 people, the loss is profound – a large part of its youth died in the fire. Like many towns across North Macedonia, it had already been hollowed out by migration. For those young people who stayed, the fire was a devastating reminder of the shrinking possibilities for life at…

President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on more than 180 trading partners of the United States last week.

He described these as “reciprocal tariffs” against countries that impose heavy duties on US imports, aimed at rebalancing a global trade equation that he has long argued is weighted against his country.

The president has cited imbalanced US trade to justify his argument. Indeed, the US has the largest trade deficit in the world and, in 2023, its import costs were $1.1…

China and the United States are locked in an escalating war of words backed by threats of new tariffs before key deadlines that are threatening to plunge an already unsettled global economy into an even deeper crisis.

US President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff impositions last Thursday saw China slapped with higher tariffs on its US exports and a minimum of 10 percent levied on all other countries exporting to the US. The announcements threw the global stock market into chaos…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Amid the ongoing Israeli blockade and bombardment of Gaza, the heads of the UN’s aid agencies warned on Monday that civilians trapped there are facing numerous daily challenges, with relief supplies running critically low.

In a joint statement, they said, “We are witnessing acts of war in Gaza that show an utter disregard for human life,” with Israeli displacement orders forcing hundreds of thousands to flee – with nowhere safe to go.

“With the…