In the first operation of its kind in Panama and Central America, Siamese twins Hannah Yinneth and Hannah Yanneth Fernández Gil were separated on Tuesday. A team of more than 75 people led by Panamanian doctors Julio Alessandria and Ramon Policart worked for 8 hours to unjoin the one-year-old twins who were connected at the...
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The Chinese “Fortune Plum” freighter became the millionth vessel to cross the Panama Canal this month, nearly 100 years after the Canal’s inauguration in 1914. The Fortune Plum crossed the 50-mile canal on September 4, carrying steel products from the Pacific to the Atlantic, but the Panama Canal Authority did not release the news...
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The National Assembly’s budget committee approved an extraordinary credit of over $6 million on Monday towards the purchase of two aircraft for the National Air Service. Vice Minister of Security, Alejandro Garuz, explained that one of these aircraft will be used to patrol Panama’s coasts and the other as an air ambulance in emergencies....
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