Panama’s President Jose Raul Mulino has ruled out the possibility of negotiations with US President-elect Donald Trump over the control of the Panama Canal.

In May this year, Colombia severed diplomatic ties with Israel, almost 67 years after first establishing relations with the Zionist entity.

Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Shahram Irani says the country’s 86th flotilla of warships has managed to circumnavigate the globe.

US State Department spokesperson Ned Price says Washington is closely monitoring Iran’s plans to deploy naval forces to the strategic Panama Canal, which connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean.

Iran's Navy Commander Rear Admiral Shahram Irani says plans are afoot to deploy the Islamic Republic’s naval forces to the strategic Panama Canal, as Iranian servicemen are getting closer to the American coasts.

For the first time this year, the anniversary of the 1989 US invasion to overthrow the government of Manuel Antonio Noriega was marked as the 'Day of National Mourning' in Panama.