Lionel Messi and Inter Miami will play exhibitions in Peru, Panama and Honduras next month in a preseason tour ahead of the 2025 MLS season.

Inter Miami will kick off the defense of its Supporters' Shield trophy on February 22 when it hosts New York City FC at Chase Stadium.

Inter Miami opens training camp Monday, plays first preseason game Jan. 18 in Las Vegas vs. Mexican champion Club America.

The strategist Javier Mascherano announced the team's plans, which include a match against Mexico's three-time champion Club America. Inter Miami have announced their preseason matches ahead of the 2025 MLS season,

They say they fought too hard to wrest it from the U.S. to now hand back the waterway, which is part of the nation’s identity.

Marco Rubio will head overseas late next week; he's also scheduled to visit Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic.

The neutrality of the nearly 50-mile canal, through which nearly 15,000 ships transit each year, is enshrined in Panama’s Constitution and is enforced by the autonomous Panama Canal Authority.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will pay his first trip starting next week to Central American nations including Panama, where President Donald Trump has threatened to seize the Panama Canal, a spokeswoman said Thursday.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is traveling to Panama late next week in his first official diplomatic trip late, amid heightened tensions over President Trump’s threats to retake the Panama

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On Christmas Day, Trump posted on social media that the "wonderful soldiers of China" were "lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal" - a claim which was swiftly denied by officials in Panama City and Beijing.

Panama has complained to the United Nations over US President Donald Trump's "worrying" threat to seize the Panama Canal, even as it launched an audit of the Hong Kong-linked operator