PANAMA — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Panama Saturday on his first trip overseas, as he looks for how to follow up on President Donald Trump's extraordinary threat to seize the Panama Canal.

Rubio will travel later to four other small Latin American countries for an agenda focused on migration, a highly unusual first trip for the top US diplomat, whose predecessors were more likely to start the job with language of cooperation with major allies.

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