Recent News Headlines : Portugal - Portugal

AFRICA'S RICHEST WOMAN PREPARES NEW DEALS AFTER LOSING HER JOB


The bank is controlled by Unitel, Angola's largest telecommunications company, of which Dos Santos owns a 25 percent stake... READ MORE

11th December, 2017 2562

PORTUGALS RADICAL DRUGS POLICY IS WORKING. WHY HASNT THE WORLD COPIED IT?


Alvaro Pereira was working as a family doctor in Olhao in southern Portugal... READ MORE

5th December, 2017 78598

EUROPEANS AND THEIR FOOD: WORLD-BEATERS IN TRADITION AND TRACEABILITY? - FRANCE 24


TALKING EUROPE This month, Talking Europe takes a closer look at just what goes into European food - and asks whether Europe's tight regulations are wor..... READ MORE

27th November, 2017 0

RUSSIA RETURNS AS LISBON HOSTS EUROVISION SONG CONTEST


The venue will be an entertainment complex alongside the River Tagus... READ MORE

7th November, 2017 0

SHELL, EXXON WIN BLOCKS IN BRAZIL'S PRE-SALT OIL AUCTION


Oil majors Royal Dutch Shell RDSA.L and Exxon Mobil XOM.N won blocks in Brazil's coveted pre-salt oil region in an auction on Friday... READ MORE

27th October, 2017 607

PORTUGAL AND SPAIN WILDFIRES KILL AT LEAST 44 PEOPLE


At least 44 people have been killed in wildfires in Portugal and Spain, according to officials from both countries... READ MORE

20th October, 2017 52

DEADLY WILDFIRES RAVAGE PORTUGAL AND SPAIN


Hundreds of fires have raged across Portugal and Spain since Sunday, devouring homes and killing 41 people... READ MORE

18th October, 2017 257

RAIN BRINGS RELIEF AFTER PORTUGAL WILDFIRE DEATH TOLL REACHES 41; ONE PERSON MISSING


Overnight rain and calmer winds on Tuesday helped firefighters tame a spate of deadly wildfires that broke out over the weekend, devouring homes and killin... READ MORE

17th October, 2017 5

DOZENS DIE AS WILDFIRES RAVAGE PORTUGAL AND SPAIN


Portugal's central districts of Coimbra and Castelo Branco, as well as Viseu further north, were worst hit by the fires... READ MORE

16th October, 2017 362

UEFA WORLD CUP QUALIFYING WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WELL LEARN ON THE FINAL DAY


Europe's 14-month group stage of qualifying for the region's 13 berths in the 2018 World Cup has come down to its final day... READ MORE

10th October, 2017 29

MADELEINE MCCANN MISSING UPDATE: POLICE GET EXTRA CASH TO PURSUE 'CRITICAL WITNESS'


Police in London investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have been provided with additional money to track down a critical witness... READ MORE

8th October, 2017 5

HUGE COCAINE HAUL SEIZED IN ATLANTIC


Nearly four tonnes of cocaine worth an estimated 260m ?200m have been seized by international law enforcement officers in the Atlantic... READ MORE

8th October, 2017 2616

Trending News Headlines : Portugal

FOREST FIRE IN PORTUGAL TRAPS DRIVERS KILLING AT LEAST 62 PEOPLE


European Union officials in Brussels said on Sunday that they had activated the blocs civil protection mechanism to send reinforcements to Portugal... READ MORE

18th June, 2017 30805

43 DEAD IN CENTRAL PORTUGAL FOREST FIRES


Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy tweeted that he is overwhelmed by the tragedy at Pedrogao Grande... READ MORE

18th June, 2017 30259

ANGOLA FLAUNTS RICHES AS COLONIZER PORTUGAL FLOUNDERS


Ms. dos Santos's critics say she has tried to gain respectability in the West by using her ill-gotten gains in Angola and laundering them in Portugal... READ MORE

22nd August, 2017 10179

TAGUS RIVER AT RISK OF DRYING UP COMPLETELY


Construction began in 1966 and water started flowing out of the dammed Tagus headwaters to the Segura in 1979... READ MORE

15th August, 2017 9680

THREE DAYS OF MOURNING FOR 61 VICTIMS


Portugal has declared three days of mourning for the 61 victims of one of the country's deadliest forest fires... READ MORE

18th June, 2017 7947

SUNBATHERS KILLED AFTER PLANE MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING ON BEACH NEAR LISBON


An eight-year-old girl and a 56-year-old man have been killed after a plane crash landed on a beach near Lisbon, according to local media reports... READ MORE

6th August, 2017 5062

MA?RIO SOARES DIES AT 92; GUIDED PORTUGALS SHIFT TO DEMOCRACY


Mario Soares, the pugnacious Socialist leader who guided Portugal's rocky transition to democracy in the 1970s after decades of dictatorship, died on Saturday in Lisbon... READ MORE

8th January, 2017 4704

FOREST FIRE KILLS AT LEAST 25 IN CENTRAL PORTUGAL


At least 25 people have been killed and 20 more injured in central Portugal in a forest fire that has yet to be controlled, according to the government... READ MORE

18th June, 2017 4108

DEATH TOLL HITS 57; MANY KILLED IN CARS


Raging forest fires trapped in their cars as flames swept over a road in central Portugal lightning strike believed to have caused the blaze... READ MORE

18th June, 2017 3715

ELEVEN COUNTRIES STUDIED, ONE INESCAPABLE CONCLUSION THE DRUG LAWS DONT WORK


The key finding of the report, written by Home Office civil servants, lies in a comparison of Portugal and the Czech Republic, both countries where personal use is decriminalised... READ MORE

30th October, 2014 2999

PORTUGAL TO LEVY SUGAR TAX ON SOFT DRINKS IN 2017


World health organisation urges all countries to tax sugary drinks... READ MORE

15th October, 2016 2076

SEX FOR WOMEN AFTER 50 IS IMPORTANT AFTER ALL EUROPEAN COURT RULES


Mrs. Morais, her lawyer said, now plans to go back to the courts in Portugal to reopen the case and seek greater damages... READ MORE

26th July, 2017 1729

MADONNA HOUSE HUNTING IN LISBON ADDS TO RISING PRICE FEARS


Madonna also visited a few estates in the lush-green hills of Sintra, near Lisbon, he said... READ MORE

14th June, 2017 1652

A MASSIVE FOREST FIRE IN PORTUGAL HAS KILLED AT LEAST 62 PEOPLE


The Portuguese government has sent 700 firefighters along with 260 soldiers to fight the fire... READ MORE

18th June, 2017 1267

WILDFIRES TRAP 2,000 PEOPLE IN TOWN IN CENTRAL PORTUGAL


Forest fires have cut off a town of 2,000 people in Portugal, as firefighters struggle to control two large blazes in the centre of the country... READ MORE

18th August, 2017 1235

HOW A LISBON STARTUP HELPS SPEED YOU THROUGH JFK AND HEATHROW


--As told to Joao Lima One of our pilot systems was in Faro, in southern Portugal... READ MORE

16th October, 2016 1078

FIRST DIRECT FLIGHT ROUTE BETWEEN CHINA, PORTUGAL INAUGURATED IN LISBON


The first direct flight route between Portugal and China was inaugurated in Lisbon on Tuesday, linking Hangzhou to Lisbon via Beijing... READ MORE

12th July, 2017 1017

PORTUGAL EX-PM JOSE SOCRATES TO BE HELD AMID CORRUPTION PROBE


Mr Socrates resigned in 2011 in the midst of Portugal's mounting debt crisis... READ MORE

25th November, 2014 900

'YOU'RE MESSING WITH THE KINAHANS HERE!'


An off-duty English policeman was on the plane and he helped staff to try and control the situation... READ MORE

11th April, 2017 874

GERMANY HAS SOME OF THE WORLD'S STRICTEST GUN LAWS, BUT ILLEGAL WEAPONS REMAIN A THREAT


Most mass shootings in Europe that are not associated with international terror groups have been carried out with legally obtained weapons... READ MORE

23rd July, 2016 654

PORTUGAL FIRE SURVIVORS RECOUNT CONFUSION AMID A SEARCH FOR ESCAPE


In some regions of Portugal, he added, we face a situation of complete abandonment of the forest... READ MORE

20th June, 2017 633

SPAIN TRAIN CRASH CAUSES 'DEATHS AND INJURIES'


Spain train crash leads to deaths in Galicia... READ MORE

9th September, 2016 557

EUROPEAN WINEGROWERS TURN TO ROBOTS TO INCREASE COMPETITIVENESS


At a vineyard in Tomar in Portugal, scientists from the University of Lisbon are testing out a new robot designed to increase the productivity of winegrowers... READ MORE

4th September, 2017 516

BRITISH HOLIDAYMAKER 'TRIED TO SWIM TO CRUISE LINER WHEN IT LEFT PORT' IN PORTUGAL


Mrs Brown, a popular figure at her local church in Dorset, was being treated for severe hypothermia yesterday... READ MORE

29th March, 2016 498

BRITAIN PUSHED FOR EXTRA SECURITY CHECKS BLAMED FOR HUGE QUEUES AT EUROPEAN AIRPORTS


Britain pushed for extra security checks in European airports which are being blamed for huge queues... READ MORE

4th August, 2017 407

SPENCER STONE: TRAIN HERO HAD ALWAYS WANTED TO JOIN THE MILITARY


Mr Stone is currently assigned to the 65th Air Base Group at Lajes Air Base in the Azores, and his commanding officers praised his actions... READ MORE

23rd August, 2015 401

INDIA TRAIN 'SELFIE' KILLS THREE STUDENTS


They were moving on one track taking photographs, they saw the train on the Delhi-Mathura line and shifted to the other line... READ MORE

27th January, 2015 400

SPAIN MULLS END OF DUBBED ACTORS ON TV TO BOOST NATION'S ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS


Dubbing has a long tradition in Spanish entertainment, playing a role in effective censorship of foreign films during Francisco Franco's dictatorial regime, between 1939 and 1975... READ MORE

6th December, 2015 382

CRISTIANO RONALDO BEATS MESSI TO WIN FOURTH BALLON D'OR


Ronaldo, the highest-paid sportsman in the world, first won the Ballon d'Or in 2008 after Premier League and Champions League triumphs with Manchester United... READ MORE

13th December, 2016 356

DEADLY FIRES WREAK CHAOS ON PORTUGUESE ISLAND OF MADEIRA


The police have arrested two people in an inquiry into whether the Madeira fires were started deliberately... READ MORE

12th August, 2016 334


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