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Mozambican-born football legend Eusebio has died of heart failure aged 71, reports Portuguese media.
Captured American fugitive George Wright will claim a new identity to prevent the US from extraditing him, his lawyer say.
Hard-up Portugal has negotiated an international bailout worth €78-billion ($115-billion) over a three-year period, officials say.
Portugal’s financial tailspin gathered speed despite political efforts to contain the acute debt crisis that is also unnerving the 17-nation eurozone.
Moody’s downgraded Portugal’s credit rating on Tuesday, saying the debt-stressed country is struggling to generate growth and faces a tough battle.
Portugal’s Parliament voted by a large majority against proposals to allow same-sex marriages in the mostly Roman Catholic country.
A team of legal experts in Lisbon is sifting through nearly 30 000 pages of police evidence on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
European and African leaders were seeking to open a new era of closer relations, but their summit closed on Sunday with squabbling over trade and human rights. Old divisions…
Gordon Brown or Robert Mugabe? One won’t go to a summit between Europe and Africa in December, but the Portuguese hosts say the potential rewards of closer ties between the two…
Portugal’s president on Tuesday ratified a new law permitting abortion up until the 10th week of pregnancy, but recommended a raft of measures that would discourage the procedure…
