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/ 11 January 2011
Japan pledged on Tuesday to buy eurozone bonds this month in a show of support for Europe’s struggle with a seething debt crisis.
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/ 18 November 2010
Fifa suspends two members of its executive committee for one to three years by its probe into alleged mis-dealings in the 2018 and 2022 bidding
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/ 8 September 2010
France beat Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-0 in a Euro 2012 qualifier on Tuesday as Portugal went down 1-0 in Norway.
A second-half goal by David Villa earned Spain a 1-0 win over Portugal and a World Cup quarterfinal place after an entertaining match on Tuesday.
José Saramago, who has died aged 87, won the Nobel prize for literature in 1998 and was Portugal’s best-known 20th-century writer.
Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque takes no pleasure in avoiding Brazil in the World Cup second round, with Portugal an equally tough hurdle on Tuesday.
At Friday’s goalless draw between Portugal and Brazil in Durban, Brazil captain Lucio was masterful in containing Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo.
Portugal coach Carlos Queiroz fully expects his team’s final Group G clash against star-studded Brazil on Friday to be a "beautiful game".
Portugal routed North Korea 7-0 in the Soccer World Cup on Monday while Spain bounced back from a shock opening defeat to ease past Honduras.
A merciless Portugal tore North Korea to shreds in a 7-0 rout on Monday, putting them within reach of the knockout rounds.
Portugal suffered a blow on Sunday when influential midfielder Deco was ruled out of their clash with North Korea after suffering a left
Sven Goran Eriksson heralded the newfound discipline shown by his Côte d’Ivoire side in their goalless draw with Portugal on Tuesday.
Portugal got their World Cup finals off to a stuttering start with a goalless draw against a spirited Côte d’Ivoire on Tuesday.
The parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann returned to a Lisbon court on Wednesday for the last session of their libel case.
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/ 16 November 2009
The names of the final four European teams to qualify for next year’s World Cup will be known after the final leg of the play-offs on Wednesday.
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/ 14 October 2009
The race for places at the 2010 World Cup comes down to the wire on Wednesday, with giants Portugal and Argentina looking to secure their spots.
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/ 11 October 2008
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 soccer’s governing body, Uefa, excluded Porto from next season’s Champions League on Wednesday.
At this point, Roger Federer will take a title victory however it comes. Top-ranked Federer won the Estoril Open on debut and his first title of 2008 when fourth-ranked Nikolay Davydenko retired with a left leg injury while trailing 7-6 (5), 1-2 on Sunday. He hadn’t won a tournament this late into the season in nine years.
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/ 14 February 2008
A high-level mission from Angola has visited Portugal to entice potential investors with business opportunities arising from the new-found stability in the south-western African nation, one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. But foreign investors should forget about merely transferring profits abroad without leaving any benefits behind.
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/ 11 February 2008
East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta is "out of danger" and "recovering" following treatment in Australia after being shot in the stomach by rebels, the speaker of the country’s Parliament said on Monday. "According to the information we have, the president has been operated on and the bullet that was in his lung has been removed," Fernando de Araujo said.
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/ 8 February 2008
Angola’s upcoming elections do not pose a risk to the country’s economic and political stability, Deputy Prime Minister Aguinaldo Jaime said at a conference in Lisbon on Friday. Angola is expected to hold a long-delayed parliamentary election on September 5 and 6 and presidential elections in 2009.
This year’s Dakar Rally has been cancelled over security concerns, in particular direct ”terrorist” threats to the race, organisers announced on Friday. The race had been due to start in Lisbon on Saturday but the murder of four French tourists in Mauritania on December 24 led to the French government advising against any travel to the country.
The head of the Portuguese agency responsible for enforcing a new ban on smoking in public was seen lighting up at a New Year party, breaking the law on the first day it came into effect. Antonio Nunes, president of Portugal’s food standards agency, was photographed by the daily, Diario de Noticias, smoking a cigar at a casino on the outskirts of Lisbon.
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/ 13 December 2007
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown signed the European Union’s reform treaty in Lisbon on Thursday, hours after his fellow European leaders inked the text at a ceremony he missed, an Agence France-Presse photographer witnessed. The treaty replaces a draft EU constitution scuppered by French and Dutch referendums in 2005.
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/ 10 December 2007
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 surfaced at the first summit in seven years between the continents as leaders swapped accusations over the crises in Zimbabwe and Darfur.
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/ 9 December 2007
Most African leaders on Sunday rejected new trade deals demanded by the European Union, dealing a blow to efforts to forge a new economic partnership at the first European Union (EU)-Africa summit in seven years. The EU wants to replace expiring trade accords with so-called Economic Partnership Agreements or temporary deals.
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/ 9 December 2007
German Chancellor Angela Merkel directly confronted Robert Mugabe over human rights abuses in front of European and African leaders in Portugal on Saturday, putting the Zimbabwean leader under the spotlight at a summit that has been overshadowed by the despot’s presence.
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/ 8 December 2007
Leaders of Europe and Africa opened a landmark summit on Saturday designed to forge a new partnership of equals, but with strains showing over trade and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s presence. ”We are here … to write a new page in the history of Europe and Africa,” Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates said in an inaugural address.
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/ 7 December 2007
His arrival may have been low-key, but veteran Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is likely to steal the spotlight at this weekend’s European Union-Africa summit with his first trip to Europe in more than two years. Usually the subject of a travel ban from the EU, Mugabe touched down in Lisbon late on Thursday.
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/ 7 December 2007
The leaders of Africa and the Europe Union (EU) gathered in Lisbon on Friday for a summit designed to forge a new era in ties, but which is in danger of being overshadowed by the presence of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe. The two-day summit in the Portuguese capital is set to be dominated by issues such as trade, immigration, the environment and human rights.