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Campaigning Wraps Up In Portugal Snap Vote With Right Ahead

Waving colourful flags, hundreds of campaigners took to Lisbon's streets on Friday ahead of Portugal's weekend snap election, with polls giving the opposition centre-right an edge after eight years of Socialist rule.

International Business Times

Portugal braces for snap election as far right advances

Chega, an Islamophobic nationalist party, is predicted to win a large chunk of support in Sunday’s vote.

Al Jazeera

Portugal Electoral Campaign Begins With Right Looking To Gain

Portugal's official election campaign begins Sunday, with the March 10 legislative vote likely to see a breakthrough by populist parties after an influence peddling scandal brought down eight years of Socialist government.

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Who's Who In Portugal's Elections

The head of the centre-right opposition, the new leader of the Socialist Party, and the founder of an extreme far-right formation are the main candidates in Portugal's March 10 legislative elections.

International Business Times

Portugal's Socialist Party Picks New Leader Ahead Of March Vote

Portugal's ruling Socialist Party picked former infrastructure minister Pedro Nuno Santos as its leader on Saturday, ahead of a snap election called after his predecessor Antonio Costa resigned as prime minister and party head amid a corruption investigation.

International Business Times

Portugal’s president calls snap elections in March after PM resigns

Prime Minister Antonio Costa announced resignation after chief of staff was arrested amid corruption probe.

Al Jazeera

Portugal’s prime minister resigns over inquiry into alleged corruption

Antonio Costa steps down in televised address – but asserts his innocence over probe into his administration's handling of lithium mining and hydrogen projects

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Portuguese PM António Costa submits resignation over lithium deal probe

Resignation comes after prosecutors raided leader's official residence

Evening Standard

Jaishankar meets Portugal PM; discusses contemporary challenges

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar discussed contemporary challenges with Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa, on the first leg of his four-day visit to Portugal and Italy

The Hindu

Were Neanderthals really killed off by Campi Flegrei, Europe's awakening 'supervolcano'?

The volcano beneath Italy erupted 40,000 years ago and had catastrophic impact on Earth's climate — around the same time that the Neanderthals began their slow march to extinction.

LiveScience

Portuguese president warns PM over credibility, avoids crisis

Portugal President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa issued a dire new warning on Thursday to the prime minister after their rift put the country on the verge of a full-blown political crisis, but refrained from using his power to dissolve parliament.

Reuters

Portugal risks political crisis amid PM-president rift

Portuguese opposition parties called on the president on Wednesday to use his power to dissolve parliament over a growing scandal around state-owned airline TAP, although analysts see the majority Socialist government surviving - for now at least.

Reuters

After backlash, Portugal to hike public pensions by an extra 3.57%

Portugal on Monday approved an additional 3.57% hike in public pensions from July following criticism that it was benefiting from rising tax revenues due to high inflation without sharing those gains with the country's 3.7 million pensioners.

Reuters

Portugal: Two women stabbed to death at Lisbon’s Islamic centre

Police say the attacker is in custody after he was shot and wounded for failing to put down his knife.

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Two women killed at Portugal Muslim centre as attack probed as possible terror

Police shot suspect ‘armed with large knife’ when called to centre in Lisbon

Evening Standard

Police shoot suspect after two killed in knife attack at muslim centre in Lisbon

Police have shot a man after two people were stabbed to death and another person was injured at an Ismaili Muslim centre in Lisbon, Portugal's prime minister has said.

Daily Mirror

Lisbon stabbing: Knifeman shot by police after killing two women at Muslim centre

Portugal's Prime Minister Antonio Costa confirmed that two women had been stabbed to death at the Ismaili Muslim centre - a central facility for the city's Islamic community - in the capital of Lisbon

Daily Mirror

Portugal to start major crackdown on Airbnb and other holiday rentals

Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa has introduced measures to encourage landlords to convert their holiday homes while banning all new licenses for Airbnbs

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Portugal ends Golden Visas, curtails Airbnb rentals to address housing crisis

(This Feb. 16 story has been corrected to make clear that the scheme offers residency rights, not an EU passport, which golden visa-holders can apply for after five years, in paragraphs 9 and 11)

Reuters

Portugal to send Ukraine three Leopard 2 tanks

Portugal is repairing some its Leopard 2 tanks and will send three to war-torn Ukraine next month, Prime Minister Antonio Costa said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Portugal to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine, PM says

Portugal will send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, Prime Minister Antonio Costa said on Saturday, without specifying how many will be shipped.

Reuters

Portugal approves new vetting system after string of hiring scandals

Portugal's government said on Thursday future officials would from now on have to answer a questionnaire before they are appointed to prove they are fit for office after a string of hiring scandals rocked the ruling Socialists.

Reuters

Another Portuguese government member quits in latest hiring scandal

A newly appointed senior Portuguese government official quit on Thursday in a fresh embarrassment for the Socialist administration that is facing tough criticism over its vetting procedures following a wave of scandals and resignations.

Reuters

Portugal's infrastructure minister quits over TAP controversy

Portuguese Infrastructure Minister Pedro Nuno Santos has stepped down, his office said on Thursday, following a public backlash over a hefty severance pay a secretary of state received from state-owned airline TAP, which fell under his remit.

Radio France Internationale

Macron, EU leaders launch €2.5billion hydrogen pipeline between Spain and France

An ambitious underwater pipeline to bring hydrogen from the Iberian Peninsula to the rest of Europe will be completed by 2030 and cost some 2.5 billion euros, the leaders of France, Spain and Portugal said Friday.

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