The Portuguese parliament re-classified rape as a public crime on Friday, giving authorities the power to investigate and ...

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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Clergy sexual abuse cases are casting a pall over the Catholic Church in Portugal, ensnaring senior officials even as authorities scramble to explain why shelter was ...

Portugal’s COVID-19 infection rate has dropped sharply after a lockdown aimed at addressing a devastating January pandemic surge, but it is still recording the most daily deaths in the world ...

Portugal's parliament voted on Friday to legalise euthanasia, setting the country up to become the seventh in the world to allow terminally ill patients to seek assistance from a doctor to end ...

Portugal’s parliament has advanced a bill that would end the country’s citizenship law for descendants of Sephardic Jews who were expelled during the Spanish Inquisition.

Legal filings due soon in federal case The lawsuit over the Portugal loan will unfold in Common Pleas Court at the same time Black's $200 million suit proceeds before U.S. District Judge Susan ...

Although passed in parliament last month, the law has now been vetoed by President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa who has argued that in some cases, medical tests should remain a requirement.