Sources: BBC
Portuguese citizens vote in the first round of the presidential election between 11 candidates to succeed incumbent Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who has reached his term limit. Socialist Party candidate António José Seguro and CHEGA leader André Ventura advance to the second round. 2026-01-18
A 69-year-old Portuguese Lino Sousa Loureiro is killed and seven other people are injured in a mass stabbing attack by a 37-year-old Algerian man at a market in Mulhouse, France. The stabbing is being treated as a suspected Islamic terrorist attack. 2025-02-22
An Alfa Pendular high-speed train derails in Coimbra, Portugal, killing two people and injuring at least 30 others. 2020-07-31
Belgian Federal Police confirm that fugitive Belgian large weapons smuggler and arms trafficker Jacques Monsieur was arrested in Portugal yesterday. 2019-08-15
The death toll from forest fires in Pedrógão Grande, central Portugal, rises to at least 62. Many victims were trapped on the road between the towns of Figueiró dos Vinhos and Castanheira de Pera. 2017-06-18
Portuguese authorities charge Luiz Felipe Scolari, the coach of the Brazil national football team, with tax fraud allegedly carried out when he was the coach of Portugal. 2014-05-14
Portugal scraps four public holidays as an austerity measure. 2012-05-9
Seven defendants are found guilty of abusing children in the Casa Pia child sex abuse trial in Lisbon, Portugal. 2010-09-3
1998 Nobel Laureate José Saramago from Portugal dies at the age of 87. 2010-06-18