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Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa signs a law legalizing euthanasia.
2023-05-16

Railway transport workers go on a nationwide general strike in the United Kingdom after talks on a 7% pay increase for workers collapses. The RMT says that industry executives have only offered a 2% increase in pay, which is well below rising inflation levels.
2022-06-21

German authorities formally identify a suspect in the 2007 disappearance of a British three-year-old girl in Portugal.
2022-04-22

Following the fall of Palma to Islamist militants, Portugal announces it will be deploying 60 special forces troops to Mozambique in the coming weeks to train local forces amid an intensifying insurgency.
2021-03-30

Portugal reports their first case of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 from the United Kingdom in Madeira.
2020-12-27

People in 150 places across France take to the streets peacefully in a general strike to protest President Macron's economic reforms. Railways, airways, schools and power generation are affected.
2018-03-22

Nineteen victims have so far been identified with fifteen from the United Kingdom and one each from Belgium, Germany, Ireland and Portugal.
2015-06-27

A general strike continues in Bangladesh over a proposed change to the electoral system.
2011-07-7

Voters in Portugal go to the polls for the Portuguese legislative election after months of a caretaker government and financial problems that led to a request for an international bailout - the opposition Social Democrats led by Pedro Passos Coelho won.
2011-06-5

The European Union aims to complete Portugal's bailout of approximately €80 billion in exchange for cuts before a new government is elected in June, with the previous government having fallen at the loss of a parliamentary vote on imposing similar austerity measures.
2011-04-8