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

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 a record daily increase with 4,656 new cases, bringing the cumulative counts to 137,272 confirmed cases and 2,468 deaths.
2020-10-30

Spain, Portugal, France, Germany and Luxembourg agree to take in 141 migrants, 67 of them unaccompanied children, who were rescued on Friday by the MV "Aquarius"; Malta allows the ship to dock.
2018-08-14

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is elected President of the Portuguese Republic.
2016-01-24

Moody's Investors Service downgrades the credit ratings of several European Union members including Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain and issues a negative outlook for the ratings of Austria, France and the United Kingdom.
2012-02-13

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

1998 Nobel Laureate José Saramago from Portugal dies at the age of 87.
2010-06-18