Sources: BBC
Three people are killed and three others are missing after a fishing boat sinks off the coast of Marinha Grande, Portugal. 2024-07-3
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 of 234 deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 9,920. 2021-01-22
Portugal reports a record 14,647 new confirmed cases and 219 deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide totals to 581,605 confirmed cases and 9,465 deaths. 2021-01-20
Portugal reports a record 95 new deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 5,373. 2020-12-11
Portugal reports 847 new daily cases, bringing the cumulative totals to 68,025 confirmed cases and 1,899 deaths. Ever since the end of national lockdown in May, this has been the fifth time that the country has registered some record increases in new cases, with all five records occurring during an 11-day window. 2020-09-19
Wildfires in central Portugal kill at least 24 people and several firefighters are among 20 injured. The death toll so far is the largest due to a wildfire in Portugal since 1966. 2017-06-17
A small Swiss-owned plane crashes in the Portuguese village of Tires, west of Lisbon, killing at least five people. 2017-04-17
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