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Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro, second right, gestures during a debate preceding a confidence motion vote at the Portuguese parliament in Lisbon, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
What to know about the collapse of Portugal’s government
Portugal has slid back into more political uncertainty after its third government fell in as many years when Prime Minister Luis Montenegro lost a confidence vote in Parliament.
 
A fire rages on the hills around Sever do Vouga, a town in northern Portugal that has been surrounded by forest fires, Tuesday night, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruno Fonseca)
Portugal declares a state of calamity as wildfires rage out of control
More than 100 wildfires are stretching thousands of firefighters to the limit in northern Portugal. The country’s worst spate of fires in recent years is blamed for seven deaths since they spread out of control over the weekend.
 
A man carries a fire extinguisher and seeks on the phone while a metalworking warehouse burns in Sever do Vouga, a town in northern Portugal that has been surrounded by forest fires, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruno Fonseca)
Wildfires in Portugal blamed for at least six deaths as Europe sends aircraft to help
Five thousand firefighters are struggling to contain multiple wildfires raging across northern Portugal that are blamed for causing at least six deaths and forcing an unknown number of residents to flee their homes.
 
Pope Francis leaves after leading a holy mass at Tasitolu park in Dili, East Timor, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
Pope Francis’ Mass in East Timor draws 600,000 people, nearly half the population
The Vatican says some 600,000 people have attended Pope Francis’ Mass in East Timor, or nearly half the country’s population. It’s held Tuesday on the same field where St.
 
Pedro Nuno Santos, center, leader of the Socialist Party, casts his vote in the election for house speaker at the parliament in Lisbon, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. Portugal's newly-elected Parliament Wednesday voted in a new house speaker following a deal between the country's two main centrist parties. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
New Portuguese Parliament elects house speaker after deal between 2 main parties
Portugal’s newly-elected Parliament has elected a new house speaker, following a deal between the country’s two main centrist parties. The chamber elected José Aguiar Branco of the Social Democrats by 160 votes, well above the 116 needed.
 
FILE - SUV car drive on the Champs Elysees avenue, near to the Arc de Triomphe Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024 in Paris. Paris residents are voting on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024 whether to muscle SUVs off the French capital’s streets by making them much more expensive to park. It's the latest leg in a drive by Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo to make the host city for this year’s Olympic Games greener and friendlier for pedestrians and cyclists. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
Parisians vote to hit SUVs with eye-popping parking costs in latest green drive before Olympics
Parisians have voted to muscle SUVs off the French capital’s streets by making them much more expensive to park starting next September.
 
A soldier patrols inside the Gare de Lyon station after an attack, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024 in Paris. A man injured three people Saturday in a stabbing attack at the major Gare de Lyon train station in Paris, another nerve-rattling security incident in the Olympic host city before the Summer Games open in six months. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Paris police say suspect in train station attack that injured 3 may have mental health issues
A man armed with a knife and a hammer wounded three people in an early-morning attack at the busy Gare de Lyon train station in Paris. The attack on Saturday is another security incident for the Olympics host city ahead of the Summer Games.
 
Gagged activists hold a placard as persons wearing a mask of French President Emmanuel Macron stand behind putting his hand on their mouth during a protest Friday, Nov. 24, 2023 in Paris. Activists say that France is vetoing a European decision on rape definition based on lack of consent. The large majority of EU member countries already treat violence against women and girls as a crime but the Commission said last year there are gaps in national legislation. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Activists call on France to endorse a consent-based rape definition across the entire European Union
Activists wearing masks depicting President Emmanuel Macron have urged France to change its position and endorse a law proposed by the European Union that would define rape as sex without consent in the bloc’s 27 countries.
 
CAPTION CORRECTS NAME TO ESTHER SENOT French nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, right, his wife Beata, second from right, French Holocaust survivors, Esther Senot, third from left, and Ginette Kolinka, fifth from left, attend a gathering in the Paris Holocaust memorial to sound the alarm about resurgent antisemitic hate speech, graffiti and abuse linked to the Israel-Hamas war, in Paris, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. rance's Interior Ministry said this week that 1,762 antisemitic acts have been reported this year, as well as 131 anti-Muslim acts and 564 anti-Christian acts. The placard on the right reads "we won't let history repeat itself, or stutter". (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
French Holocaust survivors are recoiling at new antisemitism, and activists are pleading for peace
 
One of the signature broad, black hats that Napoléon wore when he ruled 19th century France and waged war in Europe is on display at Osenat's auction house in Fontainebleau, south of Paris, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023. The hat is tipped to fetch more than half a million euros (dollars) at the auction Sunday of Napoleonic memorabilia patiently collected by a French industrialist. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
One of Napoleon’s signature bicorne hats on auction in France could fetch upwards of $650,000
One of the signature broad, black bicorne hats that Napoleon Bonaparte wore when he ruled 19th-century France and waged war in Europe is expected to fetch more than half a million euros (dollars) at auction.
 
Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa gestures during a news conference in Lisbon, Portugal, Tuesday Nov. 7, 2023. Costa says he is resigning after being involved in a widespread corruption probe. Costa said in a nationally televised address that "in these circumstances, obviously, I have presented my resignation to the president of the republic." Earlier the state prosecutor said police have arrested Costa's chief of staff while raiding several public buildings and other properties as part of a widespread corruption probe. An investigative judge issued arrest warrants for Costa's chief of staff, the mayor of Sines, and three other people. (AP Photo/Ana Brigida)
Portugal’s prime minister resigns as his government is involved in a corruption investigation
Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa has resigned while his government is involved in a widespread corruption probe. The announcement has sent a shock wave through the normally tranquil politics of the European Union member.
 
Siblings Sofia Oliveira, 18, and Andre Oliveira, 15, pose for a picture at the beach in Costa da Caparica, south of Lisbon, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. They are two of the six Portuguese children and young adults set to take 32 European governments to court on Wednesday, Sept. 27, for what they say is a failure to adequately address human-caused climate change in a violation of their human rights. (AP Photo/Ana Brigida)
Six young activists devote years to climate fight with 32 governments. Now comes their day in court
Six Portuguese children and young adults are set to take 32 European governments to court Wednesday for what they say is a failure to adequately address human-caused climate change in a violation of their human rights.
 
Young pilgrims from South Korea celebrate with their national flag and with Pope Francis after he announced that the next World Youth Day, will be in Seoul, South Korea in 2027, at the end of a mass at Parque Tejo in Lisbon, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023. An estimated 1.5 million young people filled the parque on Saturday for Pope Francis' World Youth Day vigil, braving scorching heat to secure a spot for the evening prayer and to camp out overnight for his final farewell Mass on Sunday morning. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Pope announces World Youth Day to return to Asia in 2027, urges young people ‘not to be afraid’
Pope Francis has announced World Youth Day is returning to Asia for the first time in three decades. He made the announcement Sunday at the end of his five-day trip to Portugal.
 
Pope Francis attends a meeting with the students of the Portuguese Catholic University in Lisbon, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. Pope Francis met with survivors of clergy sexual abuse in Portugal on Wednesday and blasted members of the country's Catholic hierarchy for their response to the long-ignored scandal, which he said had marred the Catholic Church and helped drive the faithful away. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pope gets an electrifying World Youth Day welcome and urges fighting for economic justice, climate
Hundreds of thousands of flag-waving young people have given Pope Francis a raucous welcome to the World Youth Day festival in Portugal’s capital.
 
A nun reaches out to kiss the hand of Pope Francis as he leaves the Jeronimos Monastery after Vespers in Lisbon, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023. Pope Francis has started his five-day pastoral visit to Portugal Wednesday that includes his participation at the 37th World Youth Day, and a pilgrimage to the holy shrine of Fatima. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
Pope Francis blasts scandal of clergy sex abuse in Portugal and meets with survivors
Pope Francis has met with survivors of clergy sexual abuse in Portugal, and the Vatican says he listened intently to them.
 
Police think Madeleine McCann is dead; parents still hope
German police say they presume Madeleine McCann, who went missing in southern Portugal 13 years ago, is dead. But the British girl’s parents still nurture hope she will be found alive.
 
Pope warns of economic ‘idols’ in visit to Mauritius
Pope Francis celebrated Mauritius’ ethnic and religious diversity on Monday during a daylong trip to the Indian Ocean nation, but he also urged the government to resist pursuing an “idolatrous economic model” that sacrifices people for profit.
 
Pope to Mozambique after new accord: ‘Courage brings peace’
Pope Francis has praised Mozambique’s president and opposition leader for their courage in signing a landmark new peace accord, as he opens a visit to the southern African nation.