Saudi startup airline Riyadh Air has ordered 60 Airbus aircraft.

International soccer returned to Europe over the past week less than two months after the conclusion of Euro 2024.

Cristiano Ronaldo is showing just why Portugal is persisting with him at the age of 39.

Qatar Airways has acquired a 25% stake in the private African carrier Airlink.

Military vehicles and red carnations have returned to the streets and squares of downtown Lisbon as Portugal reenacts dramatic moments from the army coup that brought democracy to the country 50 years ago.

United Airlines says it lost $124 million in the first quarter, and it's blaming Boeing.

What if you don't have enough airline miles for that free flight, but a family member does.

A center-right alliance led by the Social Democratic Party has won Portugal’s general election by a slender margin.

Portugal’s political future is hanging in the balance after a general election that has left two moderate mainstream parties closely contesting the race and an unprecedented surge in support for a populist party that finished third.

Portugal is holding an early general election on Sunday when 10.8 million registered voters will elect 230 lawmakers, who will then choose a new government.

Corruption is a key issue in Portugal's early general election on Sunday.

The official two-week campaign period before Portugal’s early general election has begun.

A commercial flight from New York to Lisbon reached its destination an hour ahead of its normal flight time, thanks to extreme upper level winds.

Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has announced he's dissolving the nation’s parliament and calling an early election two days after Prime Minister António Costa resigned with his government tainted by a corruption scandal.

A timeline released Friday shows that the suspect in the Maine mass shootings stayed one step ahead of police who rushed to the bowling alley and a bar but were too late to stop him from killing 18 people and slipping away into the night in his Subaru.

Maine officials held a press conference at 5 p.m. amid the search for the suspected gunman in a mass shooting Wednesday in Lewiston, Maine.

United Airlines is making its second large order of new planes in less than a year, again seeking a mix of 110 aircraft from Boeing and rival Airbus as it renews its fleet.

The U.N. weather agency says Earth endured its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures.

Air Canada says it has apologized to two women who were booted off a flight by security after protesting that their seats were smeared in vomit.

Pope Francis says his recovery from his latest abdominal surgery is going well.

Pope Francis has announced World Youth Day is returning to Asia for the first time in three decades.

An estimated 1.5 million young people filled a field in the Portuguese capital for Pope Francis’ World Youth Day vigil.

Pope Francis has led an estimated 800,000 people in a meditation on the scourges of violence, poverty and intolerance at World Youth Day.

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.

Pope Francis is beginning a five-day trip to Portugal for World Youth Day.

Pope Francis has met with survivors of clergy sexual abuse in Portugal, and the Vatican says he listened intently to them.

The Vatican has recalled a postage stamp promoting this year’s World Youth Day in Portugal following complaints that it celebrated Portugal’s colonial empire and the nationalist dictatorship of Antonio Salazar.

Authorities in Portugal say the fatal stabbings of two women at an Ismaili Muslim center in Lisbon are not being treated as a potential act of terrorism.

Authorities in Portugal say a man wielding a large knife killed two woman and injured several other people at an Ismaili Muslim center in Lisbon.

Portugal’s center-left Socialist government is set to approve a package of measures to address the country's housing crisis.

A committee looking into historic child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church says 512 alleged victims have come forward, but a report by the expert panel warned that the true number is likely higher than 4,800.

Russian news agencies say former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who fled prosecution after revealing highly classified surveillance programs, has received a Russian passport and taken the citizenship oath.

Cristiano Ronaldo’s highly anticipated tell-all interview with Piers Morgan has finally been broadcast and few at Manchester United have been spared in his scathing condemnation of the club.

An LGBTQ advocacy group says at least 32 transgender and gender-nonconforming people have been killed in the United States in 2022.

Cristiano Ronaldo knows a thing or two about World Cups.

Ukraine is counting on more Western technological support as its war against Russia drags on, with Microsoft pledging to extend its backing for Kyiv through the end of next year.

The head of a lay committee looking into historic child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church says the problem in the past had been “widespread” and on some occasions reached “truly endemic” proportions.

The European Union says it's “critical” that authorities in the 27-nation bloc consider giving second coronavirus booster shots to people between the ages of 60 and 79 years and other vulnerable people.

Portugal is bracing for a heat wave, with temperatures in some areas forecast to climb as high as 43 C (109 F) this weekend just as a severe drought grips the country.

A United Nations conference has warned that measures needed to protect the world’s oceans are lagging and has urged countries to accelerate their implementation.

French President Emmanuel Macron is urging other world leaders to better protect the planet’s oceans by adopting an international agreement modeled on the legally binding Paris climate accords.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says that “egoism” on the part of some countries has been holding up a global agreement on protecting the world’s oceans.

Officials in charge of fighting and monitoring drugs use in the European Union are warning that records amounts of cocaine are being seized and manufacture of the drug is now taking place inside the the bloc.

Celebrated U.S. cellist Yo-Yo Ma has joined refugees from the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in the Portuguese capital Lisbon for a performance of Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik.

A landslide election victory has opened the door for Portugal’s Socialists to start spending a huge financial windfall from the European Union, though the center-left party faces plenty of challenges.

Portugal’s center-left Socialist Party has won a third straight general election, returning it to power as the country prepares to deploy billions of euros (dollars) of European Union aid for the economy after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sunday’s election for a new parliament and government in Portugal is providing a stage for voters to air old grievances.

Portugal’s government is under fire over its preparations for people infected with COVID-19 to vote in an upcoming snap election.

Portugal’s government has announced new incentives for people to get COVID-19 booster shots.

Authorities in Portugal are wrestling with a conundrum: how to hold a general election scheduled for Jan. 30 amid a surge in COVID-19 cases that is confining hundreds of thousands of potential voters to their homes.

Portugal is reimposing coronavirus restrictions because of fears over the threat from the omicron variant.

Former students and faculty members from the Afghanistan National Institute of Music have arrived with their families in Portugal.

The World Health Organization’s European region has recorded a slight drop in both COVID-19 cases and deaths last week after facing a string of weekly increases.

Spain’s health ministry has given the go-ahead for children between ages 5 and 11 to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Portugal’s interior minister has resigned after a series of gaffes and missteps that could have made him a political liability for his center-left Socialist Party ahead of elections for a new government on Jan. 30.

Lines have returned for those seeking vaccine shots in Portugal and Spain.

Portuguese health authorities have identified 13 cases of the omicron coronavirus variant among members of a top soccer club, and were investigating possible local transmission of the virus outside of southern Africa.

Portugal’s new law on working from home has grabbed attention around the world for the way it protects staff.

Portugal is bringing back some tight pandemic restrictions, less than two months after scrapping most of them when the goal of vaccinating 86% of the population against COVID-19 was reached.

Spain, Serbia and Croatia are heading to next year’s World Cup.

Portugal is to hold a snap election for a new parliament and government on Jan. 30.

An international police operation has seized 5.2 metric tons (5.73 short tons) of cocaine with a street value of around 200 million euros ($232 million) on a yacht in the Atlantic Ocean.

As Portugal nears its goal of fully vaccinating 85% of the population against COVID-19 in nine months, other countries want to know how it was able to accomplish the feat.

Jorge Sampaio, a former two-term president of Portugal and one of the most prominent political figures of his generation, has died.

Portugal is beginning its journey to what the country’s prime minister calls “total freedom.”.

Portugal’s battle to contain the surging COVID-19 delta variant has led it to put the United Kingdom on its red list for travel and cancel school classes in the southern Algarve region, its main tourist attraction.

The Lisbon region’s surge in COVID-19 cases is powering ahead, with new infections pushing Portugal’s daily new cases to a four-month high.

Lisbon's mayor says the city council in Portugal's capital has for years provided foreign embassies with personal information about protesters who organize demonstrations outside their premises.

A European Union envoy says Ethiopia’s leaders told him in closed-door talks earlier this year that “they are going to wipe out the Tigrayans for 100 years.”.

European Union authorities are moving a step closer to deploying the bloc’s massive pandemic recovery fund.

Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is putting on the biggest show of his career, and he is doing it in a place he’s fallen in love with: Portugal.

European Union nations are sketching out plans for new sanctions against Belarus that will target economic sectors close to its authoritarian leader as they seek to strike back at him for diverting a passenger jet to arrest a dissident journalist.

British tourists can return to Portugal from next Monday, ending days of uncertainty over whether thousands of U.K. vacation bookings for Portuguese destinations would be allowed.

People familiar with the talks say UEFA has given the British government until Tuesday to offer the travel waivers required to move the Champions League final to Wembley or the all-English game could be played in Portugal instead.

UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin says the shock of Slovenia's 10-day war 30 years ago prepared him for the battle that nearly split European soccer last week.

Leaders from Britain’s aviation industry have joined forces to urge the British government to ensure that popular European destinations face the least onerous coronavirus travel restrictions when holidays are permitted again.

The European Union's top court has rejected an effort by a Scandinavian youth group and eight families around the world to force the EU to set more ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Families from Kenya, Fiji, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal and Romania, along with the Swedish Sami Youth organization, launched the legal action in 2018. AdThe European General Court acknowledged that the plaintiffs are generally affected by climate change but rejected the case in 2019 on procedural grounds. The families and youth group appealed to the European Court of Justice, or ECJ, the bloc’s top court. We see how the climate crisis affects the reindeer, nature and our culture," Sanna Vannar of the Sami youth organization told reporters.

A senior European human rights official is sounding the alarm about a rise in racism and discrimination in Portugal. The Council of Europes Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatovi, published a report Wednesday, March 24, 2021 into the increasing level of racism and the persistence of related discrimination in the southern European country. (AP Photo/Armando Franca, File)LISBON – A senior European human rights official is sounding the alarm about a rise in racism and discrimination in Portugal. The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, published a report Wednesday into “the increasing level of racism and the persistence of related discrimination” in the southern European country. Authorities have also promised to launch later this year a public awareness campaign against racism and discrimination, as well as review police recruitment policies.

Nurses tend to a patient in a COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at the Curry Cabral hospital in Lisbon, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. The number of COVID-19 patients in hospital and in intensive care fell Thursday for the third straight day. The health ministry reported the fewest hospitalizations since Jan. 20 and the fewest patients in ICUs for almost two weeks. The number of COVID-19 patients in hospital and in intensive care fell Thursday for the third straight day. But Germano isn’t expecting any immediate relief at the intensive care unit he heads, where 25 patients are in care.

A doctor performs an ultrasound scan on a patient in a COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at the Curry Cabral hospital in Lisbon, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. A January surge of cases in Portugal has ebbed amid a lockdown, but deaths and pressure on hospitals remain high. The seven-day average of daily deaths in Portugal is the highest in the world, at 2.05 per 100,000 people, according to Johns Hopkins University. Also Thursday, Portugal started inoculating firefighters against COVID-19, as the January surge of cases ebbed but deaths and pressure on hospitals remained high. Portuguese firefighters, who number about 15,000, commonly operate ambulances, and they are to be vaccinated over a two-week period.

Hopes are rising in Portugal that the worst of a devastating pandemic surge might be over, as the number of COVID-19 deaths reported Monday was the lowest in three weeks. Portugal hit a peak of cases on Jan. 29, with a 14-day average of almost 1,700 cases per 100,000 habitants. Amid a lockdown since Jan. 15, that rate has fallen to around 980 per 100,000 — a marked improvement but still one of the European Union’s highest rates. Portugal’s president, prime minister and other senior officials held a televised meeting with health experts to consider whether the lockdown should be extended. Portugal has officially recorded more than 770,500 cases of COVID-19 and attributed more than 14,500 deaths to the coronavirus.

(AP Photo/Armando Franca)LISBON – Hopes are rising in Portugal that the worst of a devastating pandemic surge might be over, as the number of COVID-19 deaths reported Monday was the lowest in three weeks. Still, the spread of COVID-19 in the small European Union country has by some metrics been slowing since the end of January. “I’m a bit more optimistic,” said Dr. Joao Gouveia, who heads a government committee monitoring the intensive care response, citing lower infection rates and fewer hospital admissions. The ministry reported 196 more daily COVID-19 deaths, the lowest since Jan. 18. The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care was 877, below the Feb. 5 high of 904.

Portugal is facing a pandemic surge that has made it the world's worst-hit country by size of population. The European Center for Disease Control, an EU agency, said in weekly data published Thursday that Portugal has received almost 387,000 vaccine doses. AdA pandemic surge in January thrust Portugal into the spotlight as world’s worst-hit country by size of population, according to Johns Hopkins University data, and the vaccine program has inspired hope amid an extended lockdown. Rear Adm. Henrique Gouveia e Melo, who was already head of the vaccine task force as part of its military support, said that as its new chief he had a long to-do list. But he noted that the European Commission is leading the bloc’s vaccine purchase program.

In January, Portugal recorded more than 5,000 death — close to half of its official pandemic total so far. Over the month, hospitalizations grew by 136% and patients in intenstive care units by 78%, pushing the public health system close to collapse. The intense pressure on Portuguese hospitals is unlikely to ease soon, however, because of a time-lag between new cases and hospitalizations. But the Portuguese public found out about that from a detailed statement by German authorities. Health Minister Marta Temido says Portugal ranks seventh in the European Union for the number of people vaccinated in relation to population.

Soldiers prepare beds in consulting rooms being turned into a makeshift COVID-19 ward at the Military Hospital in Lisbon, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)LISBON – At Lisbon’s Military Hospital, hundreds of troops have spent frantic weeks rushing to turn every available space into makeshift COVID-19 wards, as Portugal scrambles to cope with a sudden deluge of cases engulfing its public health system. “In the first nine months (of the pandemic), we tripled our capacity” of beds, said Brigadier General Rui Sousa, a 20-year army doctor who heads the Military Hospital. In total, the hospital will have 274 beds — 80% of them for COVID-19 patients. Last Friday, the Military Hospital started repurposing an area to create 20 beds for COVID-19 patients.

Incumbent Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa delivers a speech following the results of Portugal's presidential election, in Lisbon, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who had been widely expected to win, captured 61% of the vote. Rebelo de Sousa, a center-right moderate and former leader of Portugal’s Social Democratic Party, will serve a 5-year term that will be his last due to term limits. “Everything starts with the battle against the pandemic," Rebelo de Sousa said. Every Portuguese president since 1976, when universal suffrage was introduced following the departure of a dictatorship, has been returned for a second term.

Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa announces that he will be running for reelection in the Jan. 24 presidential election, in Lisbon, Portugal, Monday, Dec. 7, 2020. Portugal holds a presidential election on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021 and the moderate incumbent candidate is widely seen as the sure winner. (Manuel de Almeida/Pool via AP)LISBON – Portugal will hold a presidential election Sunday, choosing a head of state to serve a five-year term as the country suffers through a national lockdown and a worsening coronavirus outbreak. The incumbent, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, is widely expected to be returned for a second and final term. Charming and affable, the 72-year-old Rebelo de Sousa’s willingness to pose for selfies spawned a Portuguese Facebook page called “Selfies com Marcelo” (Selfies with Marcelo).

Portugal's new daily COVID-19 cases have jumped to more than 14,600 to set a new national record. The pandemic has gained momentum in Portugal since Christmas, when restrictions on gatherings and movement were eased for four days. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)LISBON – Portugal’s government on Thursday ordered the closure of schools for two weeks amid a surge in COVID-19 infections that the prime minister blamed on the rise of a more contagious variant. “The risk of this virus spreading through society has increased,” Prime Minister António Costa told a news conference. It argued that if schools closed some children wouldn’t get proper meals.

The pandemic has gained momentum in Portugal since Christmas, when restrictions on gatherings and movement were eased for four days. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)LISBON – Portugal’s new daily COVID-19 cases jumped to more than 14,600 to set a new national record Wednesday, as the country weathers one of the worst pandemic surges in the world. Health authorities officially reported 14,647 new infections — about 3,600 more than the previous daily record set four days ago. The pandemic has gained momentum in Portugal since Christmas, when restrictions on gatherings and movement were eased for four days. Meanwhile, authorities launched a program of rapid COVID-19 tests at schools in hardest-hit areas amid a severe surge in cases.

Municipal workers seal an envelope with a presidential election ballot from a resident at an elderly care home in Montijo, south of Lisbon, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. For 48 hours from Tuesday, local council crews are collecting the votes from people in home quarantine and from residents of elderly care homes ahead of Sunday's presidential election. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)MONTIJO – Local councils in Portugal sent out teams Tuesday to gather votes from people in home quarantine and from residents of elderly care homes before a presidential election being held amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Authorities have taken exceptional measures to ensure that voting in Sunday's ballot is possible, even with the country currently in lockdown. At an elderly care home in Montijo, a town 30 kilometers (18 miles) east of Lisbon, the visiting team set up a makeshift polling booth for eight voters Tuesday.

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday June 17, 2020, Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa after addressing the media at the Belem presidential palace in Lisbon. The office of the Portuguese president said Tuesday Jan. 12, 2021, that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has tested positive for coronavirus although the veteran politician has no symptoms for the COVID-19 disease. (AP Photo/Armando Franca, FILE)LISBON – Portuguese president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has tested negative for the coronavirus in results of two consecutive tests disclosed Tuesday, a day after a single positive result. The president then took two more PCR tests, one on Monday evening and another one on Tuesday, and both of them were negative. False positive results in PCR tests, although rare, can occur.

As a resurgence of the pandemic in the fall looked set to overwhelm Portuguese care homes, the government mobilized all the resources it could. Some of the home’s residents, suddenly confined to their rooms or their floor, were bewildered and chafed at restrictions, even trying to take the elevator and escape confinement. The soldiers’ mission: fan out across the country to visit hundreds of nursing homes and help shore up their defenses against the pandemic. On top of that, nursing home staff in Portugal commonly work in several different care homes and travel between them on public transport. They have already been to more than half of the targeted 2,770 care homes.

LISBON – Portugal’s government unveiled Friday a 3.4 billion-euro ($4.1 billion) rescue package for national airline TAP Air Portugal that entails more than 3,500 job losses — around one-third of the workforce. The plan, which requires the blessing of European Union authorities, also foresees a payroll cut of up to 25% by lowering wages. The government predicts the flag carrier, in which the Portuguese state has a 72.5% stake, will lose revenue of 6.7 billion euros ($8 billion) through 2025. TAP lost more than 700 million euros ($849 million) in the first nine months of this year as the COVID-19 pandemic crunched the travel business. It flies to more than 80 destinations in about 30 countries, focusing mainly on North and South America and Africa.

The next World Youth Day will be held inPortugal in 2023. (Vincenzo Pinto/Pool via AP)VATICAN CITY – With no papal travels abroad this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Pope Francis is cheering efforts for a youth jamboree, traditionally attended by pontiffs, in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2023. Francis on Sunday presided over a handover ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica involving young people gearing up for the next World Youth Day, which draws huge crowds of Catholics from around the globe. When Francis attended the last such event in Panama in 2019, organizers announced that the next jamboree would be held in Lisbon in 2022. Francis applauded after youths from Panama symbolically slid across the basilica's floor a towering wooden cross to counterparts from Portugal as part of preparations for Lisbon.

The international police operation “2BaGoldMule” led by Portuguese investigators and the FBI included 14 more European countries, under the umbrella of Europol. Europol said that more than 40 homes were searched by agents in Spain, Italy, Bulgaria and Latvia in the operation. The ring laundered money stolen from victims in the U.S. and European countries. The suspects face criminal investigations in the U.S., Portugal, Spain and the U.K.“This operation has shown that through this cooperation we can collectively tackle the global nature of cybercrime. This is the only way forward,” said Carlos Cabreiro, director of Portugal’s National Unit for Fighting Cybercrime.

The Portuguese soccer federation says Cristiano Ronaldo has tested positive for the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)LISBON – Cristiano Ronaldo has become the latest international soccer star to test positive for the coronavirus. The Portuguese soccer federation said Tuesday that Ronaldo was doing well and had no symptoms after he tested positive while with his country's national team. Players who tested positive for COVID-19 recently include Neymar, Kylian Mbappé, Paul Pogba, Paulo Dybala, Ángel Di María, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Diego Costa. That’s life.”Two other Portugal players, José Fonte and Anthony Lopes, tested positive for COVID-19 recently.

Two of Spain's biggest banks are poised to merge and create the country's largest bank in terms of domestic operations, with assets of more than 600 billion euros (dollars 708 billion). The deal brings the prospect of more job losses amid difficult times for the financial sector. A tie-up between CaixaBank, the largest bank in the domestic market, and Bankia, Spain's biggest mortgage lender, could herald other moves toward consolidation in the financial sector. It reported a profit of 1.7 billion euros ($2 billion) last year. It has around 15,600 staff and last year posted a profit of 541 million euros ($638.5 million).

Barcelona's Lionel Messi leaves he pitch at half time during the Champions League quarterfinal soccer match between Barcelona and Bayern Munich in Lisbon, Portugal, Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. (Rafael Marchante/Pool via AP)MADRID Barcelona is unwavering in its intention to keep Lionel Messi, who told the club earlier this week that he wanted to leave. Spanish media said Messi and his team contacted the club late this week to try to discuss his situation. Spanish radio station SER said on Saturday that Barcelona was ending its contract with its current law firm because it also worked for Messi. Training is scheduled to resume on Monday ahead of the start of the Spanish league season on the second weekend of September.

Barcelona's Lionel Messi during the Champions League quarterfinal match between FC Barcelona and Bayern Munich at the Luz stadium in Lisbon, Portugal, Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. Gerard Piqu says Barcelona "hit rock bottom" in an 8-2 humiliation from Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarterfinals. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez/Pool)BARCELONA Lionel Messi has told Barcelona he wants to leave the club after nearly two decades with the Spanish giants. Barcelona said the document sent by Messi referenced a clause allowing him to leave for free at the end of the season. The Spanish season would normally have ended in May but was pushed back because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Lyon's Moussa Dembele, centre, celebrates with teammates after scoring his team's third goal during the Champions League quarterfinal match between Manchester City and Lyon at the Jose Alvalade stadium in Lisbon, Portugal, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020. (Franck Fife/Pool Photo via AP)LISBON Lyon stunned Manchester City to reach the Champions League semifinals for the first time in a decade, with Moussa Dembl scoring twice for the French outsiders Saturday to seal a 3-1 win that sets up a meeting with Bayern Munich. It leaves Pep Guardiola without a Champions League title since 2011 with Barcelona, falling short in three attempts with Bayern Munich and once again in his fourth season at City. Guardiola's decision to deploy an unfamiliar five-man defense to match Lyon's system backfired with the back line easily beaten for Maxwel Cornet to score in the 24th minute. And there was a glaring miss by City forward Raheem Sterling, blazing the ball over an empty net, before Dembl scored again.