Police in Portugal say that 11 of the 16 people killed when a streetcar derailed in the capital Lisbon were foreigners.

Portuguese officials are sifting through the wreckage of a streetcar in downtown Lisbon, trying to determine why the popular tourist attraction derailed during the busy summer season.

Dozens of Brazilian yoga aficionados saluted the sun in Rio de Janeiro for the inaugural class of a free course allowing residents of the Rocinha favela to qualify as yoga teachers.

Players from Liverpool and Portugal’s national team joined family and friends for the funeral of their teammate Diogo Jota and his brother.

Police investigating the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann have searched near an abandoned building in southern Portugal.

Portugal’s third general election in three years has failed to deliver the result that could break the worst spell of political instability for decades in the European Union country of 10.6 million people.

Portugal’s president has convened political parties for consultations after a general election delivered another minority government.

Portugal is headed for yet another minority government after the incumbent center-right Democratic Alliance won a general election but failed to secure a majority in Parliament in a vote that saw surge by a hard-right populist party.

The incumbent center-right Democratic Alliance has won Portugal’s general election but it fell short of a majority in Parliament and was set to take office as a minority government.

A blackout has brought much of Spain and Portugal to a standstill, affecting millions of people.

Portugal’s minority government has lost a confidence vote in parliament, forcing its resignation and bringing the European Union country’s third general election in three years.

During Carnival, the small Brazilian town of Sao Luiz do Paraitinga’s calm everyday life transforms into a joyful party known for its deep-rooted traditions, giant puppets and songs known in Portuguese as ‘marchinhas.

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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been discharged from the hospital after undergoing surgery to stop a brain bleed.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will undergo a new procedure on Thursday following up on an unplanned surgery earlier this week for a brain bleed.

Brazilian police have indicted a Colombian fish trader as the person who planned the slayings of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips in the Amazon in 2022, they announced Monday.

More than 100 wildfires are stretching thousands of firefighters to the limit in northern Portugal.

A federal court in Brazil has dismissed charges against one of three men arrested in the killings of an Indigenous peoples expert and a British journalist in the Amazon, ruling there wasn’t sufficient evidence to try him.

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.

There were no goals, one assist and no less than four selfie-pursuing field invaders for Cristiano Ronaldo in Portugal’s 3-0 win over Turkey that secured a spot in the European Championship round of 16.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has received a second $1 billion promise of military aid in as many days during a whirlwind tour of three European Union countries.

Thousands of Indigenous people, frustrated with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, are marching in Brazil's capital to demand official recognition of lands they live on.

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.

Guinness World Records has ruled against a Portuguese dog that died last year keeping the title of oldest canine ever.

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.

Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa has resigned while his government is involved in a widespread corruption probe.

A 31-year-old dog in Portugal that had been ranked as the world’s oldest dog ever has died, his owner said Monday.

A 31-year-old dog in Portugal that had been ranked as the world's oldest dog ever, has died.

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.

Pope Francis is making a five-day visit next week to Portugal, where a scandal that erupted earlier this year over Catholic Church sex abuse is still simmering.

Police in Portugal have ended the latest search for clues into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the British child who went missing in 2007 in southern Portugal.

Police searching for clues regarding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the British child who went missing in 2007 in Portugal, are concentrating operations in several areas around a dam including one where media reports say a lead suspect in the case often stayed.

Portuguese police aided by German and British officers have resumed their search for Madeleine McCann, the British child who disappeared in the country’s southern Algarve region 16 years ago.

Portuguese police say they'll resume searching for Madeleine McCann, the British toddler who disappeared in the Algarve region in 2007, in the next few days.

Guinness World Records says the world’s oldest dog recently celebrated his 31st birthday.

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.

Some 200 protesters have gathered beneath Rio de Janeiro’s world-famous Sugarloaf Mountain to protest the ongoing construction of ziplines aimed at boosting tourism, alleging it will cause unacceptable impacts.

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.

Brazilian police plan to indict a Colombian fish trader as mastermind behind the killings of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips, on June 5, 2022.

The horde of rioters who invaded government buildings on Jan. 8 in an attack on Brazil’s democracy left behind a trail of destruction whose full scope is only now coming into full view.

Portugal coach Fernando Santos has quit after eight years in the job and five days after Portugal’s exit from the World Cup in the quarterfinals.

Spain, France and Portugal have agreed to build a major undersea pipeline to transport hydrogen from the Iberian Peninsula to France and Europe by 2030.

Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos doesn’t shrink from the challenges thrown up by her latest lavish creation.

In a last-minute effort to win reelection on Sunday, the governor of Rondonia, in the Brazilian Amazon, revoked the protected designation of a large swath of forest about twice the size of New York City.

German prosecutors have charged a 45-year-old German man, who is also a suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann, with several sexual offenses he is alleged to have committed in Portugal between 2000 and 2017.

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.

Clergy sexual abuse cases are casting a pall over the Catholic Church in Portugal.

The governments of Spain and Portugal have criticized a European Union plan to reduce the bloc’s natural gas use by 15% to prepare for a potential cutoff by Russia this winter.

The pilot of a Portuguese firefighting plane has died when his plane crashed while on a firefighting operation in the northeast of the country.

More than 3,000 firefighters are battling alongside ordinary Portuguese citizens desperate to save their homes from several wildfires that continued to rage across the European country.

Firefighters from Portugal and Spain to southern France and Croatia are battling a spate of wildfires scorching Europe amid an unusual heat wave that authorities link to climate change.

Weather forecasters say Spain is expected to have its second heat wave in less than a month and that it will will last at least until the weekend.

Brazil’s federal police have arrested a fourth man possibly involved in the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon's Javari Valley.

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.

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.

Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego, who created bold, visceral works inspired by fairy tales and her own life, has died at the age of 87.

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The Human Rights Committee of the Brazilian Senate is sending a team to Yanomami territory in the Amazon rainforest after reports that a 12-year-old Indigenous girl was raped and murdered.

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.

The energy crisis provoked by Russia's war in Ukraine has helped Spain and Portugal emerge in an strategically advantageous position as an “energy island” in Europe with a relatively low reliance on Russian natural gas.

Italian Premier Mario Draghi has hosted leaders from three fellow Mediterranean countries to push for a common European response to the energy crisis that has been worsened by Russia's war in Ukraine.

A large cargo vessel carrying cars from Germany to the United States has sunk in the mid-Atlantic nearly two weeks after a fire broke out on board.

A fire aboard a huge car transport ship adrift in the mid-Atlantic is dying out.

Portugal’s winter drought is getting worse.

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.

Portuguese voters go to the polls Sunday, two years earlier than scheduled.

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

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

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 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.

Many Brazilians felt bearish about the new Wall Street-inspired bull sculpture outside the stock exchange, and didn’t have to wait long for it to crash: The statue has been removed a week after it was installed.

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

Portugal’s parliament has rejected the minority Socialist government’s proposed state budget for 2022.

Portugal has paid official homage to a Portuguese diplomat who during World War II helped save thousands of people from Nazi persecution.

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.

Italy is baking in sweltering temperatures that continue to drive deadly wildfires.

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.

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.

British vacationers have begun arriving in large numbers in southern Portugal for the first time in more than a year.

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.

A narrow footbridge suspended across a river canyon that claims to be the world’s longest pedestrian bridge has been officially inaugurated in northern Portugal.

Portugal is preparing to loosen virus restrictions as most of the Europe Union grapples with new COVID-19 cases and brings back curbs on what people can do.

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.

(AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)MEXICO CITY — Mexico has received its first shipment of Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine. ___WASHINGTON — The White House now says it expects to catch up by mid-week on deliveries of coronavirus vaccine doses that were delayed by severe weather. AdBeginning March 1, anyone aged 55 to 64 will be allowed to get a COVID-19 vaccine. ___OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma opened its second phase of coronavirus vaccinations on Monday, providing inoculations to public school teachers and staff and to adults of any age with illnesses that make them susceptible to the virus. There have been 419,853 coronavirus cases and 4,203 deaths due to COVID-19 in Oklahoma since the pandemic began, the state health department reported.

The facility is the central pillar of the 750 billion-euro ($908 billion) recovery plan adopted by EU leaders last year. Once that is ratified, "the (European) Commission will go to the market, raise money, and disburse,” Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. AdVon der Leyen also said that the EU aims to have 70% of adults across the 27-nation bloc, which has a population of around 450 million people, vaccinated by the end of the summer. So far, 19 EU countries have submitted draft plans to the Commission, which is in charge of their assessment. Seven other countries are well advanced in what von der Leyen described as a “humungous” process.

___AdSACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is expanding the list of people eligible for coronavirus vaccine by another 4 to 6 million people. Ad“What all this means is that we can expect to see more breakthrough cases,” Dean Sidelinger, the health authority’s state health officer, said. Every life that is lost now is all the more tragic as vaccines are beginning to be rolled out.”Globally, there’s been 107 million coronavirus cases and 2.3 million confirmed deaths. Italy has registered a total of 2.6 million cases and more than 93,000 confirmed deaths. Just over 4% of Montana residents have received both doses of the coronavirus vaccine.

The airplane is bringing 26 German army medics along with medical equipment to help out at Portuguese hospitals under stress from the recent increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)LISBON – A German army medical team flew into Lisbon on Wednesday to help Portugal cope with a pandemic surge that has made it the world’s worst-hit country by size of population. Portuguese Health Minister Marta Temido said they would be deployed at an intensive care unit at Lisbon’s Hospital da Luz with eight beds. Hospital wards and ICUs were on average at 94% of capacity at the start of this week, according to Portuguese health officials. AdThe medics are being given temporary credentials to work in Portugal, which provides liability insurance for any claims against them.

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.

India’s total positive cases since the start of the epidemic have reached 10.6 million, the second highest after the United States with 25.43 million cases. India started inoculating health workers on Jan. 16 in what is likely the world’s largest COVID-19 vaccination campaign. The FDA said Tuesday there have been reports of hospitalizations and death linked to the sanitizers reported to U.S. poison control centers and state health departments. The state’s health agency on Tuesday said third-party administrators would take over ordering and distributing vaccine doses with a new state secretary in charge of logistics. On Tuesday, the CDC reported just over half of the 41 million doses distributed to states have been put in people’s arms.

In its fight against COVID-19, Portugal lifted restrictions on gatherings and movements for four days over Christmas so that people could spend the festive season with family and friends. By Jan. 6, Portugal’s number of new daily COVID-19 cases surged past 10,000 for the first time. Portugal’s problems illustrate the risk of letting down pandemic guards when a new, fast-spreading variant is lurking unseen. Pfizer, which makes a similar COVID-19 vaccine, says its shot appears effective against the strain from Britain, although questions remain about the South Africa variant. Only on Saturday did the government, blaming the now-devastating COVID-19 surge on the variant, stop flights to and from the United Kingdom.