Portugal

7 defendants convicted in Portugal sex abuse trial (AP)

September 3rd, 2010

Bernardo Teixeira, one of the alleged victims of child sex abuse at a state-run children's home in Lisbon called Casa Pia arrives at a court in Lisbon, Friday, Sept. 3 2010 for the verdict of the major child sex abuse trial that has lasted almost six years. A former worker at a state-run orphanage admitted to participating in a network that systematically abused children and implicated six other defendants including Carlos Cruz . (AP Photo/Armando Franca)AP - A Portuguese court found six men and one woman guilty Friday of crimes relating to child sex abuse in a major trial that lasted nearly six years, a…

Portugal vs Cameroon [3-1] - International Friendly [01/06/2010]

June 18th, 2010

Portugal entered the game with three changes to the starting XI that had faced Cape Verde a week ago. Duda replaced Fabio Coentrao at left-back, Raul Meireles filled Miguel Veloso’s…

Ash closes airports in Spain, Portugal, Italy (AP)

May 9th, 2010

This image provided by NASA shows the ash plume from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano over the North Atlantic acquired on Friday May 7, 2010. mammoth cloud of volcanic ash stretching 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) across the North Atlantic is forcing most flights between North America and Europe to divert into a sky-high traffic jam, Irish and European air authorities said. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Eurocontrol says it expects further flight disruptions in European airspace as a plume of volcanic ash snakes through southern France, Switzerland and northern Italy.


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Europe debt crisis spreads to Portugal (AP)

April 27th, 2010

Unemployed school teachers chant slogans at an anti-government demonstration staged by civil servants outside the Greek Parliament in Athens, Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Greece's debt crisis intensified Tuesday as its credit rating cut to junk status. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)AP - Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s pushed Greece to the brink of a financial abyss Tuesday and downgraded Portugal’s debt, too, fueling fears of a continent-wide debt meltdown in…

Fierce storms in France, Spain, Portugal kill 16 (AP)

February 28th, 2010

AP - A violent late winter storm with fierce rain and hurricane-strength winds battered France, Spain and Portugal Sunday, leaving at least 16 people dead.

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