Portugal’s Parliament Greenlights Burqa Ban to Protect Women and Girls
Portugal has moved to ban burqas used for “gender or religious motives,” and fines for not abiding by the rules are steep.

Portugal has moved to ban burqas used for “gender or religious motives,” and fines for not abiding by the rules are steep.

The Portuguese lawmakers passed a bill to bar the “concealment of faces in public spaces” in a bid to outlaw the Islamic practice of veiling women, which opponents have argued represents repression of women.

The death toll in the crash of a famous Lisbon streetcar popular with tourists rose to 17 Thursday after two of the 23 injured people died, an emergency services official said.

A crowd of attendees of a bullfight in Portugal were shocked when a bull gored a young, up-and-coming bullfighter to death in front of them.

The street organiser met with police at a London airport on Monday afternoon and was later reportedly released on bail without being charged.

Two American archaeologists claim they have found the resting place of a Portuguese ship from 1721 that was carrying $138 million in treasure near the Madagascar coast.

Diogo Jota, the 28-year-old Liverpool star killed along with his brother in a tragic car accident in Spain on Thursday, was on a 10-hour drive to Spanish ferry because doctors forbade him from flying.

Portugal’s populist anti-immigration Chega Party has scored its best ever election result with a record vote share confirmed Monday that marked the end of the country’s two-party dominance.

Spain is running its national power grid in “strengthened mode”, using more nuclear and natural gas in place of the renewables.

The green lobby’s “purist” solutions of simply ending carbon altogether is “totally misguided”, Tony Blair wrote.

Spain’s energy network remains silent on the cause of the European blackout, but said a solar power failure was “very possible”.

A major power outage has been reported in Spain and Portugal, including their capitals.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio asked allied foreign ministers gathered in Brussels on Thursday to increase their defense spending to five percent of their gross domestic products (GDP) – a very substantial increase for most members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and considerably more than the even the United States spends as a percentage of GDP.

Russian captain of a ship that rammed into a U.S. govt-contracted jet fuel tanker off England has been arrested on a Manslaughter charge.

U.S. Under-Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Jose Fernandez on Monday accused China of over-producing lithium in a predatory scheme to push down market prices and drive competing suppliers out of business.

A pod of killer whales sank a yacht in the Mediterranean Sea in a “terrifying” attack that lasted for two hours.

A “vast conservative shift is well under way” in Europe according a survey which found voters are rejecting the globalist agenda of Brussels.

Europe is continuing its shift to the right, as the populist Chega party saw major gains in the elections in Portugal on Sunday.

Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador who just won reelection, will speak at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) just outside Washington, DC, this month, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

Donald Trump told Breitbart News that the recent wave of populist and conservative victories, from Italy to Argentina and more, show that international populist conservatives’ movement is “stronger” than it was in 2016.

New Year’s Eve this weekend has ushered in the most eventful of political seasons in America: a presidential election year.

Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa said Tuesday he is resigning after being involved in a widespread corruption probe.

A wave of withdrawals has hit the prestigious Web Summit based in Lisbon, Portugal after its CEO, Paddy Cosgrave, made contentious comments about Israel’s military actions, sparking a significant backlash from the tech and AI community.

A man who identifies as a woman has been crowned “Miss Portugal,” making him the second man in the race for this year’s “Miss Universe” title.

A group of climate activists with the Climáximo movement was shoved out of the way Tuesday when it blocked heavy traffic in Lisbon, Portugal.

Locals woke up on Sunday morning to a torrent of red wine flowing through the town after two enormous storage tanks at a local winery burst.

The famous car brand Porsche is in hot water due to its video advertisement that erased an iconic statue of Jesus Christ in Lisbon, Portugal, from the background.

Pope Francis began his four-day visit to Portugal for World Youth Day by blasting capitalism, populism, and insufficient attention to migrants and climate change.

The U.S. Women’s National Team is limping badly through the Women’s World Cup this year and on Tuesday barely eked by to advance.

First Lady Jill Biden will skip Israel on her current trip to the Middle East and North Africa, visiting Jordan and Egypt to “strengthen our relationships” with allies in the region but flying over the country between them.

Afghan asylum seeker arrested for the fatal stabbing of two women in a Shia Muslim centre in Portugal in a potential terrorist attack.

A few weeks after naming a dog the oldest one living, Guinness World Records has given the title of oldest dog ever to another canine.

An activist ran across the field putting a halt to Monday’s World Cup game between Portugal and Uruguay to protest for gay rights.

Pope Francis called for zero tolerance of the sexual abuse of children, telling Portuguese television that such crimes are “diabolical.”

Brazil received from Portugal the preserved heart of Dom Pedro I, a 19th-century Portuguese monarch who granted Brazil independence from Portugal in 1822, on Tuesday with honors reserved for a head of state to mark the nation’s 200th independence day, Reuters reported.

Portugal’s government will liberalise migration rules, using immigration as a quick fix for gaps in the labour market.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari claimed his country was ready to fill a natural gas supply gap in Europe.

Police in Portugal said Thursday they found just over 8 metric tons (8.8 short tons) of cocaine concealed inside banana shipments from Colombia.

A 41-year-old migrant from Pakistan has been arrested after being accused of sexually abusing a six-year-old Ukrainian refugee child.

The Spanish leftist government, along with neighbouring Portugal, have moved to cap gas prices at 50 euros per megawatt-hour in a bid to reduce growing electricity costs for citizens and businesses. Both Spain and Portugal announced Tuesday that they have
