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Markets have reacted calmly so far, with Portugal's 10-year bond yield fluctuating largely in line with their EU peers in the past few days.

Portugal will head to the polls on Jan. 30 for a snap election called by the country's president on Thursday, a week after parliament threw out the minority Socialist government's 2022 budget bill, ending six years of relative political stability.

The Navy said Thursday it fired the two senior officers of a nuclearpowered attack submarine that was damaged in an underwater collision last month in the South China Sea. A sailor who served as a senior enlisted adviser to the commander and the executive...

A new project trumpeted by U.S. President Joe Biden in which companies underpin development of lowcarbon technologies through their buying power amounts to a big transformation, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said Thursday.

The filing of U.S. charges against a Chicago woman convicted of killing her wealthy mother during a luxury vacation in Bali has raised questions about how someone who has spent time in an overseas prison can be hauled into an American court on similar ch...

Xi- who leads the planet's largest emitter of the greenhouse gases responsible for climate change -- has not travelled outside of China since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.

A Mexican judge ordered the incarceration on Wednesday of Emilio Lozoya, the former chief executive of state oil company Pemex, while his corruption trial plays out, in a case critics argued has offered the embattled exCEO preferential treatment.

Amid an historic drought posing threats to future harvests, California farmers now say they are struggling to export the crops they do have because of a kink in the global supply chain that has left container ships lined up off the Southern California coa...

The former head of Mexicos staterun oil company has finally been ordered to jail on Wednesday, a year after he was extradited from Spain but offered to turn states evidence against other exofficials.

Turkeys health minister announced Wednesday that the country will start administering booster shots of the PfizerBioNTech COVID19 vaccine to people who received their second doses at least six months ago.

Republicans have won at least 50 seats in the Virginia House, ensuring at least a tie with Democrats who had fought to retain control.

To fill her days and keep her mind occupied, university student Hawa sits by the window in her Kabul home and pores over a book.

The U.S. Marshals Service said Tuesday that suspects being held in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection do not need to be removed from the District of Columbia jail complex despite their complaints about conditions there.

Two U.S. congresswomen renewed demands Tuesday for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to provide a formal apology and release records in connection with the January 2020 detainment of 200 Iranian Americans at the U.S.Canada border.

Three people, including an active duty Air Force member, have been arrested in the killing of a 19yearold woman who was last seen leaving a Halloween party over the weekend in Northern California, police said.

France has said Australia did not attempt to inform it of the cancellation until the day Canberra announced its deal with the United States and Britain.