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After a long battle, Portugal on Friday passed a law legalising euthanasia for people in great suffering and with incurable diseases, joining just a handful of countries around the world.

A 62-year-old French sailor survives 16 hours in capsized boat – by using an air bubble inside his boat after it capsized.  

France24 says Portugal and France on Sunday battled major forest fires as temperatures rose sharply this weekend. In Portugal, a blaze broke out in the Mafra area, north of Lisbon.

France24 says Firefighters battled wildfires in Spain and Portugal Tuesday as Western Europe faced its second heatwave in weeks which threatened glaciers in the Alps and worsened drought conditions.

France24 says LESS THAN A MONTH after the previous heat wave, mercury levels started to rise in France on Monday with the country braced for a heatwave this week.

Aljazeera says WILDFIRES are sweeping across northern and central Portugal, where an estimated 3,000 firefighters and more than 60 aircraft are battling to quell the flames amid scorching temperatures.

Euronews says Almost all of Portugal was in severe drought at the end of May, the country’s weather service (IPMA) said on Thursday.

France24 says Portugal’s ruling Socialists unexpectedly won an outright majority to govern solo after snap elections on Sunday.

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More than 1,000 firefighters battled a major wildfire on Monday amid scorching temperatures in Portugal

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A bus carrying German tourists plunged off a road and overturned on the Portuguese island of Madeira