Saturday, November 16, 2024

Spain criticized for unequally priced 'equality stamps'

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s postal service is feeling a backlash from its attempt to highlight racial inequality.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Spain criticized for unequally priced 'equality stamps'

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s postal service is feeling a backlash from its attempt to highlight racial inequality.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Spain criticized for unequally priced 'equality stamps'

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s postal service is feeling a backlash from its attempt to highlight racial inequality.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Spain criticized for unequally priced 'equality stamps'

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s postal service is feeling a backlash from its attempt to highlight racial inequality.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

EU weighs Belarus sanctions at sectors close to leader

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — European Union nations sketched out plans Thursday for new sanctions against Belarus, targeting economic sectors close to its authoritarian leader, as they sought to strike back at him for the diversion of a passenger jet to arrest a dissident journalist.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

EU weighs Belarus sanctions at sectors close to leader

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — European Union nations sketched out plans Thursday for new sanctions against Belarus, targeting economic sectors close to its authoritarian leader, as they sought to strike back at him for the diversion of a passenger jet to arrest a dissident journalist.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

EU leaders attend summit in person for 1st time this year

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — On the list of things not to do during a pandemic, holding big international gatherings is close to the top.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

COVID-19 variant brings new dimension to Europe's pandemic

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — In the first week of December, Portugal’s prime minister gave his pandemic-weary people an early Christmas gift: restrictions on gatherings and travel due to COVID-19 would be lifted from Dec. 23-26 so they could spend the holiday season with family and friends.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Center-right incumbent wins Portugal's presidential election

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s president was returned to office for a second term with a resounding victory Sunday in an election held amid a devastating COVID-19 surge that has made the European country the worst in the world for cases and deaths.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

COVID-19 variant brings new dimension to Europe's pandemic

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — In the first week of December, Portugal’s prime minister gave his pandemic-weary people an early Christmas gift: restrictions on gatherings and travel due to COVID-19 would be lifted from Dec. 23-26 so they could spend the holiday season with family and friends.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

COVID-19 variant brings new dimension to Europe's pandemic

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — In the first week of December, Portugal’s prime minister gave his pandemic-weary people an early Christmas gift: restrictions on gatherings and travel due to COVID-19 would be lifted from Dec. 23-26 so they could spend the holiday season with family and friends.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Center-right incumbent wins Portugal's presidential election

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s president was returned to office for a second term with a resounding victory Sunday in an election held amid a devastating COVID-19 surge that has made the European country the worst in the world for cases and deaths.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Center-right incumbent wins Portugal's presidential election

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s president was returned to office for a second term with a resounding victory Sunday in an election held amid a devastating COVID-19 surge that has made the European country the worst in the world for cases and deaths.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Exit poll: Incumbent wins Portugal's presidential election

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s president appeared poised to win a second term in office Sunday, in an election held amid a devastating COVID-19 surge that has made the European country the worst in the world for cases and deaths.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Portugal chooses a president amid a severe pandemic surge

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal held a presidential election Sunday, with the moderate incumbent candidate strongly favored to earn a second five-year term as a devastating COVID-19 surge grips the European Union nation.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Portugal goes into lockdown amid record-breaking virus surge

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s government ordered the country into a coronavirus lockdown Wednesday, but with exceptions so a presidential election can go ahead on Jan. 24.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Gibraltar’s border with Spain still in doubt after Brexit

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — While corks may have popped in London and Brussels over the end to a four-year saga known as Brexit, there is one rocky speck of British soil still left in limbo.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Gibraltar’s border with Spain still in doubt after Brexit

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — While corks may have popped in London and Brussels over the end to a four-year saga known as Brexit, there is one rocky speck of British soil still left in limbo.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Portugal's armed forces help nursing homes battle the virus

AMADORA, Portugal (AP) — Tears well up in Diana Correia’s eyes as she recalls the October day that 24 of the 55 residents of her nursing home in Portugal tested positive for COVID-19.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Portugal unveils its national vaccination plan for COVID-19

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal is aiming to vaccinate almost 1 million people against the coronavirus between January and April at the latest, and perhaps by the end of February, depending on the pace of vaccine deliveries, officials said Thursday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Portugal, Hungary hunker down against Europe's virus surge

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal and Hungary on Monday became the latest European countries to impose curfews against the resurgent tide of coronavirus infections and deaths lashing the continent and filing its emergency wards. But glimmers of hope emerged from France, Belgium and elsewhere that tough restrictions might be starting …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Pain of EU crisis felt in Portugal

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Portugal lowered to junk status as big strike hits

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

U.S. fugitive hid in Portugal hamlet

ALMOCAGEME, Portugal - He lived the sweet life for decades. But nobody knew he was on the run.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Portugal heads for election despite bailout threat

LISBON, Portugal - Portugal's political parties opted Friday to hold an early election rather than form a new government, even though that could hasten the debt-stressed nation's financial woes and force it to take a bailout.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Debt turmoil, contagion fears sweep Europe

LISBON, Portugal - Europe struggled mightily Friday to keep the debt crisis from engulfing country after country. Portugal passed austerity measures to fend off the speculative trades pushing it toward a bailout and Ireland rushed to negotiate its own imminent rescue.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO