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Passenger Breaks Into Easyjet Cockpit, Forces Plane To Make U-Turn
A passenger suffering from delirium tried to break into the cockpit of an Easyjet flight from France to Portugal, forcing the jet to return to Lyon airport, police and the company said Saturday.
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Sporting Lisbon Match Postponed Due To Police Shortage
Portuguese league leaders Sporting Lisbon's match at Famalicao was postponed on Saturday due to a lack of police officers, on sick leave as part of a protest demanding better pay
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Tourist Sparks Bomb Alert At Restaurant By Confusing Pomegranate For Grenade
The police took the tourist to a nearby station to question him. They released him after finding that he had no weapons.
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Man Cheats Over 50 Goans On Pretext Of Arranging Portuguese Passport, Arrested
The Goa police have arrested a man for cheating more than 50 people from the coastal state on the pretext of helping them acquire birth certificates from Portugal as well as Portuguese passports.
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Madeleine McCann Case: Sniffer Dogs Join Search At Portuguese Reservoir
Police deployed heavy equipment and sniffer dogs on Wednesday, the second day of a search at a remote reservoir in Portugal for evidence linking a German suspect to the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann 16 years ago.
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Madeleine McCann: 16 Years On, Search For Missing Child Resumes In Portugal
Portuguese police will on Tuesday search a reservoir inland from where British three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007, authorities said on Monday, in the first formal development in the case in Portugal in several years.
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Madeleine McCann's Parents Lose Libel Case Against Portuguese Cop
The parents of Madeleine McCann, a three-year-old British girl whose disappearance sparked horror 15 years ago, have lost their privacy case at Europe's top rights court against a Portuguese police inspector.
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In Record Haul, Over 5 Tonnes Of Cocaine Seized From Portugal's Coast
Portuguese and Spanish authorities have seized 5.2 tonnes of cocaine from a sailboat on the high seas and arrested three suspects, in Portugal's largest drug bust in 15 years and a world-record haul from a sailboat, police said on Monday.
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Arrested Portuguese Hacker Is Football Leaks 'Whistleblower': Lawyers
The man, named by his lawyers as 30-year-old Rui Pinto, was detained in Hungary on Wednesday on a European arrest warrant filed by Portuguese police.
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Pilot Detained After Being Found Drunk In Cockpit
The co-pilot of a Portuguese airline was detained in Stuttgart after being found drunk in the cockpit just before take off, German police and prosecutors said Saturday.
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Smuggler Caught With Cocaine In 'Fake Buttocks' At Airport
Portuguese police have detained a man who arrived at Lisbon airport on a flight from Brazil wearing "fake buttocks" that contained about a kilo of cocaine, police and reports said Tuesday.
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Selfie Gone Wrong Fells 126-Year-Old Statue Of Portuguese King
A young man's attempt to take a selfie snapshot with the statue of a 16th century Portuguese king ended badly when the 126-year-old statue crashed to the ground and shattered, police said on Wednesday.
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Portuguese Police Arrest Former PM Jose Socrates in Corruption Investigation
Portuguese police have arrested former Socialist prime minister Jose Socrates and three other people in an investigation of suspected tax fraud, corruption and money-laundering, the Prosecutor General's office said on Saturday.
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Bank Scandal Tarnishes Powerful Portuguese Family
Portugal's Espirito Santo family business survived wars, dictatorship, revolution and family feuds for almost 150 years. Now, one of Europe's last banking dynasties is being stripped of its wealth and influence amid accounting irregularities, huge unreported debts, record losses at the family bank and a police investigation.
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Bank Scandal Tarnishes Powerful Portuguese Family
Portugal's Espirito Santo family business survived wars, dictatorship, revolution and family feuds for almost 150 years. Now, one of Europe's last banking dynasties is being stripped of its wealth and influence amid accounting irregularities, huge unreported debts, and a police investigation.
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Passenger Breaks Into Easyjet Cockpit, Forces Plane To Make U-Turn
A passenger suffering from delirium tried to break into the cockpit of an Easyjet flight from France to Portugal, forcing the jet to return to Lyon airport, police and the company said Saturday.
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Sporting Lisbon Match Postponed Due To Police Shortage
Portuguese league leaders Sporting Lisbon's match at Famalicao was postponed on Saturday due to a lack of police officers, on sick leave as part of a protest demanding better pay
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Tourist Sparks Bomb Alert At Restaurant By Confusing Pomegranate For Grenade
The police took the tourist to a nearby station to question him. They released him after finding that he had no weapons.
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Man Cheats Over 50 Goans On Pretext Of Arranging Portuguese Passport, Arrested
The Goa police have arrested a man for cheating more than 50 people from the coastal state on the pretext of helping them acquire birth certificates from Portugal as well as Portuguese passports.
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Madeleine McCann Case: Sniffer Dogs Join Search At Portuguese Reservoir
Police deployed heavy equipment and sniffer dogs on Wednesday, the second day of a search at a remote reservoir in Portugal for evidence linking a German suspect to the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann 16 years ago.
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Madeleine McCann: 16 Years On, Search For Missing Child Resumes In Portugal
Portuguese police will on Tuesday search a reservoir inland from where British three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007, authorities said on Monday, in the first formal development in the case in Portugal in several years.
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Madeleine McCann's Parents Lose Libel Case Against Portuguese Cop
The parents of Madeleine McCann, a three-year-old British girl whose disappearance sparked horror 15 years ago, have lost their privacy case at Europe's top rights court against a Portuguese police inspector.
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In Record Haul, Over 5 Tonnes Of Cocaine Seized From Portugal's Coast
Portuguese and Spanish authorities have seized 5.2 tonnes of cocaine from a sailboat on the high seas and arrested three suspects, in Portugal's largest drug bust in 15 years and a world-record haul from a sailboat, police said on Monday.
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Arrested Portuguese Hacker Is Football Leaks 'Whistleblower': Lawyers
The man, named by his lawyers as 30-year-old Rui Pinto, was detained in Hungary on Wednesday on a European arrest warrant filed by Portuguese police.
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Pilot Detained After Being Found Drunk In Cockpit
The co-pilot of a Portuguese airline was detained in Stuttgart after being found drunk in the cockpit just before take off, German police and prosecutors said Saturday.
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Smuggler Caught With Cocaine In 'Fake Buttocks' At Airport
Portuguese police have detained a man who arrived at Lisbon airport on a flight from Brazil wearing "fake buttocks" that contained about a kilo of cocaine, police and reports said Tuesday.
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Selfie Gone Wrong Fells 126-Year-Old Statue Of Portuguese King
A young man's attempt to take a selfie snapshot with the statue of a 16th century Portuguese king ended badly when the 126-year-old statue crashed to the ground and shattered, police said on Wednesday.
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Portuguese Police Arrest Former PM Jose Socrates in Corruption Investigation
Portuguese police have arrested former Socialist prime minister Jose Socrates and three other people in an investigation of suspected tax fraud, corruption and money-laundering, the Prosecutor General's office said on Saturday.
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Bank Scandal Tarnishes Powerful Portuguese Family
Portugal's Espirito Santo family business survived wars, dictatorship, revolution and family feuds for almost 150 years. Now, one of Europe's last banking dynasties is being stripped of its wealth and influence amid accounting irregularities, huge unreported debts, record losses at the family bank and a police investigation.
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Bank Scandal Tarnishes Powerful Portuguese Family
Portugal's Espirito Santo family business survived wars, dictatorship, revolution and family feuds for almost 150 years. Now, one of Europe's last banking dynasties is being stripped of its wealth and influence amid accounting irregularities, huge unreported debts, and a police investigation.
