LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portuguese workers issued a spontaneous “Ja chega!” — “That’s enough!” — to the government Tuesday, rejecting its appeal to stay at their jobs during Carnaval, one of their most beloved holidays.

Elaborate costumes, scary masks

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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Garish costumes, scary masks and bright wigs trumped dreary economic austerity Tuesday as most Portuguese defied a government appeal to keep working on one of their deeply beloved holidays: Carnival.

It was a spontaneous “Ja chega!”

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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s jobless rate jumped to a record 14 percent at the end of last year, the national statistics agency reported Thursday in the latest grim sign of the bailed-out country’s worsening economic problems.

The unemployment rate

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Oil rose to near $102 a barrel on Wednesday after Iran announced it would stop crude exports to six European countries and investors were heartened from positive developments in Europe’s sovereign debt crisis.

Iranian state TV said Wednesday that Tehran

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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s economy contracted by 1.5 percent last year, pitching it into a double-dip recession amid an acute financial crisis, the country’s statistics agency reports.

Portugal needed a €78 billion ($103 billion) bailout last year to avoid

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Portugal’s promises to introduce a raft of tax hikes, pay cuts and other

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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A 24-hour strike by Portuguese public transport workers caused some disruption for travelers but had a patchy turnout Thursday, suggesting resistance to the government’s austerity program is softening.

Train services ran mostly as usual, even though

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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — In a six-room Lisbon office where until last year more than a dozen people worked, engineer Joao Paulo Lopes sits alone in silence amid dark computer screens, patiently waiting for a bankruptcy lawyer to shut the

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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s government says it is selling a 40 percent stake in national grid operator REN to China’s State Grid Corp. and Oman Oil for €592 million ($778 million).

Portugal is privatizing some state companies to comply

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- Portugal raised $1.97 billion in short-term debt auction on Wednesday.

DEBT AUCTION: Portugal comfortably raised €1.5 billion ($1.97 billion) in a short-term debt auction Wednesday. Borrowing costs were lower than they have been recently, and demand strong, the

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— Portugal’s Supreme Court has refused a second appeal by the U.S. to extradite American fugitive George Wright.

A court ruling provided to The Associated Press on Wednesday showed judges confirmed a decision last month to deny a U.S. appeal

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— The euro rose to a five-week high against the dollar Thursday after the U.S. released encouraging durable goods and jobs reports.

Investors also bought euros after Germany’s consumer confidence survey rose in February.

Orders for durable goods rose last

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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The prime ministers of Spain and Portugal said Tuesday they want next week’s European Union summit to adopt measures that will help shield them against contagion from Greece’s debt crisis.

The Iberian peninsula neighbors are both

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