‘If we don't have hope, we don't have anything,’ said Václav Havel, the playwright, author, dissident and politician.

Asean is on the cusp of welcoming its first new member since 1999, as the young nation of Timor-Leste is set to join later ...

This is a huge success for Portugal, the fruit of Portuguese efforts. But it is also thanks to Europe’s solidarity as part of ...

The European Union has said hate speech is on the rise in Portugal, and the far-right is gaining support after ...

Known as the Carnation Revolution, it was a near-bloodless military coup staged in Portugal that brought down the ...

LISBON - Portuguese riot police detained several ultra-right protesters on Friday after clashes in downtown Lisbon marred celebrations of the 51st anniversary of the Carnation Revolution ...

In Portugal in 1974, she spontaneously gave red carnations to soldiers on their way to ending a dictatorship in what became known as the Carnation Revolution. By Phil Davison Celeste Caeiro ...

the Portuguese woman who handed out carnations to soldiers rebelling against a fascist dictatorship in a 1974 coup that became known globally as the Carnation Revolution, died on Friday.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution. It was on vinte e cinco de Abril, Portuguese for that fateful date of April 25, 1974, that the dictatorial Estado Novo or ...

The uprising was nicknamed the Carnation Revolution after the flowers that protesters placed in the soldiers' guns and tanks, in a rare example of a military coup being staged to install democracy.

They took to the streets in droves. Passersby put red flowers in the barrels of the soldiers’ guns, christening the uprising the Carnation Revolution. A few days later, on May 1 1974, the nations of ...