Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Portugal's Carnation Revolution 50th anniversary LISBON (Reuters) - Portuguese riot police detained several ultra-right protesters ...

BOSTON – A special program at the Boston Public Library will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, which put an end to the longest-running dictatorship in Europe and ...

In the year and a half that followed the Carnation Revolution, Portugal finally abandoned its colonial project, negotiating the independence of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, and Cape Verde. The ...

Portugal's President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa connected Pope Francis's life and work to the values of the Carnation Revolution. Sousa highlighted the Pope's focus on peace, justice, and fighting ...

LISBON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - 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 ...

The 90-year-old Celeste Caeiro, known as Celeste of the Carnations, taking part in the 50th anniversary parade of the Carnation Revolution earlier this year - PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA ...

Thousands of people took part in a rally on April 25 to mark Portugal's establishment of democracy, ignoring a government decision to postpone events to mourn the death of Pope Francis. The ...