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Madrid. Three men have died from heatstroke in Spain as Europe sweltered in a record heatwave Friday, with temperatures hitting a scorching 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) in some areas and meteorologists saying only scant relief is in sight in the coming days, reported AFP> 

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The winner of Eurovision 2018 became Israel with the song "Toy''.

Netta Barzilai was very exsited and with tears in her eyes she thanked the people who chose the different and said that she expected all of them the following year in Jerusalem.

The second place was for Cyprus's song.

The running order was proposed by Christer Björkman, Contest Producer from the production team of Host Broadcaster RTP, and approved by the EBU's Executive Supervisor and the Chairman of the Reference Group, the governing body of the contest on behalf of all 43 participating broadcasters.

Some 2,000 Turkish Jews have applied for Portuguese citizenship after Portugal's government decided to grant nationality through naturalization to the descendants of Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Portugal and Spain in the 15th century, Portuguese Ambassador to Ankara Paula Leal da Silva has said.

About 12,000 of our Bulgarians live and work in Portugal. This was announced today by the chairman of the Bulgaria-Portugal Parliamentary Friendship Group Boris Yachev during a meeting of the group with the Portuguese Ambassador Luis Ferras quoted by the NFSB press center.

Portugal's Interior Minister Constanca Urbano de Sousa resigned from her post after fires killed more than a hundred people in the country's two worst disasters of recent times, the government said on Wednesday, quoted by Reuters.

Portugal today is in a three-day national mourning to commemorate the casualties of ongoing forest fires, the France press reported on Tuesday.

Summer might be officially over, but that does not seem to perturb sexy Greek actress Athina Oikonomakou, who took some time to escape to, no, not her favourite Mykonos, but to Lisbon in Portugal. The beautiful Athina kept her legions of followers on Instagram up to date, as she posted photos of her sojourn.

A left-wing consensus and changes made to the country's bailout program helped Portugal's economy to rebound, Secretary of State for Defense Marcos Perestrello has said.

LISBON - On the second day of a state visit to Portugal, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic met on Thursday with Portuguese Parliament Speaker Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, who backed Serbia's European integration process.

Nikolic said the two nations had much in common and that there was significant room for cooperation, primarily in the economy.