Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro defended his decision to let the United States use the Lajes airbase on Portugal's Azores Islands during the Iran bombing campaign ...

LISBON, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Portugal's government faces growing criticism over U.S. military operations at Lajes Air Base in the Azores following attacks on Iran, with opposition parties and experts ...

Pico—one of nine Portuguese Azorean islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that is dominated by a cone volcano—is about three times the size of the U.S. island of Nantucket, or 10% larger than ...

Life – we are often told – is about connections. Whom you know, how well you know them – but also, how closely you yourself ...

Whether it’s to watch whales, taste wine, hike or surf, summer offers the best time to visit Portugal’s North Atlantic islands. Millions of years ago, a dramatic series of volcanic events gave rise to ...

Winter forced Emanuel Alves to remove his boat from the water at the port of São Mateus in the Azores, the Portuguese ...

Why Terceira, the third-largest island in Portugal's Azores, should be your next European escape. It might be a volcanic rock in the middle of the Atlantic, but the island of Terceira, one of nine ...

TERCEIRA, Azores Islands -- Iria Gronke isn't bashful about why the food of her island home is more flavorful than most other Portuguese cuisine: It's thanks to prostitution and booze. "This island in ...

PALCUS serves as the primary national voice for over 2 million people of Portuguese descent in the United States ...