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U.S. Air Force fighter aircraft F-35 performs aerobatic maneuvers on the third day of the Aero India 2025, a biennial event, at Yelahanka air base in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)

Europe and Canada are eyeing alternatives to American-made fighter jets. Here’s why

Questions are mounting in Canada and in Europe over whether big-ticket purchases of high-end U.S. weaponry are still a wise strategic choice.
 
Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, left, speaks with Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro, right, during a meeting of the council of state at the Belem presidential palace in Lisbon, Thursday, March 13, 2025, after Montenegro's government saw its motion of confidence defeated in parliament. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Portugal is to hold an early election in May after minority government’s fall

 
Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro, second right, gestures during a debate preceding a confidence motion vote at the Portuguese parliament in Lisbon, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

What to know about the collapse of Portugal’s government

 
Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro walks back to his seat after delivering a speech during a debate preceding a confidence motion vote at the Portuguese parliament in Lisbon, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Portugal’s government loses confidence vote, triggering early election amid prolonged instability

 
Portugal's Prime Minister Luis Montenegro arrives for an EU Summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Havana)

Portugal braces for a possible 3rd election in 3 years after government calls confidence vote

 

Portuguese village’s carnival mural pays tribute to Pope Francis

A mural inspired by a visit and meeting with the pontiff in the Vatican in January has been unveiled Tuesday in the village of Pondence in northeast Portugal. (AP Video shot by Helena Alves)
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Portuguese Carnival brings joy and devils to village of Podence

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Private burial service held in Egypt for Aga Khan, hereditary imam of Shiite Ismaili Muslims

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In this June 28, 2011 file photo, Boston Red Sox pitcher Bobby Jenks throws during a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Former White Sox All-Star, World Series champion Bobby Jenks undergoing stomach cancer treatment

 
People carry the coffin of Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV and 49th hereditary imam of the Shiite Ismaili Muslims, who died Tuesday in Portugal, to be buried at the Aga Khan mausoleum, in Aswan, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Haytham Fahmy)

Aga Khan, the leader of Ismaili Muslims, laid to rest in Egypt during private burial ceremony

 

Spain and Portugal qualify for the 2027 Rugby World Cup

 
Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini, center, who was named Wednesday as the new Aga Khan, carries the coffin during the funeral of Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV, at the Ismaili Muslim community center in Lisbon, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ana Brigida)

Aga Khan’s funeral service held in Portugal ahead of private burial ceremony in Egypt

 
The Aga Khan addresses an audience about the challenges to a pluralistic society Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015, at the Memorial Church on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims and a philanthropist, dies at 88

 
Feyenoord's Santiago Gimenez celebrates after scoring his side's second goal during the Champions League opening phase soccer match between Feyenoord and Bayern Munich, at De Kuip Stadium, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

João Félix, Santiago Giménez among new Milan signings on busy transfer deadline day

 

Four tourists drowned off the eastern coast of the Dominican Republic and two others were rescued

 

Venezuela accuses opposition of coordinating attacks on diplomatic facilities in 5 countries

 
In this photo released by LongeviQuest, Sister Inah Canabarro, 115, puts her hands together in prayer, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Friday, February 16, 2024. (Carlos Macedo/LongeviQuest, via AP)

A soccer-loving nun from Brazil is now the world’s oldest living person

 

FIFA players of the year

 
Bayern's Harry Kane sits on the pitch after getting injured during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich at the Signal-Iduna Park in Dortmund, Germany, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. (Federico Gambarini/dpa/dpa via AP)

Harry Kane set to return for Bayern Munich next week after injury

 
Portugal fans cheer before the World Cup quarterfinal soccer match between Morocco and Portugal, at Al Thumama Stadium in Doha, Qatar, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Cristiano Ronaldo says 2030 World Cup will be ‘most special’ yet after Portugal confirmed as co-host

 
Norwegian soccer official Lise Klaveness speaks during the FIFA congress at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center in Doha, Qatar, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, file)

Norway plans to protest FIFA and abstain from decision giving 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia

 
Customers dine during lunch hour at the family-run Restaurante Litoral in Macao, on Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Anthony Kwan)

Preserving Macao’s fusion cuisine with recipes passed down generations

 
Switzerland's Granit Xhaka reacts during a Nations League soccer match between Spain and Switzerland, at the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium in Tenerife, Spain, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Angel Fernandez)

Croatia, Denmark qualify for Nations League quarterfinals with draws

 
Scotland score their third try of the game, via a penalty try during the Autumn Nations series rugby union match between Scotland and Portugal at the Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Saturday Nov. 16, 2024. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)

Portugal beaten but not disgraced by Scotland in rugby loss at Murrayfield

 

Scotland 59, Portugal 21

 
FILE - Vote counting gets underway at a polling station in Maputo, Mozambique, in general elections Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Carlos Uqueio, File)

Mozambique’s ruling party candidate declared winner of presidential election as rigging claims swirl

 

Three are detained in Lisbon’s second night of unrest after police shot dead a man during an arrest

 
Mozambican police deploys in the streets of Maputo, Mozambique, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, during a nationwide shutdown protest following a disputed Oct. 9 election. (AP Photo/Carlos Uqueio)

Police in Mozambique fire tear gas at opposition politician as post-election tensions soar

 
Daniel Chapo, right, presidential candidate for the ruling Front for the Liberation of Mozambique party, holds up his finger after casting his vote in the general elections, in Inhambane, Mozambique, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo)

Long-ruling party leads in Mozambique’s election as opposition candidate calls for strikes

 
A fire rages on the hills around Sever do Vouga, a town in northern Portugal that has been surrounded by forest fires, Tuesday night, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruno Fonseca)

Portugal declares a state of calamity as wildfires rage out of control

 
A man carries a fire extinguisher and seeks on the phone while a metalworking warehouse burns in Sever do Vouga, a town in northern Portugal that has been surrounded by forest fires, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruno Fonseca)

Wildfires in Portugal blamed for at least six deaths as Europe sends aircraft to help

 
Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo reacts during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between Portugal and Croatia at the Luz stadium in Lisbon, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Ronaldo scores 900th goal and San Marino earns first competitive win. Spain held by Serbia

 
Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates after scoring his side's second goal during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between Portugal and Croatia at the Luz stadium in Lisbon, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Ronaldo on scoring his 900th career goal: ‘It was emotional’

 

Man City sells Joao Cancelo to Saudi champion Al Hilal for $28 million

 
Tourists visit the old center of Sintra, Portugal, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Ana Brigida)

Too many people, not enough management: A look at the chaos of overtourism in the summer of 2024

 
This family handout provided by Georges Martin shows his brother Joseph Figueira Martin, playing with a sloth at the ecological park in Manaus, Brazil, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023. Two months after Joseph Figueira Martin, a Portuguese-Belgian aid worker, was arrested in Central African Republic over spying allegations, he is still held in a military prison without charges and is on his second week of hunger strike, his family said on Tuesday. (Georges Martin via AP)

Family of aid worker detained in Central African Republic for alleged rebel contacts urge release

 

14-man Springboks overpower spirited Portugal 64-21 in historic first matchup

 

South Africa 64, Portugal 21

 
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