Two people have died in Portugal as a result of wildfires this year, according to the Lusa News Agency report. One, a former local official in the eastern city of Guarda, was killed on Aug. 15 while ...

LISBON, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Around 139,000 hectares of land have burned in Portugal so far this year, with almost half of the total destroyed in just the past two days. This is 17 times the area ...