Two Dead, Two Missing After Pleasure Boat Sinks Off Tróia
A man and a boy died, and two other men are missing, after their pleasure boat sank on Sunday off the coast of Portugal, the coastguard...
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Anti-immigration, anti-fascist demos to be held in Porto on Saturday
An anti-immigration demonstration and an anti-fascist demonstration authorised by the Public Security Police will take place 350 metres...
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Army and Navy admit return of mandatory military service
The war in Ukraine and NATO's excessive dependence on the United States has reignited the debate on the reintroduction of compulsory...
28 de mar.2 min de leitura
Public Prosecutor's Office blocks major solar park in Alentejo
The Public Prosecutor's Office has challenged Spanish multinational Iberdrola's licence for the construction of Europe's largest solar...
28 de mar.2 min de leitura
Dementia in Portugal set to double in next 50 years
Researchers from the Dementia Research, Diagnosis, Training and Monitoring Centre (CIDIFAD) of the Misericórdia de Riba D'Ave, a...
21 de mar.2 min de leitura
Roma people 43 times more likely to be killed by police
A person of Roma ethnicity is 43 times more likely to be killed by the police than a non-Roma person, while a black person is 21 times...
21 de mar.2 min de leitura
Cocaine consumption booms in Porto
Porto is among the 49 cities where cocaine consumption has grown the most, according to the European Drug Report 2023. Analyses of...
13 de mar.2 min de leitura
Climate activists strike again
Climate activists from the colective Greve Climática Estudantil ("Students' Climate Strike") climbed the Bank of Portugal building this...
12 de mar.1 min de leitura
Global Media Group goes ahead with mass redundancy
The board of daily newspaper Diário de Notícias has also been sacked. This Tuesday, the Global Media Group (GMG), whose titles include...
7 de mar.1 min de leitura
Portuguese women's working conditions rank 6th on The Economist’s glass-ceiling index
Portugal ranks among the best countries in the world in terms of the working environment for women. According to The Economist, Portugal...
6 de mar.2 min de leitura
Online gambling boom fuels addiction in Portugal
Roughly 215,000 Portuguese have requested self-exclusion from online gambling platforms. By the end of 2023, this practice - which...
4 de mar.2 min de leitura
Over 2400 NHS doctors and nurses are foreigners
Main countries of origin of foreign doctors, nurses and operational assistants are Spain, Brazil and Angola. Over 2,400 doctors and...
4 de mar.1 min de leitura
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators interrupt concert by Russian-Israeli quartet in Lisbon
The incident happened during a performance by the Jerusalem Quartet at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. The Jerusalem...
4 de mar.2 min de leitura
Doctors say it's not too late to get the flu shot
While the vaccination rate is lower than in previous years, experts believe that there are other factors behind the recent spike in flu...
3 de mar.2 min de leitura
Hospital emergency rooms under pressure
The Minister of Health has called on citizens to first call INEM (in urgent cases) or SNS24 (in less serious cases) before going to...
3 de mar.2 min de leitura
Foreigners in Portugal double in a decade
On International Migrants Day, the Observatório das Migrações and Pordata, the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos’ statistical...
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Portugal's teacher workforce ageing and shrinking
Photo by Redd F on Unsplash The National Education Council's (CNE) annual State of Education report, concerning the year of 2022, brought...
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