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Terrorism: Brussels tells Portugal to “improve its exchange of information”

On a day that brought news that another Algerian has breached Lisbon’s airport security and entered the country illegally, the European Commission has given Portugal two months to clean up its act over the exchange of information in the combat of

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Young woman’s body discovered in Faro as man threatens suicide

Police have arrested a 37-year-old man suspected of strangling his girlfriend in their Faro home and keeping her body hidden for almost 24 hours before threatening to kill himself by jumping from the apartment’s balcony.

This latest horror

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Ryanair in Portugal to hire “hundreds of flight attendants”

Irish low-cost airline Ryanair is returning to Portugal on Monday (October 3) to hire “hundreds” of new flight attendants.

Five recruitment days have been announced: two in Lisbon (October 3 and October 14), and one in Porto (October 21),

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Cursed commando course sees nine more soldiers leave as lawyers step-in to help grieving families

The cursed Commando training course that saw two recruits die last month, and at least nine others taken seriously ill, is back in the news today, following damning television evidence that the army may be embarking on an insidious cover-up.

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Courts demand €1428 from seven-year-old whose firefighter mother was killed in action

The iniquities of Portuguese justice came into sharp focus this week when Viseu court sent the child of a dead firefighter a demand for €1428.

The sum covers the claim for damages lodged in the seven-year-old’s name after her 24-year-old

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Urgent meeting demanded with Spain over obsolete Almaraz nuclear plant

Portugal is demanding an urgent meeting with Spain over plans to continue the life of an obsolete and allegedly unsafe nuclear power plant 100 kms from the Portuguese border.

Environment minister João Pedro Matos Fernandes said the action

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Minister unveils plans for new “fishing community” as Ria Formosa girds for revolt

Environment minister João Pedro Matos Fernandes has ridden into direct conflict with Ria Formosa islanders, days after he assured parliament that decisions over the future of the fishing community’s homes were being considered “one by one”.

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Prime minister dodges Algarve’s burning issues

It was a whirlwind visit set up to commemorate World Tourism Day, but even so prime minister António Costa came up against the burning issues of the Algarve. Ria Formosa islanders who only got 24-hours notice of the PM’s arrival at Pestana

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Manhunt in Lisbon as another Algerian arrives by plane and breaches security

Weeks after the terrorist alert at Lisbon airport after a group of Algerian men made a run for freedom across the runway, another Algerian national has breached airport security and remains, for the time being, in “parts unknown”.

The

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Portuguese man faces jail for drowning pet dogs

A Portuguese man has been arrested in Switzerland after his two dogs were thrown to their deaths into a local river.

The 36-year-old is accused of having tied the dogs to an iron bar and left them to drown in the...

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A life-size model of the Fairey IIID plane used by Portuguese aviation pioneers Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral in...
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Director: Peter Berg; Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Douglas M. Griffin; Genre:...
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