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A23 closed once again due to Mação’s raging forest fires

Days into the titanic battle against Mação’s endless forest fires, authorities have once again had to close the A23 motorway.

Traffic has been cut in both directions, and Civil Protection spokesperson Patrícia Gaspar says there is no

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New horror in Madeira: one dead, two seriously injured

One person has died, and two others are reported to be seriously injured, as a result of inhaling a virulent mixture of cleaning products at a shopping centre in São Roque do Faial, in Madeira.

It is not immediately clear why the three

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Weekend weather: New heatwave brings all kind of warnings

With the government already declaring a state of public calamity due to continuing high temperatures and extreme drought in many areas, the forecast for the weekend is “keep your hat on” - the next few days are going to be ‘really hot’.

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Environmentalists alert to ‘money going down Portuguese drains’

Environmental association Zero claims €28 million is literally going down Portuguese drains every year - not in actual cash, but in reusable cooking oil.

Denouncing the “almost criminal” situation, Zero’s Rui Berkemeier blames it on a

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Heartbroken families challenge “deafening silence” over who is to blame for Madeira treefall tragedy

Three days after the terrible carnage at Madeira’s busiest religious summer festival (

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GALP’s executive president latest “official suspect” in Galpgate probe

GALP’s executive president Carlos Gomes da Silva has been officially cited as another of the suspects in the ongoing “football freebie probe” dubbed by the nation’s press as Galpgate.

Also joining the list of ‘arguidos’ is GALP director

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Portuguese grandmother dies in Las Ramblas terror attack

A 74-year-old Portuguese grandmother has been revealed to be among the dead in yesterday’s terror attack in Barcelona.

The news, coming just before midday today, followed concerns by the woman’s family that they had not heard from her

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Controversy over Algarve hotels’ use of birds of prey to control seagulls

A row has broken out over an Algarve hotel’s use of birds of prey to control seagulls.

PAN, the People-Animals-Nature party has filed a complaint with the authorities, denouncing the situation over social media and sending out press

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Portugal’s ‘threat level’ remains unaltered following Spain’s deadly terror attack

Prime minister António Costa has stressed that Portugal’s ‘threat level’ remains unaltered following yesterday’s deadly terror attack in Barcelona in which 13 people were killed and as many as 100 injured.

Telling journalists that Portugal

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Earthquake of 4.3 magnitude felt in Lisbon

People in Lisbon got a different kind of early morning wake-up call as a 4.3 magnitude tremor shook the ground this morning.

With its epicentre “around four kms east-northeast of Sobral de Monte Agraço”, the quake...

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The Dark Tower

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