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UN chief Guterres gives grim state-of-the-world report

Portugal’s home-grown leader of the United Nations has warned world leaders and monarchs today not to “sleepwalk” into a nuclear war with North Korea.

Former PS prime minister António Guterres was making his first ‘state-of-the-world

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Security forces to be trained to spot ‘signs of radicalisation’ in Portugal

Minister for Internal Administration Constança Urbano de Sousa has opened a groundbreaking new course designed to train security forces “to detect signs of radicalisation” - particularly in prisons.

The course is innovating, she explained

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More than 25% of Portuguese children are overweight

More than a quarter of school-age Portuguese children are overweight, 12.6% of this number being classified as ‘obese’.

These are what Público terms “some of the conclusions” of a study led by APCOI (the Portuguese association against

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Requests for Portuguese residency increase by 1300%

It is exactly as SEF (the foreigners and frontiers agency) predicted. New legislation stipulating what is required for people to seek Portuguese residency has opened the floodgates.

In just one week, SEF received no less than 4,073

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Death of Portuguese bullfighter gets mention in international press

The death of a second Portuguese bullfighter in the space of just two weeks even made mentions in international press this week, as the association of ‘forcados’ (fighters who taunt the bull with their bare hands) called for “more respect” for

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Chaotic scenes as “legless passenger” forces Easyjet flight to divert to Lisbon

An easyJet flight from Manchester to Marrakech was diverted to Lisbon because a 'legless' passenger allegedly grabbed one of the cabin crew by the neck, and racially abused others.

The flight, carrying 200 passengers, was met by emergency

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Corrupt Brazilians and allegedly corrupt Angolans on Golden Visa ‘list of shame’

The UK Guardian has highlighted the inconvenient truth lurking within Portugal’s Golden Visa regime.

While it has worked miracles for the economy - not to mention key areas of the property sector - it has also seen a rush of dodgy

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Costa Vicentina fishermen threaten new ‘sargo protests’

“Clear discrimination” is how the commission for coastal fishing views the continued government ban on sargo (seabream) capture which excludes boat and submarine fishermen. In other words, only rod fishermen are bound by the ban which extends

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SOS Ria Formosa challenges local politicians over plans for battered barrier islands

Campaign group SOS Ria Formosa has succeeded in making local politicians show their true colours.

Two weeks before the region casts its votes for new municipal leaders, the group has held candidates to a challenge, laid down at the

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Strategy to transform Portugal into elderly haven presented to government

It has taken over a year to prepare and was presented to the government on Monday.

The national strategy for healthy and active old age, 2017-2025, has been created in the context that it is “urgent to adapt to an...

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Just two weeks away and Sagres’ popular bird festival has already attracted hundreds of pre-bookings to the point...
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New era dawns for the Portugal Masters

Since last year’s 10th anniversary edition of the Portugal Masters, the Dom Pedro Golf Group has acquired the...
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Thai hotel group Six Senses looks to Algarve

Thai hotel group Six Senses is in “negotiations” to open a new hotel in the Algarve.

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