Bit by bit, Portugal’s minimum salary is rising to a level that takes the country’s lowest paid workers a step further from grinding poverty. Prime minister António Costa guaranteed last night at the 45th anniversary dinner of the PS Socialist

A two-year-old female Iberian lynx was found dead, seemingly run over, on the A22 motorway near Olhão last Saturday morning (April 14). The announcement was made this morning by the Institute of Nature and Forest Conservation (ICNF).

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Two new tiny arachnids known as pseudoscorpions have been discovered in the Algarve by University of Aveiro researcher Ana Sofia Reboleiro. Three other species were also discovered by the researcher in the Alentejo, Penela and Leiria.

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A 19-year-old who admits to having been stealing from a van used by “foreign surfers” ended up needing plastic surgery last week after being set upon by his victims’ dogs and receiving bites all over his body, including his testicles.

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