Mayor alarmed by level of fire destruction in Sernancelhe
The mayor of Sernancelhe – just one of multiple municipalities scarred by summer wildfires – has told Lusa today that the damage amounts to “many millions” of euros, and that
“Trump is a Russian asset – and my presidency hasn’t gone the way I’d hoped”
While the nation’s television stations were focused on what was ultimately a disappointing parliamentary debate yesterday, President Marcelo spiced the afternoon up considerably at the PSD Summer University being held
‘Urgent debate’ on government’s management of fires deteriorates into habitual shouting match
Anyone anticipating yesterday’s ‘urgent debate’ in parliament on the government’s management of Portugal’s summer wildfires will have soon wondered why. The event turned into the habitual shouting match, ‘resolving nothing’.
Land expropriations for Albufeira desalination plant move forwards as United Arab Emirates enters picture
With a number of legal challenges still cluttering the path towards construction of a desalination plant set back from Praia da Falésia, in Albufeira, promoters Águas do Algarve are moving
New twist in tortuous ‘favoritism scandal’ affecting Marcelo
At a point where the agonising ‘favoritism scandal’ affecting president Marcelo would appear to have ‘died down’ enough for him to complete his final mandate and retire from public life,
Firefighters react in outrage to government social media post
A poorly-conceived government announcement over social media has left firefighters seeing red. It hasn’t helped that the Ministry of Interior Administration sought to repair the damage hours later. The rallying
PM faces parliamentary grilling over fires
Prime Minister Luís Montenegro will appear before the Standing Committee of the Assembly of the Republic today to debate the coordination of firefighting in Portugal, after opposition parties have unanimously
Discovery of fissure in tectonic plate “could explain major earthquakes in Lisbon”
A study by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, published today in the journal ‘Nature Geosciences’, sheds new light on longstanding questions over why ‘very large earthquakes’
Foreigner suspected of ‘sextortion’ arrested after flying into Lisbon airport
With the relatively modern crime of sextortion casting a cautionary chill through social media, PJ police arrested a woman yesterday after she flew into Lisbon airport “from outside the Schengen
Special GNR ops combating Pedrógão fire discover cannabis plantation
One of those uncanny ‘twists of fate’ has exposed a man cultivating cannabis in the middle of the forest near Pedrógão Grande: the fire that began on Saturday involved special