Production at Portugal’s Autoeuropa car plant halted for second time due to worldwide shortage of ‘chips’
Production in Portugal’s Autoeuropa car assembly plant has been halted for a second time since March due to the worldwide shortage of semiconductor chips. The ‘crisis’ which has been estimated
António Guterres re-elected for second term as secretary general of United Nations
Former Portuguese prime minister António Guterres has been unanimously re-elected for a second five-year term as secretary general of the United Nations. In a ceremony that took place in New
Portuguese Navy sends two-year-old ‘survivor’ Noah registration sheet for Marines
The Portuguese Navy has been quick to appreciatie the extraordinary resilience of little Noah, the child who gripped the nation’s hearts this week after he went missing in dense woodland
Concern as dozens of babies in Portugal ‘haven’t been registered during pandemic’
Dozens of babies appear to have been born during the pandemic but not ‘registered’ in the usual way. The problem has been exacerbated by the closing of ‘Nascer Cidadão’ outlets
Disaster-prone minister involved in fatal accident on Portugal’s A6 motorway
Eduardo Cabrita, Portugal’s minister for Interior Administration has been described as a man who is dogged by misfortune. Today that observation could not have been more tragically prophetic: the BMW
Head to roll in Lisbon ‘Russian activists’ data-protection scandal
Someone is about to lose their job in the ‘scandal’ that saw Lisbon city council send the Russian embassy personal details (names, addresses and telephone numbers) of activists leading a
Aljezur ‘migrants’: police now have 10 in custody
With very little clear over what a powerful motorlaunch was doing off the coast of Arrifana beach yesterday – or what the large group of men on shore were doing
Ambassador reported ‘missing’ from Lisbon embassy
Mulamba Watema Shabendelo, the ambassador in Lisbon for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is reportedly missing from his country’s embassy in Lisbon. He hasn’t been seen since yesterday, explain
Weekend lockdowns: experts ‘doubt they will change anything’
As Lisbon prepares for its first weekend ‘lockdown’ in the latest strategy to halt the spread of the Delta (Indian) variant, experts and epidemiologists have warned the plan is unlikely
Another ‘faux-pas’: now Portugal’s least popular minister in doghouse for putting migrants in jail
In what is being seen as yet another appalling faux-pas, Portugal’s least popular minister Eduardo Cabrita is in the doghouse again: this time for arranging migrants and asylum seekers to