PJ “don’t know who skull belongs to found close to river”
Skull, a(nother) human bone plus clothing discovered close to EN109 in Aveiro In yet another story about random body parts discovered in unusual places, Correio da Manhã today has run
Government faces new motion of censure
The PSD/CDS minority executive has survived one motion of censure and faces another today (presented by PCP communists) With the wider world on tenterhooks – as the United States under
Portugal’s battered government faces second “motion of censure” in less than two weeks
Today’s motion has been tabled by PCP communists In what to outsiders may look like a kind of groundhog day within a turgid soap opera, parliament will be debating and
PS call for parliamentary inquiry into PM’s family business
Socialists accuse PM of “actively contributing to degradation of institutions” The government’s attempts to wriggle out of political crisis are being thwarted at every turn today: PS Socialists are calling
Portugal’s road deaths ‘sixth worst in EU’
In 2023, Portugal was the sixth worst country among the EU’s 27 member states in the number of road deaths per million inhabitants, surpassed only by Greece, Croatia, Latvia, Romania
Marcelo ‘did not answer PM’s phone call’
Portugal’s head of state stresses “there is no reason for the (political) crisis” As the reverberations of Saturday night’s ‘address to the nation’ by the prime minister continue, another unfortunate
Public debt rises in January
4th year-on-year rise According to data from the Bank of Portugal (BdP), public debt from the Maastricht perspective – which counts for Brussels – increased by around €3.6 billion to
Olhão café shooting: man treated in hospital, suspect identified but not detained
Shooting followed “disagreement among clients” Saturday night in Olhão ended with the owner of one of the town’s cafés being shot in the legs following a “disagreement among clients”. Reports
Algarve railway tragedy: man killed at Areal Gordo/ Salgados crossing
Accident happened at 9.13am A man was killed this morning in the Algarve, following a collision with the regional train at the Areal Gordo/ Salgados railway crossing. It is not
Sevenair accuses Cascais mayor of ‘paralysing’ Trás-os-Montes/ Algarve airline
Even before resuming in Algarve, Sevenair hits new obstacle Sevenair – the internal airline struggling to operate the Trás-os-Montes/ Algarve route – has accused the mayor of Cascais, Carlos Carreiras,