Dancer with Royal Russian Ballet lost at sea off Vila Nova de Gaia
A 22-year-old Ukrainian dancer with the Royal Russian Ballet is missing presumed drowned after getting into difficulties on Tuesday while swimming with a fellow dancer off a beach in Vila
Drought threatens Alentejan wine
Wine producers in the Alentejo are looking at the weather in dread. It is much too warm for this time of year (and vines need the cold at this time
Almost 90% of ambulances without ‘EpiPens’
Medical emergency teams have drawn attention to a complete non-sequitur when it comes to saving the lives of people suffering from anaphylactic shock: teachers and non-teaching staff in schools are
President of Pediatric College under attack for position on child Covid vaccinations
A concerted attack has been launched on Jorge Amil Dias, president of the College of Pediatrics within the general medical council (Ordem dos Médicos) following his backing of calls for
Portugal’s 2021 deficit “will be close to 3%”, says governor of Bank of Portugal
From a predicted 4.3% to ‘close to 3%’ – this is the magical forecast today by Portugal’s central bank governor Mário Centeno, who in one fell swoop seems to have
Visão magazine and other titles targetted in yet another cyberattack
Wednesay morning has seen yet another cyberattack hit the headlines, this time on Visão magazine, and other titles in the “Trust in News” group. The good aspect of this latest
Public prosecutors call for 10 year jail term for former BES boss, who appears in court for first time
Former BES boss Ricardo Salgado has appeared today in court for the first time, to say what his defence team has been saying for weeks: he is in no condition
Closure of Portugal’s coal-fired power plants showed “complete lack of strategic perception”, says former director of energy
Further criticism of the government’s energetic transition ‘virtue signalling’ has come from former director general of energy Mário Guedes. He joins others in pointing to the closure of Portugal’s coal-fired
Cyberattackers target Vodafone’s Portugal network
Hack plunges country into chaos: emergency services compromised; 4.7 million without phones Monday night from around 9pm saw the beginning of what have become fairly devastating effects of the latest
Portugal’s pandemic experts hope for meeting with government to plot strategy to normality
Portugal’s panel of pandemic experts – the men and women whose research and know-how has been consulted throughout the Covid crisis – is hoping to meet with members of the