Portugal

Police are reported to be watching over the butchers’ shops of beleaguered football ref Manuel Mota following the latest death threats that preceded Monday’s ‘big’ game between Nacional de Madeira

A group of gambling addicts arrived in Portugal last week in a desperate bid to escape temptation back home. For race fans, the five-day meeting at Cheltenham is always a

GNR police caught a woman red-handed as she tried to pass drugs to her convict husband during visiting time in a Sintra jail. The woman, who arrived at the jail

A 60-year-old woman is in a critical condition after having fallen five storeys after slipping while cleaning the windows of an apartment in Póvoa de Varzim. According to the authorities,

A plan to smuggle €30,000 worth of cheap Spanish tobacco into Portugal was foiled at the weekend when GNR officers from Guarda, operating in collaboration with counterparts from Salamanca (Spain),

Political commentator and wit Marcelo Rebelo Sousa said this week on TVi that the GNR policeman who hit the headlines recently for his raunchy striptease while in uniform in a

courthouse descended into bizarre scenes of anarchy last week when 19 defendants reacted against stiff sentences. Reporting on the ‘shouts and kicks’ that ensued, Correio da Manhã newspaper described how

In an extraordinary court case, two agents attached to the PSP police have been charged with involvement in a crime ring that looted almost 20 homes in the Lousã area

Following another weekend that saw thousands protesting against austerity in the nation’s capital, police have now revealed they may be joining forces with the military to express growing discontent against