Almost 65% of births in private hospitals are by cesarean section
Percentage is 50% higher than WHO ‘ideal’ Almost 65% of births carried out in private and social sector units in Portugal are by cesarean section, writes Lusa today – a
Algarve caves to be classified as places of “relevant natural and cultural interest”
The classification procedures for the Ibn Ammar and Algarão do Remexido Caves, located in the municipalities of Lagoa and Silves, are currently under public consultation. The Regional Coordination and Development
15 immigrant service centres to open in next few weeks
AIMA to be ‘strengthened’ with extra staff and funding Over the next few weeks 15 service centres run by the Task Force of the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum
Lisbon carries out blood donation drive for research into metastatic breast cancer
Metastatic breast cancer causes more than half breast cancer deaths Two tents in the shape of breasts give ‘body’ to an initiative in Lisbon that from today until Saturday is
Government raises proposed 2025 base salary for public sector workers to €875
Secretary of State for public administration meets with syndicates Portugal’s government has upgraded its proposal for the monthly base salary of public sector workers to €875 in 2025, in order
BES judges listen to recording of Salgado’s ‘parliamentary grilling’
MPs questioned BES boss Ricardo Salgado for 10 hours in 2014 With Ricardo Salgado – the main defendant in the open-ended trial that has begun into the collapse of Portugal’s
PAN declares it too will be vetoing 2025 State Budget proposal
PAN position follows “irrevocable decision” to veto announced by CHEGA PAN – one of Portugal’s ‘smallest parties’ – has declared that it will vote against the State Budget for 2025
Young man ‘executed with three gunshots’ in late night café in Cacém
Armed man dressed in black “walks in, shoots repeatedly, then leaves” Police today are trying to find the motive for the point blank execution of a 28-year-old man in a
Suspected crypto fraudster wanted by FBI arrested in Cascais
Arrest made by Portugal’s PJ police as part of major operation led by the FBI in the US Portugal’s PJ criminal police have arrested a foreigner suspected of running a
Defence minister wants Air Force C-130s fitted out for firefighting
Aircraft should be put to firefighting use when necessary, minister believes Portugal’s defence minister, Nuno Melo, announced today in Aveiro that he will propose to the government the acquisition of