Portugal

By: DAISY SAMPSON daisy.sampson@the-resident.com AN EIGHT-year-old British girl on holiday in the Algarve has been placed in protective care at a children’s home in Loulé. Social services were alerted to

LIFEGUARDS AT several beaches near Torres Vedras on the west coast of Portugal, have reported an unusually high number of sightings of Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish. The species is common in

WEEKLY FLIGHTS have resumed to São Tomé e Príncipe, in the Gulf of Guinea, from Lisbon Airport every Monday. The service was stopped several months ago after TAAG, the Angola

A GOLDSMITH from Setúbal was shot and killed by armed robbers on August 20.  José Correira, 58, was shot twice in the head and died in hospital due to his

PORTUGAL’S NURSES union has announced that it may organise a national strike at the beginning of September. The union wants a new career regulation and the recruitment of more nurses

THREE BANKS, two petrol stations and a post office branch were robbed in the Lisbon area on Tuesday. The robberies were all carried out by armed men and police suspect

A UNION for criminal investigation professionals and police has called for sweeping new powers in the wake of a spate of violent and armed bank and security car hold-ups in

THREE PORTUGUESE business associations have shown themselves open to the idea of nuclear energy in Portugal. The world energy crisis, which has particularly made Portugal vulnerable, has led the presidents

DEATHS ARE predicted to outnumber births in the EU from 2015, states a new report by the EU’s statistical office, Eurostat. The survey into population patterns has predicted that the

FOLLOWING THE break away of Georgia’s two regions, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, whose independence has been recognised by Russia, the UK has sent its foreign secretary to the Ukraine for