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Easter flight misery looks like hitting early this year with the statement by ANA airports authority this morning that its Lisbon and Faro complexes have run out of fuel. On just day two of the [...]

“Another electric tram accident” in Lisbon today has seen a number of light injuries to passengers involved. Some reports suggest six people were injured, others put the number at seven; one [...]

It’s an ambitious plan to do away with the frustrating reality of the Algarve’s ‘low season’ when hotels close, staff are laid off and parts of the region take on the appearance of a ghost town. [...]

Fourteen Syrian and Iraqi refugees, including six children, arrived in Lisbon this week after leaving Istanbul, Turkey, as part of a Portuguese refugee resettlement programme for 2018-2019 [...]

IMF director Christine Lagarde has given her own twist on what Brexit could mean for Portugal. It’s a far cry from the mutual agreements forged to maintain the status quo (click here). Talking to [...]

“The health ministry seems to be pushing doctors into a strike they don’t want”. This was the view of syndicates following a meeting yesterday (Wednesday) with health minister Marta Temido in [...]

Anyone heading for the beach as schools break up had better have warm clothes to the ready – the forecast for the next 10 days is dire: lots of ‘instability’ with the possibility of hail, [...]

There are now so many family ties in the PS Socialist government that ministers themselves are being taken by surprise. At least this is the story coming out today as the cousin of the secretary [...]

With Portuguese troops and humanitarian workers now returned from the cyclone-relief effort mounted in Mozambique, the tables have turned on a mystery that simply won’t go away. Almost three [...]

“Great secrecy” surrounds plans underway to bring ISIS brides, a grandmother and 20 children to Portugal. The women and the children are currently in three detention camps in Syria, reports [...]