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Low river levels in Castelo Branco have delivered up a much-loved shrine, stolen over 20 years ago. Before the heavens opened up and down the country this weekend – causing all kinds of [...]

Former Lisbon mayor Carmona Rodrigues is ready to present a new solution to the never-ending problem of where to site Lisbon’s second airport. According to reports, the civil engineer with a [...]

Asbestos angst continues up and down the country, despite a government pledge to remove the potentially harmful building component from schools and public buildings. Say reports, asbestos is [...]

A second BA plane in a matter of days has been forced to make an emergency landing, this time in Porto. The official line is that the incident was a due to a technical issue. Say UK tabloids, the [...]

“Magnificent news”. This is the way President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has welcomed the fact that leaders of Europe’s 27 Member States have all given their backing to the revised Withdrawal [...]

Plans to lure 1500 emigrés back to Portugal – by offering them cash incentives – have hit the brick wall that critics always anticipated. The government decided earlier this week that [...]

Rich Brazilians described as flocking to Portugal are bringing their banks with them. Itau Unibanco Holding SA and Banco Bradesco SA are “considering opening wealth-management offices in Portugal [...]

The risk of poverty in Portugal hasn’t been so low for 16 years. This is the best interpretation of data collected by the Pordata platform, run by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, and [...]

Despite the brief bout of rain in the Algarve last weekend, the region is facing one of its worst droughts in living memory. Dam levels have reached “historic lows”, farmers are desperate for [...]

A cruise ship passenger, aged 75, sailing from Madeira to Spain was seen “voluntarily” jumping from a balcony on the 8th deck into the sea below. NATO Allied Maritime Command confirmed that the [...]