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Hundreds of small birds are being slaughtered by mechanical ‘olive harvesting’ that takes place at night in the Alentejo. Conservationists at Quercus, the country’s oldest environmental NGO, are [...]

It has taken almost five years to get to a courtroom, but the death of a student told to go home and “sleep off a hangover” that was, in fact, a gastric perforation is at last approaching its [...]

News over last weekend that UK regional airline Flybmi had cancelled all flights and filed for administration did not take anyone close to the industry by surprise. Hot-on-the-heels of the demise [...]

As the world digests the seemingly unrepentant declarations of an IS bride in a Syrian refugee camp hoping the UK repatriates her and gives her the chance of a normal life, Portugal’s minister [...]

Ricardo Salgado, the former president of Banco Espírito Santo vilified in the press for the collapse of his family business in 2014 is fighting back. Say reports today, he is threatening to block [...]

So far this year 10 women and one two-year-old child (a girl) have been killed in explosions of domestic violence. It’s not the worst tally for a little over six weeks, say reports, but it is “as [...]

Varying reports claim the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) believes Portugal “could do better”, and should start by increasing taxes on fuel, the restaurant sector and [...]

Reuters international news agency has used the example of a 40-year-old train that lost its engine on a trip between Porto and Valença earlier this month as a metaphor for the state of the [...]

A so-called Portuguese (actually, a dual Portuguese-Venezuelan national) has been used in a video in the United States to stress the need for Trump’s controversial border wall with Mexico. The [...]