In a statement, the GNR highlighted international cooperation thanks to the permanent presence of police personnel from the Spanish Guardia Civil, the French Gendamarie Nationale and the Carabinieri of Italy to conduct mixed patrols in the most popular tourist areas of the Algarve.

A report carried out by independent scientists for the United Nations (UN) on sustainable development during 2019, presented in New York, places Portugal 26th out of 162 countries evaluated.

London police have issued a new public appeal for information on regarding the murder of a 24-year-old Portuguese man last weekend. The young man was killed by gunshots shot from a motorcycle.

With economic predictions worsening, ECB President Mario Draghi has called for prudent policies for countries with high public debt, such as Portugal. Draghi also recommended the opposite to countries at the higher end of the European economic spectrum.

The Algarve PSD party has accused the Socialist Party of "treating the state as its own", claiming that it is being "transformed into a perverse socialist propaganda machine".

One in six Portuguese adults over the age of 50 live in a household with “food uncertainty”, according to a study by researchers from the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto.

Lagos City Council is promoting a new campaign to promote the sterilization of domestic dogs and cats. “It is a program for dogs and cats whose owners are residents in the municipality of Lagos and who are unable to afford the surgical sterilization procedures, namely beneficiaries of the Social Insertion Income (RSI), Solidarity Supplement for the Elderly ( CSI) and other economic support structures that are duly substantiated”, explains the council.

A person posing as a member of ARS Algarve's breast cancer screening program is contacting women in the region via phone calls, asking them for breast photographs as a means of “diagnosing cancer.”