A British grandfather spent nine months in a Portuguese jail after Mozambique drug mules planted three kilos of heroin in his luggage. Peter Hambrook, 68, was arrested after the class A drug was found in the lining of a borrowed case he had used to bring back gifts from Mozambique.
The Portuguese commander of the ISIL terrorist group's Foreign Militants Battalion was captured in Northeastern Syria, media reports have revealed.
Ryanair has sent a blame note to 12 cabin crew members stating their intent to fire them, alleging non-compliance with the minimum services in the strike from the 21st to the 25th of August, a union source said on Monday.
A GNR officer was hit by a vehicle today when the driver disobeyed orders that prevented him from accessing an area of Albergaria-a-Velha where a fire was spreading, a source said.
The proposed project is called “Lacustre City”, and is a mega venture of over 57 hectares, with residences, tourist accommodation, restaurants, and lakeside zones. All of this is planned to take place in Vilamoura, an environmentally sensitive area.
Two of the 18 new doctors coming to Algarve hospitals could help to solve the recent difficulties experienced in filling in the quotas at the Intensive Care and Neonatal Service of the Algarve University Hospital Center (CHUA), as one of those placed is a specialist paediatrician, and another is a paediatric surgeon.
A firefighting helicopter crashed Thursday afternoon in Sobrado, Valongo, causing the pilot, the sole occupant of the aircraft, to be killed.
The Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) is polling at 44% after it eschewed austerity policies to turn the country’s economy around following the financial crash. With the centre-right Portuguese Social Democratic party (PSD) trailing a long way back on 20%, it now has nearly enough votes to form an outright majority, a rare occurrence under proportional representation.
