Portugal’s filling stations again may be starved of fuels as the lorry drivers’ union remains at loggerheads with the national merchandise transport association over demands made for the drivers of dangerous materials – diesel and petrol being the most important.

Union leader say that a strike could start as soon as next week unless two key demands are met - the recognition of a specific professional class for the drivers of dangerous materials and that drivers’ pay is double the national minimum wage.

A suspected murderer was arrested a few hours after the fatal shooting of a bar owner at Amado beach, Aljezur.

A team of investigators from the Criminal Investigation Department of the PJ, with the support of the Aljezur and Portimão GNR tracked down and arrested the man.

A man was killed by a shotgun shot on Sunday morning just after 11:00 am in a bar at Amado Beach in Aljezur.

Correio da Manhã reported that the assailant is on the run.

As Canadian cannabis companies increasingly look to expand in European markets, the Canadian company, Tilray, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the launch of a campus in Portugal.

Located in Cantanhede, Coimbra, the facility just completed a successful indoor harvest that was celebrated with a tour featuring local government officials and Canadian healthcare professionals.

Portugal’s President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has called for "strong leadership and political ambition" at a global level to implement the Paris Agreement, speaking at a climate change conference in Beijing.

The head of state attended the second meeting of China’s ‘One Belt One Road’ (New Silk Road) project and was on the environment and sustainable development panel.

China will launch the Portuguese satellite ‘Infante’ some time in 2021 as part of its participation in the STARlab technology lab – the Portuguese-Chinese space and technology partnership.

The president of Tekever, a Portuguese aerospace company, Ricardo Mendes, said that China's involvement in the Infante satellite is in the actual launch and in the development of certain sensors.

Portugal’s Ministry of Internal Affairs justifies the detention in SEF centres of foreign children arriving in the country as 'necessary to prevent trafficking in human beings.'

The 74 children detained last year arrived in Portugal the company of their parents or alone and were detained due to the ‘irregular situation’ of the family.

Portugal's parliament voted in April this year for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide in 1915, perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire.

April 24th is the anniversary of the day that, "the international outbreak of massacres against the Armenian population is marked, since it was at that time in 1915 that the Ottoman authorities arrested and executed 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople under orders of the government of the 'Young Turks'," according to the text of the resolution.