A 23-year-old Portuguese man has been charged with attempted espionage after allegedly stealing a laptop and tablet from a Swedish NATO serviceman in Lisbon with the intention of selling potentially classified information to the Russian Federation.
More than 400 Atlantic puffins (Fratercula arctica) have been found dead along Portugal’s coastline in recent days, according to the Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA BirdLife).
More than 4,000 companies have applied for financial support following the storms that battered Portugal in recent weeks, requesting almost €1 billion in aid, the Minister for Economy and Social Cohesion revealed at the weekend in Sobral de Monte Agraço.
Lagoa Municipal Council has begun a major refurbishment of the town’s Health Centre, in a project worth over €732,000, aimed at “improving the facility’s operating conditions and the quality of healthcare provided to residents”.
Portugal’s National Maritime Authority is assisting Spanish rescue teams in the search for a 58-year-old French national who went missing this weekend in the Guadiana River, which separates the Algarve from southern Spain.
A loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) rescued after being found stranded among rocks by a group of surfers on Mareta Beach, in Sagres, is recovering at Zoomarine’s rehabilitation centre.
The municipality of Monchique has recorded around 150 incidents in the past week, as torrential rainfall triggered landslides, mudslides and fallen trees. These weather-related events triggered the closure or restriction of several roads in the mountainous Algarvian municipality, including the EN266, the main route linking the town to Portimão.
A Portuguese national from Madeira has been formally charged by the Public Prosecutor’s Office with four terrorism-related offences: two counts of incitement to terrorism, and two counts of glorifying terrorism.
