A kidnapped French national has been rescued from a yacht as it was being sailed into the blue beyond.
The National Counterterrorism Unit of the Judicial Police with the help of Navy, Maritime Police and Portuguese Air Force personnel swung into action after the 28-year-old kidnap victim managed to send a SMS message last Thursday to a friend in France who alerted the Portuguese authorities.
Portugal’s weather service has issued a ‘Red Alert’ to warn the population of the scorching temperatures over the next week, caused by a mass of warm, dry air from North Africa which also may carry red dust from the Sahara.
Several districts will be on Red Alert from Thursday due to the high temperatures, with some Alentejo locations hitting 45°C degrees on Saturday.
The head of the Portuguese Army, General Rovisco Duarte, has informed MPs that he can not reveal the list of recovered equipment and armaments stolen from the Tancos base last year, because it’s a secret.
The news of the Army’s refusal to inform parliament was sent just hours before the General was due to be interviewed by the Parliamentary Committee for National Defence which was keen to know what had been recovered after the June 2017 robbery.
The Medieval cemetery and Almohad quarters being excavates at Cacela Velha have revealed human skeletons and that of a cat.
The Poço Antigo sita at Cacela Velha, Vila Real de Santo António, has yielded, "the extraordinary heritage and historical wealth of this village," the Council commented.
João Fernandes, the new president of the Algarve Tourism Region (RTA), wants "to reinforce the region's diversification and rejuvenation strategy, focusing on sustainable development, capturing talent and investment, and technological modernisation."
He continues, "The region has to develop new ways of attracting visitors, namely through Business Tourism, Nautical Tourism, Accessible Tourism and Sports. We want to be active agents of investment capture, which helps to requalify the offer and bring innovation in products and services," says João Fernandes in a statement that managed to cloak his mission in almost impenetrable marketing jargon.
Portugal’s weather service, the IPMA, has revised its already blistering forecasts and now predicts the scorching weather from Spain indeed will hit the country, with some areas of the Alentejo heading for 45°C – that’s 113°F in old money.
Between Thursday and Sunday this week, countryside towns such as Reguengos de Monsaraz, Moura and Serpa, along the Spanish border, will have temperatures of 44 to 45°C.
Lisbon’s Left Bloc council leader resigned on Sunday after revelations broke that he was involved in property speculation in the Alfama area of city while politically supporting an expansion of affordable housing.
Ricardo Robles tried to weather the storm that he whipped up by his buying a prime, city centre property for nearly €350,000, spending an estimated million euros on refurbishing it and putting it on the market for a cool €5 million.
Olhão Maritime Police officers swooped on wild campers who has pitched their tents on the Ria Formosa island of Culatra.
Officers questioned 38 people, divided into four groups, after news reports had been circulated indicating tents had been erected in the sand dunes and bonfires had been lit.
