The Judiciary Police (PJ) has arrested a 30-year-old man in Portimão on suspicion of attempted homicide, following a stabbing that left the victim in a life-threatening condition last month.
The Hospital Particular do Algarve, in Faro, has carried out Portugal’s first robotic-assisted revision knee replacement surgery, marking a significant milestone in the nation’s orthopaedic innovation, in what is being described as a pioneering procedure in the field of orthopaedics.
Prime Minister Luís Montenegro is set to file a formal complaint against a Portuguese account over the dissemination of false content on the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, after the user published a fake photo depicting messages in which the PM appeared to offer up the Azores islands to the US President.
One in three foreign students say they feel discriminated against by teachers in their school environment, according to a new study by NOVA University of Lisbon which surveyed more than 1,400 participants across nine schools in the municipalities of Lisbon, Amadora, and Sintra.
The passage of Storm Ingrid across mainland Portugal, beginning tonight, 21st January, is set to bring rain, strong winds, rough seas, and snow in some parts of Portugal, possibly even the Algarve, according to the Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA).
The lawyer representing several of the 37 suspected badgeholders of a neo-Nazi organisation known as ‘1143 Group’, who were detained on Tuesday by Portugal’s Judicial Police (PJ), has today, Wednesday, 21st January, claimed that the case concerns nothing more than “a social group”, insisting it has no violent character.
The Judiciary Police (PJ) has carried out an operation today, Tuesday, 20th January, serving more than fifty arrest warrants against alleged members of a Portuguese ultranationalist group by the name of ‘1143’, led by repeat criminal and neonazi Mário Machado.
New auroras borealis have been observed in the skies over Portugal since Monday the 19th, particularly in the northern regions of the country, including Vila Pouca de Aguiar, Bragança, Macedo de Cavaleiros, São Pedro do Sul, but also as far south as Grândola, Alentejo, according to reports on social media.
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