The Guardiana river, marking the lower border area between Portugal and Spain, is hosting a new visitor as a blue crab, found in the estuary in June, has been identified.
Researchers from the Centre for Marine Sciences confirmed the visitor was indeed a 'Chesapeake blue crab' from the US where it is valued as a food source.
Ryanair is to suspend the 'Geordie special' route between Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Faro from November this year until next Spring.
Not content with cancelling hundreds of flights, causing chaos for thousands of passengers, the Irish airline also is taking the knife, albeit temporarily, to 34 low-volume routes this winter.
Deco lawyer, Margarida Moura, considers that Portugal’s banks are acting illegally in charging customers monthly fees for operating their bank accounts.
Moura says there is a gap in the law covering these charges as there is no definition of exactly what a banking service should consist of.
The investigation into the March 2016 murder of Portimão schoolboy Rodrigo Lapa has led police to a favela in Brazil which the local police have been too frightened to enter.
This is the latest excuse for delays in the arrest and trial in Brazil of Joaquim Lara Pinto, Rodrigo’s stepfather who fled Portugal the day after Rodrigo’s body was found on scrubland near his home.
Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s Prime Minister, has taken another step in his mission to prevent Catalonia from holding a referendum on its independence.
The Guardia Civil has been instructed by the High Court of Justice of Catalonia to block websites supportive of the independence vote - a vote judged illegal under Spain’s constitution - including the official website of the Catalan National Assembly, a civil body whose aim is to achieve independence for Catalonia.
Health Minister, Adalberto Campos Fernandes, said today that the proposal from Portugal’s nurses for an across-the-board pay rise of €400 a month was totally out of the question.
A nurses' union threatens another strike, this one set for October 16th, if the government does not meet a set of demands handed to the ministry which include a minimum increase of €400 a month for all nursing professionals, according to a union source.
The new President of Angola, João Lourenço, did not mention Portugal in his inaugural speech in which he noted the country’s "principal partners" and welcomed others who "respected Angola’s national sovereignty."
The new head of state is well aware that Portugal is the main market for Angolan imports and has set out to increase the tension between the two governments by ignoring Portugal's commercial importance.
This summer’s tourist passenger figures have surpassed all previous records as between June and August 2017, 16 million people passed through Portugal’s ANA-managed airports, two million more than in the same period last year.
At the ten national airports managed by French-owned ANA, 16,312,927 passengers passed through in three months, compared to last year’s figure of 14,120,302.
