Police in the Algarve had a busy weekend as they detained nine individuals in Portimão, Lagos and Olhão for a variety of offences.
On Sunday afternoon, the Olhão police stopped a Portuguese citizen, 39, at one of the entrances to the football stadium for having pockets full of hashish.
The Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho today assured ripped-off BES depositors that he has been "putting pressure" on the stock market regulator and the Bank of Portugal to resolve the issue.
Passos Coelho today received a small delegation of BES depositors who has lost their savings in the bank’s ‘rescue.’
Socialsist leader António Costa has come the closest yet to stating that the toll systems on former free SCUT roads in the Alentejo and Algarve will end.
Speaking to reporters on his election roadshow today, the socialist leader referred to the need to "make a reassessment of the financial obligations that the state took on" and that "in order to allow either in the interior regions or in all border regions and even in particular areas where tourists come in, such as the Algarve’s Via do Infante, to delete and create conditions to create better accessibility conditions."
The police investigation into allegations of historic sex abuse involving Sir Cliff Richard has not shown much progress.
Sir Cliff, who denies the allegations, has neither been arrested nor charged even though the investigation began in August 2014.
The ride-sharing app, called BlaBlaCar, has swept into the record books for a start-up company in France.
It is now valued at €1.4 billion, making it Europe’s latest billion-euro company, called “unicorn”.
Luxembourg is a very small country and Jean-Claude Juncker served it as prime minister for 19 years. During his tenure he also held the post of minister for the treasury for the last 4.5 years.
Despite his most prominent role, he has told investigating MEPS that he had no role in creating Luxembourg’s controversial tax regime.
The decision deadline is at midnight tonight for those non-resident BES customers who were sold commercial paper on the advice of BES managers and staff, as instructed by management.
Should those who subsequently lost all their money accept the Novo Banco solution to their financial woes, or continue down the legal road to reclaim their deposits in full?
Long after the end of a protracted civil war, Mozambique had declared itself free of landmines.
The major accomplishment comes 23 years after the end of war in the former Portuguese territory.
