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School students from all over the world have skipped school to demand that governments take more action against climate change. Worldwide more than 2000 protests were scheduled in…

The number of Dutch cannabis plantations abroad is increasing drastically. Reporter Radio reports after Sunday that in Belgium, Germany and Spain more and more plantations with Dutch...

A bit of luck for customers of airline Cathay Pacific. Due to an error, they got a 90 percent discount on tickets for the first class on Sunday. Cathay has the sale right away...

A trauma helicopter crashed Saturday night in a mountainous area near Porto, the second largest city in Portugal. The four occupants, two pilots, a nurse and...

The European Social Democrats have officially elected Frans Timmermans on Saturday as their candidate for the presidency of the European Commission. The more than one thousand delegates confirmed the candidacy of the former Minister of Foreign Affairs during a party day of the European Social Democrats in Lisbon.

A plane from the Kazakh airline Air Astana was in great distress during a test flight over Portugal on Sunday and could barely land. After the pilots had first considered making an emergency landing in the sea, it was finally possible to reach the airport of Beja with great difficulty, 150 kilometers southeast of Lisbon, reported Portuguese media.

The tropical storm Leslie caused much damage during the night from Saturday to Sunday along the coast of Portugal. Trees and electricity poles fanned, roofs flew from houses, roads were blocked and there was a lot of flooding, especially in the province of Estremadura north of the capital Lisbon.

A large natural fire broke out in a national park on the coast of Portugal. The newspaper Jornal de Notícias reports that more than five hundred firefighters fight the conflagration spreading over the natural park of Sintra-Cascais, west of the capital Lisbon. The inhabitants of neighboring villages are evacuated as a precaution.

Off the coast of Portugal, archaeologists have found a ship wreck that has been there for four hundred years. The ship sank near Lisbon when it probably returned from India with spices.

The Portuguese authorities control the nature fire in the Algarve. 'At the moment there is no longer any risk that the fire will spread,' said the head of the operation.

The destructive forest fire that has been raging in the Algarve for a week is on its way. A spokesperson for the Portuguese population protection service said that the intensity has decreased and 'there are no more active fire fronts'. In addition to the efforts of more than 1400 firefighters, military personnel and volunteers, this is also due to a weather change. The temperature on the south coast dropped significantly, to around 25 degrees.

The Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa has warned that it may take days before the huge natural fire that rages in the Algarve will have been extinguished. The authorities sent another 120 firefighters to the tourist region in the south on Wednesday.

About 25 people were injured by a forest fire in the north of the Algarve in Portugal. The Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias reported that one of the injured is in bad shape.

The great heat in Portugal creates unusual scenes in public life. In the streets of the capital Lisbon, but also in other places, this weekend was almost deserted on the streets. Temperatures in many places between 44 and 47 degrees meant that the Portuguese sought protection from the heat.

In the heat-affected Portugal, dozens of fires are burning. One of the largest fires rages in mountainous areas near Monchique on the north side of the Algarve, which is popular with tourists.

A heartbreaking story. The 6-year-old Vic from Belgium got stuck during his vacation with his arm in a pool filter. It cost more than a quarter of an hour before he was released. 'Ideally, we would have recovered him, even with a brain injury. But Vic stayed under water for too long, resuscitation took a long time, 'said the boy's parents.

Two American tourists who were stuck in a lift in Portugal have received help from an unexpected corner. The women searched online for the telephone number of the Lisbon police ('Lisbon'), but called unhappily with the emergency services in a place of the same name in Maine, an American state.

In a major police action against the motorcycle club Hells Angels in Portugal, more than thirty arrests have been made. The police entered the eighty houses on Wednesday. More than four hundred cops and an anti-terror unit were involved in raids across the country.

The availability of cocaine in the European Union is increasing. The drug is also easier to get and has the highest purity in ten years. The EU drugs agency (EMCDDA) writes this in the drugs report 2018.

The Eurovision Song Contest 2019 may not be held in Jerusalem. This said the Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport, Yossi Sharabi, against Israeli media.

Delay is less annoying when Ray Chen (29) is on the plane. The 29-year-old violinist managed to put a smile on the face of many air passengers during an emergency landing in Porto.

The man who disrupted the performance of the British singer SuRie on Saturday night during the Eurovision Song Contest final is bail-free. That is what the EBU, the organization behind the song festival, has announced.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations calls for international agreements on digital warfare between countries. According to UN boss António Guterres, it is unclear whether existing treaties have anything to say about such conflicts.

At the international airport of Lisbon a man was arrested on Monday who had hidden a kilo of cocaine in fake buttocks. These buttocks were processed in a special pants.

Justice in Portugal ceases an investigation into the Portuguese Minister of Finance and Euro Group Chairman Mario Centeno. The prosecutor stated that it became clear that Centeno was not guilty of favoritism or any other offense.

The Portuguese police have invaded the Portuguese Ministry of Finance. According to local media, the raid was aimed at Eurogroup chairman Mario Centeno who would have accepted tickets from his favorite football club Benfica.

Heavy snowfall has turned large parts of northern and central Greece into a winter landscape. The state television (ERT) reported that hundreds of motorists were stuck all night until Saturday in a huge traffic jam about 100 kilometers north of Athens. Several trucks were stranded on the icy roads at this important north-south axis. The problem could only be solved in the early Saturday morning.

The Portuguese government has survived a motion of mistrust for failing policy during the devastating natural fires that hit the country this year. A majority of parliament did not want to send the entire cabinet of Socialist Prime Minister Antonio Costa home. The fire seas in June and October cost a total of 110 people.

The Portuguese Minister of the Interior has gone up because of the fatal nature fires that landed the country.

Portugal has announced three days of mourning for the victims of natural fires in recent days. As a result, 36 people lost their lives. The Portuguese weather service expects the fire hazard to diminish on Tuesday because it's raining.