• Again global climate protests

    Again global climate protests

    the hague March 15, 2019 15:16 Hot Recent News

    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…

  • Timmermans is officially a top candidate for EU

    Timmermans is officially a top candidate for EU

    lisbon December 8, 2018 15:16 Hot Recent News

    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.

  • Plane on test flight in distress over Portugal

    Plane on test flight in distress over Portugal

    lisbon November 11, 2018 17:48 Hot Recent News

    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.

  • Storm Leslie causes havoc in Portugal

    Storm Leslie causes havoc in Portugal

    lisbon October 14, 2018 16:16 Hot Recent News

    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.

  • Large natural fire threatens villages in Portugal

    Large natural fire threatens villages in Portugal

    lisbon October 7, 2018 06:32 Hot Recent News

    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.

  • Forest fire in Algarve less intense

    Forest fire in Algarve less intense

    lisbon August 9, 2018 22:57 Hot Recent News

    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.

  • Brand Algarve can still take days

    Brand Algarve can still take days

    lisbon August 8, 2018 16:18 Hot Recent News

    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.

  • Leaving streets in Portugal

    Leaving streets in Portugal

    lisbon August 5, 2018 18:36 Hot Recent News

    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.

  • Little boy (6) died accidentally with pool filter

    Little boy (6) died accidentally with pool filter

    lisbon July 23, 2018 08:15 Hot Recent News

    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.

  • Tourists in need call 'wrong' police

    Tourists in need call 'wrong' police

    lisbon July 18, 2018 07:51 Hot Recent News

    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.

  • Big police action against Hells Angels Portugal

    Big police action against Hells Angels Portugal

    lisbon July 11, 2018 15:39 Hot Recent News

    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.

  • Eurovision activist on bail free

    Eurovision activist on bail free

    May 15, 2018 20:33 Hot Recent News

    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.

  • UN boss wants rules for cyber wars

    UN boss wants rules for cyber wars

    lisbon February 19, 2018 16:33 Hot Recent News

    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.

  • Topman Eurogroup free in research maps

    Topman Eurogroup free in research maps

    lisbon February 1, 2018 19:18 Hot Recent News

    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.

  • Heavy snowfall in Greece

    athens December 23, 2017 07:36 Hot Recent News

    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.

  • Government Costa survives motion of distrust

    lisbon October 24, 2017 21:51 Hot Recent News

    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.

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