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Pedrogao Fire: All 11 Defendants Acquitted
Commander Augusto Arnaut (left) of the Pedrogao Grande Volunteer Firefighters arriving at the Tribunal Court of Leiria A panel of judges...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Sep 8
- 13 min
Belize: Vulcan Mining Plan Extracts Protests, Foresight
(Photo by Amandala) Along with the vociferous opposition of local residents and several government ministers to Vulcan Materials...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Sep 4
- 13 min
"Ecotopia" Trashes 40-Hour Workweek
Northern California, Oregon and Washington, secede from the U.S. as Ecotopia. Futuristic novels such as George Orwell’s 1984, Ray...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Aug 28
- 12 min
Portugal: Have Your Say on Lithium Plant by September 13
For fixed contracts, the annual average U.S. lithium carbonate price was $17,000 per ton in 2021, more than double that in 2020, reported...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Aug 21
- 5 min
Heart of Dom Pedro on Show in Portugal, Then Brazil
A queue of hundreds already had lined up at a church in Porto an hour and a half before its doors opened on August 20 to view what few...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Aug 18
- 12 min
Belize Boosting Coconut Industry; Buying Seeds From Brazil
Harvested coconuts in Belize Belize plans to buy 36,000 disease-tolerant and high-yielding coconut seeds from Brazil, which is in keeping...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Aug 11
- 9 min
Belize Rising Above Sargassum Swamp
“This year has been the worst on record. . . . We don’t know if this is the new normal. This has been devastating for over a decade.” A...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Aug 1
- 10 min
More Droughts, Less Grapes for Portugal, Spain
The Azores high, or Azores anticyclone, is a high-pressure system that can block wet weather fronts to the Iberian Peninsula and is...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jul 28
- 3 min
Portugal: Save Water, Ease Drought
“We don’t control what the weather does, but we can control what we do with time. One minute a day, let’s turn the tap dry.” An official...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jul 27
- 10 min
Pessoa’s "Disquiet": “Strange", "Sublime" and Portuguese
Looking in the mirror, Pessoa says he saw several times what appeared to be the heteronyms, his “face fading out” and replaced by the one...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jul 22
- 2 min
Portugal’s Oldest Woman Dies at 113, Outliving a King, 2 Pandemics and 2 World Wars
Encarnaçao Sousa died at 113 years and 123 days old The last king of Portugal, Dom Manuel II, sat on the throne of Portugal in Lisbon...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jul 17
- 5 min
Portugal's Fires: "No One Is Safe"
Fighting a fire that burned a shed of firewood beside a house in Macieira (Photo by Paulo Novais/Lusa) Wildfires raged over much of...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jul 7
- 5 min
Savannah Lithium Suffers Blow in Portugal and London
Location of the proposed Mina do Barroso (Savannah Resources) Savannah Resources sustained a setback when the Portuguese Environment...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jul 5
- 13 min
Angela Merkel to Chair Portugal’s Gulbenkian Prize Jury
Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, at one time one of the world's richest people, was most proud of his art collection and his role as a...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jun 27
- 3 min
Belize at U.N. Ocean Summit; Guterres Speaks Portuguese
U.N. Secretary-General Guterres (center, lowest row) with President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa As a native son of Lisbon, the United Nations...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jun 25
- 6 min
Portugal: Number of Foreign Residents Rises for 6th Year
Geographical distribution of foreign residents (From Immigration, Borders and Asylum Report 2021) published by Serviço de Estrangeiros...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jun 24
- 1 min
Shameful Abortion Ruling
By the internationally acclaimed political cartoonist, Andre Carrilho Abortion is not a religious issue. It is not a partisan issue....
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jun 21
- 1 min
Stonehenge Lures Thousands for Summer Solstice
Thousands flocked to the mysterious rings of stones at Stonehenge for the summer solstice (June 21), when the rays of the rising sun...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jun 17
- 7 min
Portugal, U.K. to Celebrate World’s Oldest Alliance of 650 Years
PM Boris Johnson presented PM Antonio Costa with the original treaty at 10 Downing Street (Photo by Jornal de...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jun 10
- 5 min
Belize PM Briceno Blasts U.S. Summit for Snub of Cuba, Venezuela
“The summit belongs to all the Americas. It is incomprehensible that we isolate countries of the Americas that have provided strong...
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