CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD

An honor guard of about 200 commanders and firefighters greeted Commander Augusto Arnaut on his morning arrival at the Leiria courthouse...

“The road of death” in the Pedrógão Grande fire The two electricity firm employees should be acquitted, argued the lawyer for E-REDES, in...

Graça Freitas, director of DGS (General-Directorate of Health), by the internationally acclaimed political cartoonist Andre Carrilho...

The Public Ministry asked that Augusto Arnaut, commander of the Volunteer Firefighters of Pedrógão Grande, serve more than five years. ...

An elderflower head: Elderflowers are considered to be a sign of summer in some countries. It is easy to make a cordial of elderflower, a...

Joao Lobo Cristino donated his European catfish to the Center for Marine and Environmental Sciences (MARE) for study of the invasive...

Source: World Politics Review (May 23, 2019) Three years ago, the International Court of Justice began deliberating Guatemala’s claim...

The government authorized the creation of 100 new Permanent Intervention Teams in fire departments on mainland Portugal. Each team will...

Constança Urbano de Sousa, the Minister of Internal Administration, at the time of the catastrophic 2017 fires (Photo by Manuel De...

David Archer, chief executive officer of Savannah Resources, which has a contract, recently contested, for one of the most advanced...

A Queima do Judas Every year in my village in Oliveira do Hospital, The traitor, Judas, must pay for his kiss. He and his wife hang from...

“I photograph to preserve the ephemeral, fix chance, to keep in an image what will disappear: gestures, attitudes, objects which are...

The medieval city of Viseu ((pronounced vee say oo) sits in the center of Portugal surrounded by mountains and rivers. On a Friday night,...

Alzira Luiz in front of her house in Rapos, Castanheira de Pera, which was destroyed by the fire and still was being rebuilt in September...

Most of the deaths occurred on National Road 236-1, which connects Castanheira de Pera and Figueiro dos Vinhos. Portugal has an...

MAP OF SUSCEPTIBILITY TO RADON -- Parishes with more than 10% high-risk area are considered highly susceptible (Elevado) (1,812...

Prince William danced in the Garifuna village of Hopkins, Belize. The Garinagu (plural of Garifuna) are descendants of an...

For three years, many in Montalegre , Portugal, have opposed the proposed mine with protests, petitions and links with other groups. At...

Dust from the Sahara Desert in North Africa traveled first to Spain on March 14 and, then, to Portugal on the following day, painting the...

Valentyna Konstantynovska, 79, in combat training for civilians in Mariupol, Ukraine (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/The Associated Press) Tome-se...