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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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- 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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- 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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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jun 7
- 16 min
Eucalyptus: A Plague to Most, Profit to Few
Armando Carvalho removed eucalyptus trees from his family’s 12 hectares of land in Santa Comba Dao, where the Great Fire of October 2017...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jun 1
- 7 min
Pedrogao Chief: "A Scapegoat"; I Could Be Next, Say Firefighters
An honor guard of about 200 commanders and firefighters greeted Commander Augusto Arnaut on his morning arrival at the Leiria courthouse...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- May 23
- 3 min
EDP Defense Says Pedrogao Land-Cleaning Plan Expired 5 Years Before Fire
“The road of death” in the Pedrogao Grande fire The two electricity firm employees should be acquitted, argued the lawyer for E-REDES, in...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- May 23
- 6 min
Portugal’s COVID-19 Variant: A Wake-Up Call
Graça Freitas, director of DGS (General-Directorate of Health), by the internationally acclaimed political cartoonist Andre Carrilho...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- May 19
- 5 min
Pedrogao: State Wants Jail for Fire Chief, EDP Employee, 3 Ascendi Workers
The Public Ministry asked that Augusto Arnaut, commander of the Volunteer Firefighters of Pedrogao Grande, serve more than five years. ...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- May 17
- 1 min
How to Make Elderflower Cordial: A Taste of Summer
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...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- May 13
- 3 min
Biggest Fish Caught in Tagus River: 2.17-Meter Predator
Joao Lobo Cristino donated his European catfish to the Center for Marine and Environmental Sciences (MARE) for study of the invasive...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- May 9
- 10 min
Old Belize-Guatemalan Land Dispute Nears End
Source: World Politics Review (May 23, 2019) Three years ago, the International Court of Justice began deliberating Guatemala’s claim...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- May 3
- 3 min
Portugal to Hire 500 More Specialized Firefighters
The government authorized the creation of 100 new Permanent Intervention Teams in fire departments on mainland Portugal. Each team will...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Apr 29
- 8 min
Pedrogao Fire’s “Communication System Failures”
Constança Urbano de Sousa, the Minister of Internal Administration, at the time of the catastrophic 2017 fires (Photo by Manuel De...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Apr 21
- 9 min
Covas do Barroso Sues State Over Lithium
David Archer, chief executive officer of Savannah Resources, which has a contract, recently contested, for one of the most advanced...
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- Apr 19
- 1 min
Kiss of Judas Metes Out Death
Every year in my village, The traitor, Judas, must pay for his kiss. He and his wife hang from the chapel belfry, Swinging effigies...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Apr 12
- 1 min
Interior of a Church in Portugal (1954, Sabine Weiss)
“I photograph to preserve the ephemeral, fix chance, to keep in an image what will disappear: gestures, attitudes, objects which are...
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