The Portugal News

The Government will launch an international public tender on 2 June worth €3 million to ensure the daily distribution of paper newspapers in low-density territories over the next three years, a government source told Lusa.

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Workers at the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) will begin a four-day strike on 1 June, protesting against the “persistence of structural problems that seriously affect workers and the functioning of services.”

The Local Health Unit of Central Alentejo (ULSAC) will open 100 vacancies for doctors of various specialities, already thinking about the new hospital that is under construction in Évora.

Valença will host the Vinhos do Atlântico event in June, bringing together wine, gastronomy, spaces for reflection, and music to celebrate the wine culture and shared terroir of Minho and Galicia.

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Mainland Portugal has just joined other European nations in breaking historical maximum temperature records this May. 

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There are towns in Portugal that whisper their stories. And then there’s Serpa, a place that seems to exhale them into the warm Alentejo air. 

Don’t knock it until you have tried it!

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The Tâmega and Corgo International Ecovia, between Vila Real, Santa Marta de Penaguião and Régua, represents an investment of €1.3 million and will occupy the channel of the deactivated railway line, it was announced.

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The University of Coimbra is moving forward with the final stages of equipment installation for the UC Biomed building, aiming to inaugurate it “in the coming months,” the institution told the Lusa news agency.

There are destinations that clang and glitter, declaring their importance with huge edifices of steel and glass. 

Great wooden walkway over the lagoon, with the possibility of bird watching.

The Festivities in Honour of Our Lady of Nazaré return this year to the Terreiro do Sítio, where they have not been held since 1999, the City Council announced, a partner in organising the celebrations alongside the Confraternity of Our Lady of Nazaré.

He was born in Bethsaida, in Galilee, and worked as a fisherman.

The Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre (IPP) welcomed the approval of the higher professional technical course (CTeSP) in Bioenergy and Renewable Gases, considering it “a training offer with a future”.

And don’t know its history.

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The PSD/CDS resolution recommending that the Government create a civic-military program to attract young people to the Armed Forces was approved today in a final overall vote, with abstentions from the PS and JPP.

Ghana has declared its first marine protected area in an effort to conserve biodiversity and protect coastal ecosystems. 

The Lisbon Metropolitan Area (AML) and the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) are coordinating the creation of a network of local support centres for migrants in the region.

The Portugal News are delighted to be attending this exclusive launch of the KOBALTSKY Industrial Art Collection, taking place at the stunning NAUTK Rooftop in Cascais this evening.

Argentina is working to restore jaguar populations in northern wetlands through conservation and rewilding programmes. 

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The Panama Canal is operating near capacity as US energy exports increase amid tensions in the Strait of Hormuz. 

The Belém Tower in Lisbon, one of the country’s most visited monuments, reopened on 27 May, “shining” after a year of restoration work and with a new public access model designed to reduce waiting lines.

Mexico is launching a universal healthcare programme aimed at expanding access to free medical services across the country. 

The country ranked sixth in the new international sustainability report.

A new Australian study has found that four-day workweeks can improve work-life balance and reduce burnout without reducing productivity. 

There are several easy ways you can boost your daily fibre intake.

From 1 to 7 June, fuel prices are expected to decrease.

France has passed a new law allowing the restitution of cultural artefacts looted during colonial rule.

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Direct train services between Prague and Copenhagen have returned after more than a decade, reconnecting the Czech Republic and Denmark through an overnight rail route. 

There are many shelters and associations in the Algarve. 

Sixty basketball players with intellectual disabilities from five municipalities in Viseu are participating in the “Dribbling the Difference” project, which the organisation intends to expand to the entire district in the coming years.

A Dutch inventor has announced plans to stop 90 percent of floating sea plastic by 2040 through a large-scale ocean clean-up system. 

When Denis O’Regan talks about photographing David Bowie, the stories do not begin with fame. They begin with trust.

Virginia has become the first southern US state to mandate paid family and medical leave for workers.

Quinta da Plansel, in Montemor-o-Novo, Évora, founded by a German family about half a century ago, produces up to 400,000 bottles of Alentejo wine, from cloned vines of the same grape variety, some of which are even exported to Jamaica.