US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, met with Portugal’s Foreign Minister Paulo Portas at the State Department, Tuesday, followed by a joint press conference. In her opening statement, Secretary Clinton remarked that the economic challenges now facing Portugal and Europe were the main topic of their conversation. She said, “I want to say very clearly […]
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Press conference: Paulo Portas meets with Hillary Clinton – Washington
Posted on 28 September 2011.
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Nelly Furtado keeps promise to give money back – Canada
Posted on 28 September 2011.
Portuguese-Canadian pop singer, Nelly Furtado, said Tuesday she is donating $1 million to Free the Children, a global charity organization. She said the money will help build an all-girls secondary school in Kenya. Reportedly, the donation amounts to the sum Furtado earned performing a 45-minute private concert for family members of ousted Libyan leader Moammar […]
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President Aristides Pereira laid to rest on Boavista – Cape Verde
Posted on 27 September 2011.
The body of Aristides Pereira, Cape Verde’s first-ever president, has now arrived in the West African country following his death at age 87 in Portugal last week. There was a large crowd in attendance at the airport, including former president Pedro Pires, members of the government, the military, family and friends. The state funeral of […]
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Azorean student delegation visiting Massachusetts
Posted on 27 September 2011.
By Carolina Matos, Editor – They are only sixteen, but Ana Silva, Ana Silveira and Ines Amarante are having the experience of a lifetime. They are students at Escola Básica e Secundária das Velas, São Jorge Island, in the Azores, visiting the United States for the first time from September 23-27. They were the winners […]
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13th AngraJazz International Festival – Azores
Posted on 27 September 2011.
The Angra Jazz Cultural Association is hosting the 13th AngraJazz International Festival to be held October 6-8, at Centro de Congressos, Angra do Heroismo, Terceira, Azores. Guest musicians include Portuguese jazz performer Júlio Resende and Larry Coryell, Bill Carrothers, Kurt Elling, Charles Lloyd, and Dave Douglas from the United States, among many others. The event […]
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International Symposium: Portuguese-Canadian Immigrant Descendants in Canada
Posted on 26 September 2011.
The University of York is hosting the “International Symposium on Identity, Civic Engagement, Multiculturalism and Transnationalism: Portuguese Canadian Immigrant Descendants in Canada,” to be held on October 11-12, in Toronto, Ontario. Professor Fernando Nunes will be the keynote speaker for the event which will congregate 26 international scholars and researchers. The topics to be addressed […]
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