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Travel Alert | Strike at all Portuguese airports this weekend – Portugal

The Portuguese Transport Workers’ Union (Sindicato dos Trabalhadores dos Transportes de Portugal – STTAMP) has issued a strike notice involving the Portuguese Handling Services, scheduled to impact all national airports from 00:00 on August 31 until midnight on September 1, 2024. The union has warned of potential delays and widespread disruptions to airport services, noting […]

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Community | Azores Government creates office dedicated to the diaspora youth – Fall River, MA

The Regional Secretary for Parliamentary Affairs and Communities, Paulo Estevão, announced that the Government of the Azores is making a historic commitment to recognizing and valuing the Azorean diaspora. Speaking at a meeting with representatives of the Azorean communities in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, held at the House of the Azores of New England, in […]

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Calamity: Devastating wildfires threaten world treasure – Madeira Island

The wildfires that erupted in Madeira on August 14, 2024, initially began in the mountainous region of Ribeira Brava. Still active, the fires have since spread to neighboring areas, including Câmara de Lobos and Ponta do Sol, and beyond.  Now entering their tenth day, the wildfires have scorched over 5,000 hectares of land and temporarily […]

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Great Feast | The Holy Ghost Festival of New England returns to Kennedy Park – Fall River, MA

The Great Feast of The Holy Ghost of New England will be held in Kennedy Park in Fall River, Massachusetts, from August 21 to 25, attracting more than 100,000 participants from across the country, Canada and abroad. Established in Fall River in 1986, and held every year on the last weekend of August, the festival […]

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Opinion | Sizzling heat and drought in southern Portugal – Len Port

Reservoir levels in southern Portugal have fallen again, coinciding with global temperatures reaching record highs. Official meteorological statistics show that at the end of June, the south of Portugal was suffering extreme drought, while the intensity was more moderate in the cities of Beja and Evora in the Alentejo, as well as part of the […]

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Book | Fernando Pessoa: Imagination and the Self | Jonardon Ganeri | Editor’s Note

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is the quintessential philosophical outsider. Affiliated to no institution, and associated with no traditional school, in his prose fiction and poetry, Pessoa invented a new philosophy of the human subject, arguing that imagination is key to human flourishing and human self-enrichment. Each of us, he claimed, can use our powers of imagination […]

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