21 April 2022
Francisco António Duarte Lopes, 59, has been appointed the new Ambassador of Portugal in Washington. A career diplomat, he has served as permanent representative of Portugal to the United Nations (UN) since 2017. He replaces Domingos Fezas Vital who became Ambassador of Portugal to the United States in 2015. Prior to his appointment as Permanent […]
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19 April 2022
Bringing to life his countrymen’s daily struggles with the sea, struggles carried out against the dark-stoned background of their homeland, novelist Dias de Melo tells the collective story of Azorean seamen at a moment of great change toward the end of the nineteenth century. Confronted with increasing economic hardship and social and political tensions, whalers […]
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18 April 2022
As a country fully committed to nuclear disarmament, Portugal shares most of the concerns of others about the lack of concrete steps on this by the major powers within the United Nations General Assembly. It is Portugal’s view that the well- documented catastrophic humanitarian consequences of the use of nuclear weapons should reinforce commitments to […]
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14 April 2022
Students at Horizon Science Academy Columbus High, based in Columbus, Ohio, and Catholic University of America, are participating in the ‘Global Sustainable Design’ initiative, ‘Dream on Amazing’, that aims at bringing together international Students, Architects, and Space entities around one very intriguing question: can we be inspired by Mars to create a more sustainable future […]
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09 April 2022
By Millicent Borges Accardi Founded in 2014, the Saudade Theater was created to discover, translate and produce Portuguese works for American audiences. In the group’s own words, it is “the first and only theatre company in the United States dedicated to producing original and thought-provoking work grounded in the Portuguese-American consciousness.” Made up of an […]
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07 April 2022
The President of the Parliament, Augusto Santos Silva, announced Thursday that following a formal invitation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will address the Assembly of Republic on a date to be scheduled. The announcement was made, after the Ambassador of Ukraine in Lisbon, Ihnna Ohnivetz, met formally with Augusto Santos Silva. Santos Silva has stated, “This […]
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