23 July 2021
The Portuguese government has announced that the current “calamity situation,” will be extended until August 8, in response to a four-month high daily new COVID-19 cases and deaths. The “calamity situation,” affective for mainland Portugal only, is the highest response to a national emergency. According to data from the Directorate-General of Health (DGS), on Thursday […]
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20 July 2021
A 48-hour strike, by Groundforece, the Portuguese airport baggage handlers and ground personnel, canceled about 650 flights on Saturday through Sunday and Monday, mainly at the Lisbon Humberto Delgado airport. Around 100% of workers have taken part in the weekend strike in Lisbon and Porto airports, the busiest airports in the country. The Union of […]
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11 July 2021
The lives of about 50 million people worldwide have been shattered without any hope of recovery by Alzheimer’s or some other form of dementia. The number is increasing by about 10 million a year, according to the World Health Organisation. In Portugal, around 200,000 people – more than twice as many women as men – have […]
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09 July 2021
Robert Correia, a longtime member of the Massachusetts Legislature and later the mayor of Fall River, has died at the age of 82. He was House majority whip for six years. One of the bigger local political figures in the past 50 years, he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1977 […]
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08 July 2021
When a young woman is subjected to a violent attack, the impact of colonialism, patriarchy, and who we choose to love are thrown into sharp relief. Daria is an immigrant woman living in Toronto, and as she begins to tell her story, the reader is pulled into different worlds, travelling to various timeframes and locations […]
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06 July 2021
Portuguese born Daniela Braga, founder of DefinedCrowd, was appointed by Biden administration’s National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Resource Task Force, whose 12-member team mission is to advise the federal government. The team will prepare a guide for the creation of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Center, a platform for sharing research and providing artificial information […]
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