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Community | FBI raids Superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s home and office  Community | Diaspora mobilizes to join storm relief effort Teolinda Gersão | Narrative talent transcending literary boundaries Social Media | Parliament proposes bill requiring parental consent for minors Update | Persistent severe downpouring forces evacuations
 

Community | FBI raids Superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s home and office – Los Angeles, CA

Federal authorities have executed search warrants at the residence and district office of Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), as part of an ongoing investigation led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). According to federal officials, agents carried out “court-authorized search warrants” at Carvalho’s home in the San Pedro […]

Community | Diaspora mobilizes to join storm relief effort – Portugal

The Portuguese American communities across the United States are mobilizing in solidarity with families and municipalities in Portugal, affected by a succession of severe rainstorms that have caused fatalities, widespread flooding, infrastructure damage, and displacement across several regions.  Relief authorities in Portugal report significant impacts on housing, local businesses, agriculture, and public infrastructure, underscoring the […]

Teolinda Gersão | Narrative talent transcending literary boundaries – Interview

By Maria Duran On the 29th of October, 2025, Portuguese writer Teolinda Gersão became a second-time winner of the APE-DGLAB Romance and Novel Grand Prize. Autobiografia não escrita de Martha Freud (2024), [The Unwritten Autobiography of Martha Freud], published by Porto Editora, earned her the 43rd edition of the award, organized by the Portuguese Writers […]

Social Media | Parliament proposes bill requiring parental consent for minors – Portugal

Portugal’s parliament has approved legislation that would restrict minors’ access to social media platforms by requiring parental authorization for users under the age of 16, making it one of Europe’s most concrete legislative steps toward regulating youth activity online. The proposal, introduced by the Social Democratic Party (PSD), mandates explicit, verified parental consent for minors […]

Update | Persistent severe downpouring forces evacuations – Portugal

Heavy and persistent rainfall continues to affect mainland Portugal as successive Atlantic systems prolong saturated ground conditions and heighten flood risk across several regions, forcing evacuations. Prime Minister Luís Montenegro described the extreme weather episodes as a “devastating crisis” affecting communities across the country while emphasizing that emergency coordination and recovery efforts continue nationwide. Mário […]

Portugal: Minister of the Sea addresses the Atlantic Council – Washington,DC

20 September 2016

By C. Naseer Ahmad, Contributor (*) The Atlantic Council – a Washington based think tank – presented Portugal’s Minister of the Sea, Ms. Ana Paula Vitorino to discuss strategic areas of cooperation between two natural allies. “Bilateral ties date from the earliest years of the United State” and “Following the American Revolutionary War, Portugal was the […]

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Posted in Azores, Conferences, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World

Portugal: President Rebelo de Sousa to address the United Nations – New York, NY

19 September 2016

The President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, will briefly address on Tuesday, September 20, the United Nations General Assembly’s High-Level Meeting on Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants. The intervention by the President of Portugal, taking place late in the afternoon, is followed by a reception hosted by the President of the United States […]

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Posted in Community, Conferences, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World

Book: ‘Dialog of a Veteran Soldier’ – Editor’s Note

07 September 2016

Fraud, scandal, theft of royal funds, official graft, and cover-ups: these are the subjects of the 1612 exposé written by Diogo do Couto in his Dialog of a Veteran Soldier. Couto revealed too much and as a result, this work had to wait more than 175 years until its first publication in 1790. This classic […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Damão, Diu, Featured, Goa, Politics, Portugal, World

Book: ‘New Approaches to Lusophone Culture’ – Editor’s Note

05 September 2016

The history of Brazil is marked by the transfer of the Portuguese crown to Rio de Janeiro and the declaration of its independence in 1822 whereas African colonies underwent the Colonial War in the 1960s and 1970s in the context of the Portuguese Estado Novo, while Macau, which was the last European Colony in Asia, […]

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Posted in Angola, Arts&Culture, Books, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Featured, Film, Guiné-Bissau, Heritage, Macau, Mozambique, Politics, Portugal, São Tomé and Prince, World

Justice: Iraqi suspects being probed over assault and battery charges – Portugal

25 August 2016

Portuguese national, Rúben Cavaco, 15, was allegedly assaulted by the twin sons of Iraqi ambassador in Portugal Saad Mohammed Ridha. The victim suffered a fractured skull and other severe injuries which left him in a coma for several days. The injuries apparently resulted of a fight outside a bar in Ponte de Sor, about 110 […]

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Posted in Featured, People, Portugal, World

Book: ‘The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe’ – Editor’s Note

16 August 2016

In 2010, the 2008 global financial crisis morphed into the “eurocrisis.” It has not abated. The 19 countries of Europe that share the euro currency―the eurozone―have been rocked by economic stagnation and debt crises. Some countries have been in depression for years while the governing powers of the eurozone have careened from emergency to emergency, […]

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Posted in Books, Featured, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World