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Travel Alert! Lisbon Airport suspends European Border Control System for three months Community | Fundraiser for slain MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro surpasses $350,000 Book | Three Stories of Forgetting | By Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida Update | Portuguese national identified as suspect in the killings at Brown and MIT – Boston, MA Community | Portuguese physicist Nuno Loureiro fatally shot in Brookline
 

Travel Alert! Lisbon Airport suspends European Border Control System for three months – Portugal

The Portuguese government has announced the temporary suspension of the European Union’s Entry/Exit System (EES) at Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado Airport for a period of three months. The measure applies exclusively to Lisbon Airport and is intended to relieve pressure on passport control operations during peak travel periods. During the suspension, border authorities will revert to […]

Community | Fundraiser for slain MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro surpasses $350,000 –  Boston, MA

The family of Nuno Loureiro, a respected Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor, who was tragically killed earlier this month, continues to receive an extraordinary outpouring of support from the community and friends.  Professor Loureiro was fatally shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on December 15, 2025, and died the following day at a […]

Book | Three Stories of Forgetting | By Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida – Editor’s  Note

Three men haunt these pages. Perhaps they are tormented ghosts who cannot find rest. All three have been expelled in some way, sent on solitary journeys into the night. Celestino, an old slave trader, returns to the solitude of his home and garden after a life of horrors. Boa Morte da Silva, an Angolan who […]

Update | Portuguese national identified as suspect in the killings at Brown and MIT – Boston, MA

In a major development, law-enforcement officials have publicly identified the suspect in the killings at Brown University and MIT’s Professor Nuno F. Gomes Loureiro, as Cláudio Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national from Torres Novas, Portugal. Authorities said Valente was later found dead in Salem, New Hampshire, on Thursday, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Professor […]

Community | Portuguese physicist Nuno Loureiro fatally shot in Brookline – Massachusetts

Portuguese physicist Nuno F. Gomes Loureiro, 47, a distinguished professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, was fatally shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, late on the evening of Monday, December 15. Authorities confirmed that Loureiro, originally from Viseu, Portugal, was found with multiple […]

Business: BorgWarner Inc. opens prodution facility in Viana do Castelo – Portugal

07 November 2014

The United States-based, BorgWarner Inc., a multinational corporation supplier of automotive components and parts, has open today, November 7, a new production facility in the industrial zone of Lanheses, Viana do Castelo, Portugal. The new production facility will further strengthen BorgWarner’s position as the leading supplier of eco-friendly exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) consisting of reducing […]

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Posted in Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

Opinion: Will British expats be in limbo if UK exits the EU? – By Len Port

06 November 2014

By Len Port, Contributor(*) British expats in Portugal could be excused for wincing at recent utterances by Prime Minister David Cameron. In declaring that he was drawing a “red line” on the number of unskilled immigrants flooding into the UK, Mr Cameron said he would be demanding restrictions on freedom of movement within the EU. […]

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Posted in Featured, Politics, Portugal

Community: Open Letter to the Azorean Airlines SATA – Fall River, MA

06 November 2014

For a few months a group of immigrants resident in the United States and Canada and with origins in the Azorean islands has been formed to lobby members of the administration of SATA airlines to try to resolve several problems that they are very much concerned about. Despite the complaints presented by “Clientes insatisfeitos da SATA” […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Heritage, Organizations, People, Travel

Music: Portuguese duet “Doppio Ensemble” in concert – UMD

05 November 2014

The Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese American Archives at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announces a free concert by Doppio Ensemble. The event will take place at 6:00pm in Room 153 of the Center for Visual and Performing Arts on November 18, 2014, parking lot 9. This performance is followed by a second concert to be will be […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Community, Education, Entertainment, Featured, Heritage, Music, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

Katherine Vaz: Our Lady of Literature – Interview

31 October 2014

By Millicent Borges Accardi, Contributor (*) Katherine Vaz is the author of two novels: Saudade and Mariana; and two collections of short fiction: Fado and Other Stories and Our Lady of the Artichokes. The literary critic Vamberto Freitas praised Saudade as the first Portuguese-American novel to receive “significant attention from the American literary world,” and […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, Interviews, People, Portugal, World

Ebola: The risk of an outbreak in Portugal remains low – Portugal

31 October 2014

The risk of an Ebola outbreak in Portugal is low but it could increase significantly if the epidemic reaches Guinea-Bissau which still remains free of the disease. Portugal would be at greater risk due the large number of people from its former west Africa colony living in the country. “If the epidemic invades Guinea-Bissau the […]

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Posted in Featured, Guiné-Bissau, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

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