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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 Portugal Named “Economy of the Year 2025” by The Economist
 

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 […]

Portugal Named “Economy of the Year 2025” by The Economist – London, UK

Portugal has been selected by the British magazine The Economist as the “Economy of the Year” for 2025, placing the country at the top of a ranking of the world’s 36 richest economies   Titled “Which economy did best in 2025?”,  the magazine highlighted Portugal’s strong blend of macroeconomic indicators, including solid GDP growth, low inflation, […]

Opinion: Syrian chemical weapons pose moral dilemmas – By Len Port

04 September 2013

By Len Port, Contributor (*) The Portuguese government would like to see a military punitive response to the recent use of chemical weapons in Syria, but only if it is backed “as far as possible” by an international organization such as the Security Council of the United Nations. This cautious view is in contrast to […]

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Posted in Featured, Heritage, People, Politics, Portugal, World

Travel: Lisbon named “Europe’s Leading City Break Destination” – Portugal

02 September 2013

For the third time in the last five years, Lisbon was voted Europe’s Leading City Break Destination by the prestigious World Travel Awards (WTA). Considered to be the world ‘Oscars’ of tourism destinations, the honor tops Madrid, London, Istanbul, Dublin, Paris, Rome and Venice. Lisbon had earned the same recognition in 2009 and 2010 over […]

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Posted in Awards, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, Portugal, Travel, World

Book: An Unwritten Novel: Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet – By Thomas J. Cousineau – Review

29 August 2013

By Michael Colson, Contributor (*) Thomas J. Cousineau’s scholarly expertise on twentieth-century literary modernism informs his new critical study An Unwritten Novel: Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet (Dalkey Archive 2013).  Cousineau offers us an informed introduction to a leading document of modernism that serves scholarly interests and undergraduate teaching needs. After earning a doctoral […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, Portugal, World

Pico: New archaeological evidence reveals human presence before Portuguese occupation – Azores

28 August 2013

Archaeologists from the Portuguese Association of Archaeological Research (APIA) have identified new archaeological evidence on Pico island that supports their belief that human occupation of the Azores predates the arrival of the Portuguese by many thousands of years. The new evidence comprises of a great variety of protohistoric pyramidal rock structures, some of them 13 […]

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Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Pico, Portugal, Terceira, World

Opinion: Portugal’s UN hopes on Syria fade – by Len Port

27 August 2013

By Len Port, Contributor (*) As the international rhetoric ratchets up over the use of chemical weapons, Portugal may to be drawn into possible foreign military intervention in the civil war in Syria, but only on the fringe. The US Secretary of State John Kerry issued the strongest signal yet that the United States intends […]

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Posted in Azores, Featured, Politics, Portugal, World

Arts: Alexandre Farto (VHILS) represented at the Life is Beautiful Festival – Las Vegas

27 August 2013

Portuguese artist, Alexandre Farto  (Vhils), one of the biggest names in international street art, will be represented  at the first Life is Beautiful Festival taking place October 26-27 in Las Vegas (NV). The interactive art programming, complete with theatrical, visual and street art projects is comprised of three separate initiatives, bringing artists out of their […]

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