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Diplomacy | President António José Seguro to meet Pope Leo XIV Diplomacy | Prime Minister Luís Montenegro to address the  81st UN General Assembly Community | Nazaré and Half Moon Bay to establish sister-city partnership Community: Remembering the Portuguese victims of September 9/11 Community | Portuguese citizen detained by ICE has been deported
 

Diplomacy | President António José Seguro to meet Pope Leo XIV – Vatican

Portugal’s President, António José Seguro, arrived in Rome on Wednesday, September 23, for a two-day official visit to the Holy See, with an audience with Pope Leo XIV scheduled for Thursday, September 24, at 9:00 a.m. local time at the Vatican.  The Portuguese Presidency confirms that the official visit program also includes talks with Archbishop […]

Diplomacy | Prime Minister Luís Montenegro to address the  81st UN General Assembly – New York, NY

Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro will travel to New York from September 22 to 24 to represent Portugal at the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly. On Thursday, September 24, Montenegro is expected to deliver Portugal’s national address to the Assembly at approximately 2:15 p.m. New York time. The theme for this year’s […]

Community | Nazaré and Half Moon Bay to establish sister-city partnership – California

The Municipality of Nazaré, Portugal, and the City of Half Moon Bay, California, are moving forward with a new sister-city partnership designed to strengthen ties between two coastal communities united by the sea, maritime traditions, tourism, Portuguese heritage and an international reputation for big-wave surfing. On July 21, 2026, the Half Moon Bay City Council […]

Community: Remembering the Portuguese victims of September 9/11 – New York, NY

As the United States marks the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the Portuguese-American community joins the nation in remembering the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives, including five Portuguese citizens and four Portuguese descendants known to have been killed at the World Trade Center in New York City. The nine […]

Community | Portuguese citizen detained by ICE has been deported – Lisbon, Portugal

Hugo Freitas de Sousa, 39, a native of Terceira Island in the Azores, has returned to Lisbon, Portugal, after spending approximately six weeks in U.S. immigration detention in Tacoma, Washington state.  Sousa, who had lived in the United States for about 35 years, emigrated with his parents as a child and held permanent-resident status through […]

Elected: President Dos Santos to be sworn for five term in office – Angola

24 September 2012

President José Eduardo dos Santos is to be sworn President of Angola, for a five-year term in office, Wednesday, following the Angolan Constitutional Court’s announcement that all appeals presented by opposition parties were dismissed as groundless. The official final results of the 31 August polls gave dos Santos and his MPLA party 71.28% of the […]

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Posted in Angola, People, Politics, Spotlight, World

Travel: Tourists from the US are the fastest group visiting – Portugal

21 September 2012

Tourists from the United States are the fastest growing group visiting Portugal, according to the Portuguese national tourist board, Lusa reported. The number of US visitors who came to the country in the first six months of the year was up 7.5% compared to a year earlier, at 135,000, putting the US ninth in terms […]

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Posted in Featured, Madeira, Portugal, Travel, World

Heritage: Portuguese Americans consuming more products from old country

20 September 2012

Portuguese Americans in the US are buying more products from their homeland in a bid to help it overcome its economic crisis, according to the government official responsible for liaising with Portuguese citizens abroad, Lusa reported Thursday. At the end of a four-day visit to the US, Secretary of State for Communities, José Cesário, said he […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, People, Portugal, Spotlight

Profile: José Luís Peixoto has a gift for emotion and sensibility – Essay

18 September 2012

By Richard Simas, Contributor (*) José Luís Peixoto is a conduit for emotion.  Sensations emerge immediately in the opening lines of his fiction, poetry, and non-fiction as they do in his voice the moment he begins reading or talking about writing.  Whether evoking the starkly luminous Alentejo landscape of his youth or joyfully holding his recently […]

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

Labor: Portuguese workers strike back at austerity measures – Update

17 September 2012

Workers at the Portuguese oil refineries in Sines and Matosinhos went out on strike Monday.  About 90% of workers had joined the protests expected to last for the next three days. The protests are against “unacceptable” changes to collective bargaining agreements which include a pay rise for workers of “just” 1%, while the company made a […]

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Posted in Azores, Madeira, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal

Report: Portugal holds the third highest income inequality in the EU – Gini Index

14 September 2012

Portugal has the third highest level of household income inequality in the European Union, behind Latvia and Lithuania, according to a study by the consultancy firm Accenture. Portugal’s richest 20% notch up six times the level of income of the poorest 20%. The Gini Index measuring the discrepancies between the rich and poor comes in […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Portugal, Spotlight

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