07 May 2011
New poll figures released Friday show Socialist caretaker Prime Minister José Socrates still leading for the June 5th elections. The Socialists had 36 percent of the votes, the center-right Social-Democratic Party (PSD) 34 percent, and the right-wing Democratic and Social Center (CDS) 10 percent. According to poll figures released on April 21st, outgoing socialist Prime […]
07 May 2011
Former President of Portugal, Mário Soares, one of the principal craftsmen of the adhesion of Portugal to the European Economic Community in 1985, said in a recent interview for EuroNews that he believes the European Union is in crises because the markets are disoriented and the dominance of economics and business is a tragedy for any country. […]
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06 May 2011
Portuguese researcher João Gonçalves is the recipient of the Grand Challenges Exploration Award granted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a research project underway aimed at eliminating HIV-1 viruses from infected organisms. Professor João Gonçalves teaches at the Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade de Lisboa and is a researcher at the Instituto […]
06 May 2011
Hospital services, schools, courts, public offices, trash collection an many other public services have been disrupted Friday, in Portugal, by public workers on a 24 hour general strike organized by the National Federation of Civil Service Unions, the biggest disruption in the country in two decades. Workers are protesting against austerity measures resulting from a US$115 […]
06 May 2011
Brazil’s Supreme Court has ruled Thursday that civil unions between same-sex couples are now allowed. Although the ruling recognizes homosexual partnerships it does not go so far as to make marriage equal in the nation. The court decision was approved 10-0 with one abstention. According to the ruling, from now on lesbian and gay couples […]
06 May 2011
According to the Portuguese Skin Cancer Association, an estimated 10,000 new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed every year in Portugal, more than 1,000 are malignant, and the majority of the cases are caused by over-exposure to the sun. Skin cancer cases have been gradually rising in Portugal as well as in various other European […]
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