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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 1976-2026 | Azoreans mark 50 years of Autonomy with solemn ceremony
 

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 […]

1976-2026 | Azoreans mark 50 years of Autonomy with solemn ceremony – Horta, Faial

The Autonomous Region of the Azores marked a historic milestone with a Solemn Session on Friday, September 4, at the inaugural session of the Regional Assembly in Horta, Faial, honoring the 50th anniversary of the establishment of self-government. The Regional Assembly’s first solemn session took place exactly 50 years ago in Horta and was presided […]

Community | Azores Government creates office dedicated to the diaspora youth – Fall River, MA

24 August 2024

The Regional Secretary for Parliamentary Affairs and Communities, Paulo Estevão, announced that the Government of the Azores is making a historic commitment to recognizing and valuing the Azorean diaspora. Speaking at a meeting with representatives of the Azorean communities in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, held at the House of the Azores of New England, in […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, World

Calamity: Devastating wildfires threaten world treasure – Madeira Island

23 August 2024

The wildfires that erupted in Madeira on August 14, 2024, initially began in the mountainous region of Ribeira Brava. Still active, the fires have since spread to neighboring areas, including Câmara de Lobos and Ponta do Sol, and beyond.  Now entering their tenth day, the wildfires have scorched over 5,000 hectares of land and temporarily […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Madeira, Portugal, World

Great Feast | The Holy Ghost Festival of New England returns to Kennedy Park – Fall River, MA

15 August 2024

The Great Feast of The Holy Ghost of New England will be held in Kennedy Park in Fall River, Massachusetts, from August 21 to 25, attracting more than 100,000 participants from across the country, Canada and abroad. Established in Fall River in 1986, and held every year on the last weekend of August, the festival […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Entertainment, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, World

Opinion | Sizzling heat and drought in southern Portugal – Len Port

07 August 2024

Reservoir levels in southern Portugal have fallen again, coinciding with global temperatures reaching record highs. Official meteorological statistics show that at the end of June, the south of Portugal was suffering extreme drought, while the intensity was more moderate in the cities of Beja and Evora in the Alentejo, as well as part of the […]

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Posted in Featured, Portugal, Spotlight, World

Book | Fernando Pessoa: Imagination and the Self | Jonardon Ganeri | Editor’s Note

06 August 2024

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is the quintessential philosophical outsider. Affiliated to no institution, and associated with no traditional school, in his prose fiction and poetry, Pessoa invented a new philosophy of the human subject, arguing that imagination is key to human flourishing and human self-enrichment. Each of us, he claimed, can use our powers of imagination […]

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Book | Portugal in the 21st Century | Nuno Monteiro (Editor et al) | Editor’s Note

05 August 2024

Portugal in the 21st Century provides a thorough yet accessible picture of contemporary Portugal in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. It examines and elucidates Portugal’s recent trajectory, its current position, and the main challenges it faces through an examination of the principal dimensions of cultural, economic, political, and social development in the […]

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