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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 […]

Opinion | Portuguese diaspora defines national elections – Len Port

21 March 2024

The more than 1.5 million Portuguese registered voters living abroad had the final say in the outcome of March 10 Portugal’s parliamentary early election. The overall tally, concluded this week, showed 28.84% for the center-right Democratic Alliance (PSD/AD) and 28% for the center-left Socialist Party (PS).  The turnout was 59.8%. With the counting finished, President […]

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Posted in Azores, Featured, Madeira, People, Politics, Portugal, Uncategorized

Book | Welcome to Forever | by Nathan Tavares – Editor’s Note

20 March 2024

Fox is a memory editor – one of the best – gifted with the skill to create real life in the digital world. When he wakes up in Field of Reeds Center for Memory Reconstruction with no idea how he got there, the therapists tell him he was a victim in a terrorist bombing by […]

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

Travel Alert | TAP aviation workers announce three-month long strike – Portugal

20 March 2024

The National Union of Civil Aviation Workers (SINTAC), representing TAP Air Portugal ground workers, has issued a three-month strike notice regarding overtime work between March 28th and July 30th. The union claims an agreement for salary increases, of between 6% and 10%, retroactive to July 2023, was not honored by the carrier and that TAP […]

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Posted in Community, Featured, Organizations, Portugal, Travel, World

Nuno Júdice: Most prized Portuguese contemporary poet died – Portugal

18 March 2024

Nuno Júdice, one of the most significant figures in contemporary Portuguese literature, known for his contributions as a poet, essayist and literary critic, died at age 74. Born on April 29, 1949, in Algarve, Portugal, he wrote his first poems when he was eight years old. Influenced by structuralism, he made his literary début in […]

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

António Costa: Portugal’s gift to the United Nations – New York, NY

18 March 2024

The outgoing Prime Minister of Portugal, António Costa, is in New York this Monday to meet with the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and to participate in a significant cultural contribution, the donation of a tapestry titled “Coral Vivo” by Vanessa Barragão, which will be in the permanent exhibition at the UN‘s headquarters. The symbolic gesture […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Featured, Heritage, Interviews, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

Opinion | Radical right surges in Portugal’s most contested election in 50 years – Len Port

11 March 2024

The general early election held on Sunday was Portugal’s most hotly contested legislative election since the Carnation Revolution 50 years ago, a mere six weeks before the country marks the anniversary of the revolution that established democracy. The outcome has been a slim victory for the center-right Democratic Alliance (AD) over the incumbent center-left Socialist […]

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Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World