The Portuguese government has said it has no plans to pay reparations for the country’s role in transatlantic slavery and colonialism. The previously dormant debate about the country’s role in the slave trade and other colonial-era abuses roared back into life last week after its President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, suggested it should make amends […]
By Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) -Portugal’s government said on Saturday it refuses to initiate any process to pay reparations for atrocities committed during transatlantic slavery and the colonial era, contrary to earlier comments from President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. From the 15th to the 19th century, 6 million Africans were kidnapped and forcibly transported across […]
Across Portugal, a number of photography exhibitions are currently on display that commemorate the ousting of the Estado Novo, the dictatorial, authoritarian and corporatist political regime that had ruled the country since 1933. The work of photographer Alfredo Cunha features prominently in many – he authored a book compiling the most emblematic images of this […]
By Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) – Portuguese oil company Galp Energia said on Sunday it had concluded the first phase of exploration in the Mopane field off the coast of Namibia and estimated it could have at least 10 billion barrels of oil. Galp said it conducted testing operations at the Mopane-1X well in January […]
(Bloomberg) — Portugal’s incoming prime minister picked Joaquim Miranda Sarmento as finance minister, putting him in charge of fiscal policy for a government without a majority that can ensure approval of budgets. Most Read from Bloomberg Miranda Sarmento, 45, is a finance professor in Lisbon and parliamentary leader of the PSD party who helped draft […]
MADRID (Reuters) – Portugal’s centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) was poised to win the most votes in Sunday’s parliamentary election, but well short of a full majority, three exit polls showed, putting the AD in the 27.6%-33% range, just ahead of the incumbent Socialists. The polls published by the three main television channels SIC, RTP and […]
Portugal will hold a snap general election on Sunday that is likely to produce a hung parliament and give more political clout to the far right. Opinion surveys show that neither of the two main contenders – the Socialist Party, on around 28 per cent, or the Democratic Alliance on over 30 per cent – […]
Bobi, previously crowned the world’s oldest dog, has lost his title due to inconclusive evidence of his age, Guinness World Records (GWR) announced Thursday. A Guinness review launched last month concluded it “no longer has the evidence it needs to support Bobi’s claim as the record holder”. Bobi died last October at the age of […]