Section: Portugal
Portugal “on alert” following global cyberattack
Portugal is “on alert” following a major global cyberattack that infected computers at Russia’s biggest oil company, Ukrainian banks and multinational firms on Tuesday (June 27) with a virus similar to the ransomware that infected more than 300,000 computers last month. Though there are no reports of companies in Portugal being affected,...
Almaraz – 800,000 Portuguese would be affected by nuclear accident
As parliament today waits to question the Foreign Affairs and Environment ministers about Portugal’s climb-down on the threat from Spain’s Almaraz nuclear power station development, a NATO team has reported that 800,000 people in Portugal would be affected if there was an accident on the scale of Chernobyl in the Ukraine. The military...
Portugal’s Eurovision win comes with €50 million price tag
Hundreds of deliriously happy, proud countrymen and women turned out in brilliant technicolour at Lisbon airport yesterday to welcome ‘the returning hero’ from Eurovision in Kiev – a slightly bemused Salvador Sobral. But as Sobral wondered out loud how he was going to “deal with all this”, there was another uncomfortable question in...
Portugal’s Salvador Sobral wins Eurovision Song Contest
Portugal’s Salvador Sobral has won the Eurovision Song Contest and ends 53 years of national embarrassment . The bookies’ favourite sung, ‘Amar Pelos Dois’ at the competition hosted in Ukraine at the International Exhibition Centre in Kyiv. …read more Source: Algarve Daily...
Portugal gets odds of 9/4 in Eurovision final in Kiev on Saturday
Extraordinary though it may seem, Portugal is one of the finalists with a good chance at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev. In a competition “dominated by songs in English”, Salvador Sobral’s rendition of ‘Amar pelos dois’ (Love for Two), written by his sister Luísa has stolen people’s hearts. Tweet …read...
Portugal gets odds of 9/4 Eurovision final in Kiev on Saturday
Extraordinary though it may seen, Portugal is one of the finalists with a good chance at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev. In a competition “dominated by songs in English”, Salvador Sobral’s rendition of ‘Amar pelos dois’ (Love for Two), written by his sister Luísa has stolen people’s hearts. Tweet …read...
Suspects detained in Loulé stadium killing
Police have detained two Ukrainian men suspected of klling a fellow homeless man near the Municipal Stadium in Loulé two weeks ago. In today’s statement, a Judicial Police spokesman said that the suspects, between late afternoon on April 5th and the morning of April 6th, “strangled and jumped on the body of a man, inflicting injuries...
Loulé homeless man’s death “was murder”
An autopsy into the death in a Loulé carpark of a homeless man from the Ukraine has discovered what police suspected all along: he was murdered, very possibly by the two friends who ‘discovered the body’ early on the morning of April 6 (click here). . The men told police at the time that they found their friend alive, and that he told them...
Police arrest two men suspected of killing homeless Ukrainian in Loulé
PJ police have arrested two men suspected of killing a 54-year-old Ukrainian homeless man in a makeshift carpark in Loulé this month. The men, aged 44 and 45, are accused of “strangling the man to death” after an argument and are due to be heard in court. All three men reportedly lived in cars at the carpark and, according to locals, “drank a...
Homeless Ukrainian found dead in Loulé
An investigation is underway in Loulé after a 54-year-old Ukrainian man was found dead in a makeshift carpark . The man, who was apparently homeless and living in a car, was found early this morning with various injuries, particularly to his face. He was allegedly discovered by two friends who maintain he was alive at the time, and told them he...
