Volunteers collect 19 tons of marine litter off the Portuguese Coast

LUSA. About 19 tons of marine litter were collected during the week commemorating the International Coastal Cleaning Day, which featured more than 170 cleaning actions. In a statement, the Oceano Azul Foundation says that the 70 cleaning actions, which involved 1250 people, cleaned up 130 km of Portuguese co...

UK PM likely to win MPs’ vote on Brexit

London. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to win a parliamentary vote on laws which give him the power to break the Withdrawal Agreement struck with the European Union last year. Johnson’s Internal Market Bill aims to ensure Britain’s four nations can trade freely with each other after Brexit. M...

Covid 19 in Portugal : 13 dead in just one day.

Lisbon. In the last 24 hours, Portugal registered 13 more deaths and 552 new cases due to coronavirus. Covid-19 has so far caused 1,912 deaths and infected 68,577 people. So far 45,596 people have recovered from the disease, 192 more than this Saturday. There are another 14 people hospitalized this Sunday...

UK imposes 14 days quarantine on travelers from Portugal

Lisbon. The United Kingdom has put Portugal back on the list of unsafe countries that require travelers to comply with a 14-day quarantine. The United Kingdom removed Portugal from the list of safe countries for covid-19 and now requires a 14-day quarantine for passengers coming from mainland Portugal. T...

Arrested and fined for eating cake on the street

Man detained by the Paris police for having disregarded the mandatory use of a protective mask on the streets of the French capital. A man was arrested by the police and taken to a Paris police station. Your crime? Have dared to eat a cake on the street! "I still had the paper napkin in my hand to throw it in...

SEF detains two foreigners at Lisbon airport with false documentation

- LUSA. Two foreign citizens were arrested at Lisbon Airport for using fraudulent documents, the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) announced this Friday. According to a note from the SEF sent to the newsrooms, one of the passengers, aged 22, was intercepted while preparing to embark for Düsseldorf, German...