Between 20 February and 29 April 2024, the court found, he activated 37 SIM cards on his phone, which were used to create the fake WhatsApp accounts that he used to steal strangers’ identities in the ...

Fellow Portuguese writer Gonçalo M. Tavares also features among the favourites. Tavares, whose O Fim dos Estados Unidos da América (literally, The End of the United States of America) came out last ...

Police authorities have released a statement this week detailing the arrest of a 31-year-old man in Faro on Saturday, 3 October, on suspicion of threatening restaurant workers with a bladed weapon and ...

Every day, shepherd André Gonçalves leads his flock of sheep and goats across hundreds of hectares of the Amendoeira Golf Resort in Silves, in the Algarve, giving the courses a rural trim under the ...

A 61-year-old doctor was arrested on Tuesday, 6 October, on suspicion of raping a 52-year-old female patient during a consultation in Albufeira. Police say the alleged assault happened during a ...

Jet cabin crew across Portugal have begun a five-day strike, with the airline operating a reduced schedule limited to minimum services and flights operated by crews from other European bases. The ...

Despite thousands of kilometres of the churning Atlantic separating them from their home, the Brazilian community of the Algarve and Lower Alentejo were not stopped from voting this past Sunday, 4 ...

Two men, aged 19 and 26, have been arrested by the GNR in Silves on suspicion of fraud, after allegedly collecting a series of strangers’ parcels from CTT, Portugal's postal service, the force said in ...

A 64-year-old German woman died on Saturday afternoon, 3 October, after falling from a clifftop blowhole of about 20 metres while walking between Tonel and Beliche beaches in Sagres, in the ...

Portugal’s Chega party says it is drawing up a new railway plan for the Algarve, proposing changes to the route, journey times and connections to main population centres, also including Faro Airport, ...

The Government has confirmed plans for 44 data centre projects across the country, with the proposed developments representing more than 2.6GW of computing capacity, but it is still refusing to ...

Portugal’s Social Security Institute (ISS) on Tuesday closed an illegal care home in Olhão where 22 elderly people were living in unhealthy conditions, following reports that the facility was ...