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In Portugal, Drug Use Is Treated As A Medical Issue, Not A Crime
Gandelina Damião, 78, is permanently hunched, carrying her sorrow. She lost three children to heroin in the 1990s. A quarter century ago, her cobblestone lane, up a grassy hill from Lisbon's Tagus River, was littered with syringes. She recalls having to search for her teenagers in graffitied stone buildings nearby, where they would shoot up.
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57 dead in focal Portugal rapidly spreading fires, many killed in cars - Top on News
Seething woods fires in focal Portugal killed no less than 57 individuals, a large number of them caught in their autos as flares cleared over a street, in what the PM on Sunday called “the greatest catastrophe of human life that we have known in years.”
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Sunbathers killed as plane makes emergency landing on Portugal beach
A light plane has made an emergency landing on a packed beach in Portugal, killing a 56-year-old man and an eight-year-old girl who were sunbathing, authorities say. Hundreds of sunbathers were on the popular beach at Caparica, 30 kilometres south of Lisbon, and witnesses said some people ran into the sea to avoid the plane.
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How to Win a War on Drugs
Portugal treats addiction as a disease, not a crime.
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Mainland Portugal suffering from severe drought
More than 85 percent of mainland Portugal is suffering from severe drought, the Portuguese Institute of Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) said in a statement on Friday. According to the Palmer Drought Severity Index used by the IPMA, 81 percent of the mainland is experiencing severe drought and 7.4 percent extreme drought. The latter classification is the worst on the scale.
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Deadly Fires Sweep Portugal and Northern Spain
Forest fires burned across Portugal and northern Spain, fanned by strong winds caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia.
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Sebastian Steudtner of Germany Drops in on a Large Wave
Big wave surfer Sebastian Steudtner of Germany drops in on a large wave at Praia do Norte in Nazare, Portugal.
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The rarely, if ever, told story of Japanese sold as slaves by Portuguese traders
The subject of this slim volume is “a series of events that are essential in understanding Japanese history” — events “totally unknown, incredible, and unpleasant to read.”
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Portugal runs on renewable power for the whole of March
Portugal has produced so much renewable electricity that it has outstripped the entire country’s consumption for the month of March. The national grid operator, REN, has announced that renewables generated 4,812 gigawatt hours (GWh) over the month while demand from mainland Portugal reached 4,647 GWh, meaning renewables accounted for 103.6 percent of electricity consumption.
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Portugal reaches 100% renewables, ends fossil fuel subsidies.
Portugal grid averages 103% renewable electricity over month of March; government suspends power supply subsidies in April.
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How Portugal Is Kicking its Heroin Habit
Back in the 1990s, Portugal faced a heroin crisis. Most people knew someone affected by the lethal drug. Just two decades later, the country has one of the lowest drug-related death rates in the world. This dramatic turnaround isn't credited to a hard-line approach, but instead by decriminalizing all drugs.
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Wildfires rage in the Algarve – in pictures
More than 1,000 firefighters are battling blazes for a seventh day in the popular tourist area in Portugal. Extremely high temperatures have been blamed for sparking the wildfires. By Joanna Ruck.
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Study of Portuguese and Spanish explodes as China expands role in Latin America
Thousands more Chinese students are taking up Latin American languages with an eye to improved employability. When Zhang Fangming started learning Portuguese, it was with an eye to becoming a top Chinese diplomat in Brazil. For Sun Jianglin, a Portuguese degree was about landing a job, but also a deeper knowledge of Brazilian music. “Bossa nova!” the 19-year-old undergraduate cooed. “I really like this kind-of-close-to-jazz music!”
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Inside an old pencil factory in Portugal.
(Written in German).
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Hurricane-force winds rip through Portugal
The remnants of Hurricane Leslie leave 300,000 homes without power after striking overnight.
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Vegan Options Are Required by Law in Portugal
In 2016, a petition launched by the Portugal Vegetarian Society (Associação Vegetariana Portuguesa) gathered over 15,000 signatures, in support of making it mandatory for all public institutions and eateries to serve at least one, if not multiple vegan and vegetarian options. Last year, to the delight of many meat-free eaters, this law was finally legalized and implemented by the Portuguese parliament.
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A Lei da Atração - O que é a lei da atração e como usá-la? Pensamento Positivo
Muitas vezes você vai ouvir as pessoas falarem sobre o quão azaradas elas são e como se sentem como se...Como usar a Lei da Atração o que é a Lei da Atração...
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Portugal Just Launched a National Space Agency!
Portugal just became the latest country to establish a national space agency. The country made its plans official on March 18, when its Council of Ministers signed the charter at a formal ceremony at Ponta Delgada, Portugal — the capital city of the Azores archipelago, where the new space agency will be based.
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A Strange New Blend of Rock and Plastic Is Forming on a Portuguese Island
If you go to the beach, you’re likely to see some form of plastic pollution scattered in the waves or sprinkled among the sand grains. A bottle cap fragment here, a transparent piece of packaging there. But researchers have identified a new, and perhaps more permanent type of plastic pollution, one that incorporates itself right into the rocky shoreline: “plasticrust,” a veneer of plastic encrusted right onto wave-licked rocks.
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Scientists Discover a New Compound in Medieval Ink That Was Once Lost to Time
Across the Mediterranean region, in fields and on roadsides, thrives a small plant with silvery leaves. It doesn't look like much, and in many cases it's an annoying weed. But in the Middle Ages, Chrozophora tinctoria was highly prized.
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