Lisbon, 11 Mar 2023 (Lusa) – The Fado Museum, in Lisbon, inaugurates next Tuesday the exhibition “Celeste”, a tribute to the fado singer Celesta Rodrigues (1923-2018), who would turn 100 years old on this date. Speaking to Lusa news agency, the exhibition curator, filmmaker Diogo Varela Silva, her grandson, said…
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Producer Bruno Caetano is looking for financing to publicize the film “Ice Merchants”, by João Gonzalez, in the United States, “in a fight against giants” in the weeks before the Oscar ceremony, he told Lusa news agency. “We are trying to find support from Portuguese institutions, from the Portuguese State,…
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New York, United States, Feb 6, 2023 (Lusa) – The Portuguese communities in North America today criticized the “drastic increase” in airfares charged by Azorean airline SATA, denouncing it as an “abusive measure” and an “opportunistic abuse of the public service monopoly.In a note of repudiation to which Lusa had…
Los Angeles, United States, Jan 27, 2023 (Lusa) – The Portuguese-origin community in Florida, one of the states that is growing most in attracting Portuguese-Americans, “has a lot of youth now,” said the Portuguese emigrant and director of Radio Portugal Florida, in a session on the diaspora in the United…
Brussels, 28 Mar 2022 (Lusa) – The government today highlighted the situation “apparently more stabilized” on the island of São Jorge, in the Azores, where seismic activity is above normal, but assured that, if necessary, there is a plan to quickly mobilize aid. “There is a very expressive window in…
Lisbon, 27 Feb 2022 (Lusa) – Soccer player Roman Yaremchuk today thanked the applause of the spectators of the match between Benfica and Vitoria de Guimarães, assuring that the Ukrainian people will not forget the support shown at Estádio da Luz, in Lisbon. “Dear Benfica fans, teammates, staff, management, and…
Lisbon, 26 fev 2022 (Lusa) – The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, said today that “everything that is legitimate to do” regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine “the international community will do”, stressing that there are measures that take time to apply, such as sanctions. Marcelo Rebelo…
Celorico da Beira, Guarda, Feb 23 (Lusa) – The owner of a flock of sheep, Serra da Estrela breed, told Lusa news agency today that the drought is having consequences for the sector and estimates that “the coming times will be difficult. Júlio Ambrósio, 46, resident in the municipality of…
Lisbon, 24 Feb 2022 (Lusa) – The Minister of Foreign Affairs closed today’s parliamentary debate on the Russian military attack on Ukraine, warning that the European Union can no longer avoid the problem of its excessive energy dependence on Russia. In the last intervention of the debate of the Permanent…
United Nations, Feb 22, 2022 (Lusa) – The principles of the “United Nations Charter are not an ‘à la carte menu'” and Russia must “apply them all” in relation to Ukraine, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said today, criticizing the Kremlin’s position. “They [the principles of the Charter] cannot be applied…
Los Angeles, 16 Feb 2022 (Lusa) – The Lusodescendant poets Millicent Borges Accardi and Frank X. Gaspar hosted a reading and discussion session organized by the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where the journey of Luso-American literature towards the ‘mainstream’ was debated. “I question how difficult it seems to be for…
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Feb 17, 2022 (Lusa) – The fire on the merchant ship “Felicity Ace,” whose 22 crew members were safely rescued Wednesday, “has progressed” and “is consuming various sectors” of the ship that “remains stable,” off Faial, Azores, the maritime authority said today. “From yesterday to today, the…
Former miner in Jales, César Almeida shared objects and memories to help create the interpretive center that opens its doors on Saturday, in Vila Pouca de Aguiar, and honors the last exploration of gold in Portugal. There, visitors will be able to descend into a mining tunnel, a 110-meter circular…
Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Feb 16, 2022 (Lusa) – Terceira Island, in the Azores, will have at least six direct flights abroad in the IATA summer, five of which to North America, said today the Vice-President of the Regional Government, Artur Lima to Lusa. “They are six different destinations. Never…
The National Elections Commission (CNE) decided today that the re-run of the in-person voting in the European Parliament will take place on March 12 and 13, and that postal votes will be considered if received by March 23. This schedule was announced by Vera Penedo, of the CNE, during a…