The Spanish government has announced that the Spanish NGO Proactiva’s ship ‘Open Arms’ – which is currently holding 107 migrants the south Mediterranean – can make its way to Spain to offload the migrants in Algeciras. On Sunday, Italy’s National Populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini ordered the migrant ferry to vacate Italian waters immediately to go Spain, the Associated Press reports.... 

Last month, May 25th during a speech at the 1st Forum of Economists of Portuguese-Speaking Cities, held in Lisbon, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the Portuguese President said that the “Cape Verdean presidency of the CPLP (the equivalent to the English Commonwealth or the French Francophonie), together with Portugal and other member states, seized as the banner of this presidency the free movement of... 

An international team of researchers, including six scientists from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra (FCTUC), was able to measure for the first time the longest average lifetime of a radioactive isotope recorded by a device of measurement. This extraordinary fact is published (April 25), as the main piece on the cover, in Nature, the most prestigious of all scientific... 

Total births in the European Union’s 28 member states in 2017 has fallen from the year before, while first-time mothers are now almost 30. Figures released by Eurostat on Tuesday revealed that there were 5.075 million babies born in the union in 2017, compared with 5.148 million in 2016 with the total fertility rate standing at 1.59 births per woman — down from 1.60 on the year before and well... 

Football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo arrived in style at a Spanish court in Madrid, wearing a smile and dapper outfit to plead guilty to tax fraud and accept a 23-month suspended prison term and a €18.8 million fine. The Juventus winger looked more like he was waltzing down the red carpet rather than traipsing in to court on a grey Tuesday morning in the Spanish capital, just hours after picking... 

After agreeing on military cooperation in 2017 when 25 bloc members signed a defense pact, a smaller circle of EU members are going to take formal steps to create the European Intervention Initiative. This force is designed for responding to natural disasters, crisis intervention or the evacuation of Europeans. France’s Defense Minister Florence Parly has told the French newspaper Figaro that her... 

More and more inhabitants of Portugal’s Terceira Island are suffering from deadly diseases, especially cancer, at rates far out of sync with the rest of the Azores archipelago. Terceira is no different from the other islands, except in one thing. Russia-based video agency RUPTLY has carried out an exclusive investigation into this matter. Lajes Airbase The Lajes Airbase on Terceira Island has... 

The 28 member states of the European Union (EU) have a total debt burden of €12.5 trillion, which could be even bigger, according to the latest figures from the EU statistics office, Eurostat. Data shows that in the third quarter of 2017 the EU’s debt-to-GDP ratio fell from 82.9 percent to 82.5 percent when compared with the same quarter of the previous year. Greece’s general government-debt-to-GDP... 

On Sunday evening, side-by-side images of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta and his brother Tony next to police sketches of potential suspects in a 2007 kidnapping of a three-year-old girl took over the internet. The resemblance is striking, and Reddit, 4chan, and Twitter rapidly took up the case. https://twitter.com/JaredWyand/status/795493263398539265 Madeleine Beth McCann should... 

On October 1st, a massive 96% of South Brazilians voted to break away from the rest of Brazil. South Brazil is largely White, with Portuguese, Italian, Germany, and other European ancestry. The rest of Brazil is mostly either Black or Mixed. The vote was organized by “The South Is My Country”, a movement which wants South Brazil to secede from Brazil. There are various reasons why South... 

Portugal has won Euro 2016 after stunning host-nation France 1-0 in the final. France went into the game as heavy favorites, but went down to an extra-time goal from Portugal striker Eder. Portugal won it’s first ever European Championship after overcoming hosts France in a thrilling 120 minutes at the Stade de France in Paris, with substitute Eder’s extra-time goal enough to snatch victory... 

Hundreds of people have taken to the streets of Sicily protesting against Trident Juncture 2015, the largest military maneuvers in more than a decade, which NATO claims are designed to adapt the alliance to “emerging security challenges.” The protesters marched through the streets of the city of Marsala, less than 10 miles (16km) from Vincenzo Florio Airport. The airport is a base for the 37th... 

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) is reporting today that the Federation Security Council (FSC) has authorized a “third tier” financial “Armageddon strike” against the West’s entire financial structure in response to the Obama regime led NATO launching today of its biggest single military exercise in more than 13 years involving some 36,000 troops in the Mediterranean Sea and simulating a war... 

NATO has started its biggest exercise since 2002 with 36,000 international troops from 30 states, including non-NATO nations, participating in the drills which are taking place at sea, in the air and across the territory of three European states. The alliance has kicked off its massive “Trident Juncture 2015” exercises which will last until November 16. Along with the NATO member states, seven... 

Researcher at the University of Coimbra in Portugal is awarded “Young Scientist Award” for the invention that is shaking the scientific community to its roots: a cell phone that can detect human emotions. This exciting invention is at the prototype stage but has already aroused interest far and wide. The new invention won David Nunes, the researcher, an international award. And if the...