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@CatarinaDemony
Catarina Demony
2 years
Portuguese artist Bordalo II turns the spotlight on child sex abuse committed by members of the 🇵🇹 Catholic Church
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Portuguese street artist, Bordalo II, on the housing crisis:
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This is everything. João Pedro came to a far-right protest in Lisbon to celebrate #PRIDE2020 . He is alone. But told me it was important to be here.
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Papa Francisco diz que o ensino superior continua a ser um privilégio de poucos e que seria um “desperdício pensá-lo apenas para perpetuar o atual sistema elitista e desigual do mundo”. Discurso na Universidade Católica. Go figure.
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Paula Rego, a Portuguese ground-breaking artist who challenged gender stereotypes and denounced abuses of power in her paintings, has died aged 87.
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2 years
Portugal wakes up with no active wildfires for the first time in about two weeks.
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Thousands protest in 🇵🇹 over housing crisis. 📸 REUTERS/Pedro Nunes
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Stunning pictures of the 50th anniversary celebrations of Portugal's Carnation Revolution by Reuters photojournalist Pedro Nunes 😍 1/2
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1 year
"Large parts of Spain and Portugal" but you cut Portugal off the map. Cool.
@WMO
World Meteorological Organization
1 year
Large parts of Spain and Portugal are gripped by heat and drought. Cordoba airport set a new April temperature record for mainland Spain of 38.8°C on Thursday, says @AEMET_Esp #StateofClimate #ClimateChange
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Portugal should file a lawsuit against this London bakery.
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3 years
Trying to get to a restaurant to file a story from a tiny village in northern Portugal is not as easy as it seems.
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2 years
Portugal's President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa holds a child on the earthquake-hit Azorean island of Sao Jorge. 📸REUTERS/Pedro Nunes
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1 year
When you bring your Portuguese dad to a Michael Bublé concert but Sporting is playing…
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3 years
Obrigada pela notícia de última hora, TVI.
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4 years
Portugal's National Republican Guard @GNRepublicana delivered flowers to an elderly woman living in an isolated area in the country's north. It was her 87th birthday ❤️
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Portugal’s far-right party Chega organised a presser inside a tiny space in a hotel basement with no windows...during a pandemic. Journalists walked out.
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4 years
Portugal PM Costa back at it again. Asked by a reporter if he went too far with comments about Dutch Finance Minister, Costa replied: "Are you kidding me? Either the EU does what it has to do or it will end. Being in the EU is not living in isolation, it is sharing with others."
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Ten of my favourite Reuters 📸 of Portugal's Carnation Revolution celebrations. This one was taken in 1997.
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2 years
Portugal has suspended the issuance of golden visas to Russian citizens, Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva told @cnnportugal
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Lisbon mayor Moedas cancelled - at the last minute - his attendance at a Web Summit talk I was asked to moderate. We were meant to discuss an important topic: urban mobility. Not clear why he cancelled but it would have been great to hear his thoughts on such a crucial issue.
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Lisboa 🤝 falta de acessibilidade
@PSP_Portugal
PSP - Polícia de Segurança Pública
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Today marks 45 years since a practically bloodless revolution brought Portugal’s dictatorship to an end. At a time far-right groups continue to emerge in Europe, it’s more important than ever for older and younger generations to celebrate this day. 25 de Abril, sempre.
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Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa liga a toda a gente, desde à Cristina Ferreira ao enfermeiro que tratou de Boris Johnson, mas ainda não ligou à família do cidadão ucraniano espancado até à morte nas instalações do SEF
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Portugal, the country where the president faints mid-event, is taken to hospital and speaks to reporters as soon as he is discharged.
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Catarina Demony
2 years
A Mike Pence fly moment just happened in Portugal 👀
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The weather is Lisbon is matching the political climate.
@BilbiaOfissial
Bilbia mt engarsada
2 months
Tá a chover em Lisboa, dá para ver?
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2 years
Preliminary results show @LulaOficial won in Lisbon, the city with the largest number of voters outside 🇧🇷, by a big margin
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Huge smoke cloud over the Fatima sanctuary due to a wildfire in the district of Castelo Branco. About 750 on the ground trying to put out the blaze.
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🇺🇦 Before the war started, 27,200 Ukrainians lived in Portugal, according to official data. That number has increased to 45,500 as more refugees flee due to Moscow's invasion. Ukrainians now make up 🇵🇹's second largest foreign community.
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Adeptos do Benfica a atacarem jornalistas à saída do Estádio da Luz. Confrontos. Vandalismo. O pior do futebol, seja qual for a equipa.
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Oi?
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Catarina Demony
5 years
This photo shows hundreds of people queuing to vote for the very first time in 1975 after a revolution ended Portugal's four-decade-long fascist dictatorship. The voter turnout dropped nearly 50 percent since this photo was taken. It makes you think. #Legislativas2019
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Catarina Demony
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Portuguese President Rebelo de Sousa is under fire over remarks he has made in the last week: 1) told a young woman she might catch a cold because of her cleavage 2) asked a woman if a chair was strong enough to hold her weight He is being accused of sexism and body shaming.
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Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said the more than 400 cases of child sexual abuse by members of the Catholic Church reported by commission @darvozsilencio “doesn’t seem to be particularly high”. Such a shameful remark.
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No aeroporto de Lisboa, uma jornalista pergunta a um refugiado ucraniano acabado de chegar a Portugal: "Não foi por vontade que veio para Portugal?" E um pingo de noção, não há?
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Catarina Demony
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Cristiano Ronaldo with Jordan Peterson, the guy who said feminists have “an unconscious wish for brutal male domination”
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Catarina Demony
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Things we didn’t miss: Huge cruise ships docked in the city centre.
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Portugal to raise minimum wage to 705 euros/month in 2022 - remains the lowest in Western Europe.
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72% of young people in Portugal get paid a salary of less than 950 euros/month and 30% say they will leave the country in search of better opportunities...yet another example of why the Portuguese 'economic miracle' wasn't much of a miracle after all.
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This Lisbon cafe has an exclusive queue for WYD pilgrims. Praying for an exclusive queue for “hangry” journos.
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Um jornal que associa o aumento do número de imigrantes em Portugal a “alarme” é um jornal que está a contribuir para uma narrativa tóxica sobre a migração e faz parte do problema, não da solução.
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Catarina Demony
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Goodbye handshake, hello namaste!
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When you have to cover the Portuguese election but your team is playing.
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Catarina Demony
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Lagos, a town in southern Portugal, was Europe’s first African slave market. For centuries, the town hid its dark past. But this tiny museum is a step in the right direction. More Portuguese cities should follow in the footsteps.
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Catarina Demony
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Ireland's finance minister tells Portuguese counterpart Medina that he thoroughly enjoyed his last trip to Lisbon where he met the widow of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. Pessoa died in 1935 and never got married. 😅😅😅
@dvalente
Duarte Valente
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Quem disse que nunca sai nenhuma informação interessante das reuniões do #Eurogroup ?
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Catarina Demony
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In Portugal, hundreds of people are posting pictures of themselves wearing 💋red lipstick💋 after the far-right presidential candidate insulted female candidate @mmatias_ for using it. Here's Spanish journalist and writer Pilar del Rio supporting the #VermelhoemBelem movement:
@delRioPilar
Pilar del Río
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#VermelhoEmBelem : mujeres y hombres nos pintamos los labios en señal de libertad. Frente a la extrema derecha q ha tratado de descalificar a ⁦ @mmatias_ ⁩ por ser mujer, personas de distintos partidos nos pintamos los labios y anunciamos q el color rojo es hermoso y avanza🌹
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Landing in Lisbon never gets old.
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No deaths have been reported in Portugal due to COVID-19 for the second time this week
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Thousands of people - many who live in Lisbon’s outskirts - take to Lisbon streets in a protest for a “fair life” as high inflation makes it even tougher for people to make ends meet in one of Western Europe’s poorest nations.
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Catarina Demony
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This is the solution we journalists came up with to keep social distancing outside. A masterpiece.
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Climate protesters in Lisbon stormed a building where Portugal's Economy Minister Antonio Costa e Silva, who previously worked in the oil industry, was speaking at a private event. 📸REUTERS/Pedro Nunes
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Catarina Demony
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Breaking news: I popped the question and he said YES (though I think he only accepted to marry me to keep the England/Portugal shirts I bought for the occasion)
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Catarina Demony
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Where can I report this crime against Portuguese food?
@GordonRamsay
Gordon Ramsay
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I'm in #Portugal this week cooking up what might be one of the best Pork Sandwiches anywhere in the world.... #Bifana ! Watch the cheesy and delicious full episode now:
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Portugal’s SIC television just used an obviously fake front page of the NYT during prime time. A bit embarrassing, to say the least.
@PedroGuerreiroX
Pedro Guerreiro
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Uhm, guys, a SIC acaba de usar uma página falsa do New York Times numa notícia sobre a Festa do Avante.
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Portugal reported close to 9,000 new COVID-19 cases, the highest daily figure since early February. Deaths and hospitalisations remain far below levels seen during that period. There are now 909 people with COVID-19 in hospital compared to 6,869 patients on Feb. 1.
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Standing next to a framed picture of former Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, a prisoner works on a wooden confessional to be installed at a Lisbon park during Pope Francis' visit this summer📸 REUTERS/Pedro Nunes.
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Catarina Demony
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Police said today they wanted to ensure all fans follow COVID-19 rules, including wearing a mask and maintaining social distancing. This is Porto’s Ribeira area right now. Draw your own conclusions.
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Catarina Demony
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Young climate protesters stormed into the venue in Lisbon where Portugal’s economy minister was speaking
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Catarina Demony
3 years
It is 47 years since an almost bloodless revolution finally led Portugal to democracy, ending the fascist regime put in place by dictator Antonio Oliveira Salazar.
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Catarina Demony
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Today my mum visited Angola’s slavery museum for the first time. This building was once owned by our ancestors and used to forcibly baptise enslaved Africans before they were shipped to Brazil. They were cuffed, tortured, given Portuguese names and a new religion.
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Velas, São Jorge.
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Students are occupying Lisbon high school António Arroios to protest climate inaction 👇
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3 years
My boyfriend is learning Portuguese and has his priorities straight 👇🏼
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A jornada também tem disto ❤️
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Merry Christmas from this little piece of paradise we’re lucky to call home 🇵🇹
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Spotted in Lisbon: A sign showing the pope holding an ad for a villa available to rent during the global gathering of young Catholics taking place in 🇵🇹 this week. The price? 7,000 euros. It reads: “A day for the youth, a year of speculation.” #HousingCrisis
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Afro-Brazilian pilgrims who crossed the Atlantic for World Youth Day in Lisbon have filed a complaint w/ Portuguese police after allegedly experiencing at least three racist incidents. On one occasion, a group of white pilgrims made monkey noises towards them, the group said.
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Catarina Demony
4 years
Across Portugal students stuck home due to the pandemic are watching classes on public broadcaster @rtppt . This video of an English class is the best thing I’ve seen all week.
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Genral Urko
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Catarina Demony
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Three years at Reuters. Three years well spent on one of Lisbon’s best office balconies.
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Não quer um país sem memória mas onde está presente na cidade a memória do tráfico transatlântico? A memória da brutalidade do passado colonial? A memória da presença africana? A memória das origens da revolução de Abril? Não está. A isto chama-se memória seletiva.
@Moedas
Carlos Moedas
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Não quero um país sem memória, porque um país sem memória é um país sem futuro. Não nos esquecemos do 25 de Novembro. Não nos esquecemos dos heróis comandos que deram a vida pela democracia. Em Lisboa celebramos novembro, precisamente porque somos democratas. Viva o 25 de
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Catarina Demony
4 years
This is what happens in Lisbon when it occasionally rains. Every single time.
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@CatarinaDemony
Catarina Demony
2 years
Fires are now burning all across Portugal, north to south. In the Algarve, a 🔥 has reached the resort of Quinta do Lago. In Palmela, near Lisbon, there’s a 🔥 near the town center. In Leiria, where I am, firefighters are struggling to put out flames.
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2 years
Not necessarily something to be proud of.
@Forbes
Forbes
2 years
The Best Golden Passports And Visas Programs: Malta And Portugal Top The 2022 List
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Catarina Demony
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Three years ago today Portuguese actor Bruno Candé, of Guinean origin, was shot several times by a white man in his eighties - Evaristo Marinho - at Avenida de Moscavide, near Lisbon. Marinho was convicted of racially motivated murder.
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Três jornalistas brasileiras. Três profissionais incríveis. Três mulheres a dar show nos três principais canais de televisão nacionais. @carolineribeiro @giumiranda @amandalimajor
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Hello Porto, you beaut ❤️
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PM Costa says Ukrainian citizens with family and friends in Portugal are welcome there. Embassies and consulates have been told to issue visas.
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Dozens gathered by the river Tagus in Lisbon to celebrate African culture and pay tribute to the nearly 6 million people enslaved by Portugal during the transatlantic slave trade
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Catarina Demony
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I would be interested to know why Portugal did not sign this statement condemning Hungary's anti-LGBT law👇
@JenniferMerode
Jennifer Rankin
3 years
Thirteen EU member states have signed a statement condemning Hungary's anti LGBT law, as "a flagrant form of discrimination" violating free speech. Led by Belgium, signed by France + Germany, and significantly three MS of the 2004 intake, the Baltics.
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Thousands of people took to the streets of Lisbon to give animals a voice as the 🇵🇹 constitutional court ponders if mistreating pets should be classed as a crime.
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He has been walking around for nearly 30 minutes, pointing at random buildings, saying hi to people and looking at shop windows 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Catarina Demony
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Portuguese president leaves his official residence to “get some fresh air” - which usually means he wants to talk to the media - but this time he has refused to answer reporters’ questions about the ongoing political situation. He is expected to address the nation on Thursday.
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Portugal's foreign minister Joao Gomes Cravinho tells RTP he believes, "without a doubt", that "Bolsonaro has responsibility". "His voice is heard by these anti-democratic demonstrators," he adds.
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📸 Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was photographed queuing to pay for his groceries at a supermarket. He is wearing a face mask, shorts and trainers.
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Catarina Demony
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Always look on the bright side.
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This afternoon, the Afghan girls’ soccer squad played at a training ground in the outskirts of Lisbon. It was the very first time they played together since they were forced to leave their home country ⚽️
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@CatarinaDemony
Catarina Demony
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A press conference with no questions is not a press conference.
@MehreenKhn
Mehreen Khan
2 years
EU journalists walking out of a Macron - Metsola press conference which will take no questions from the media
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Catarina Demony
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Há nove anos aconteceu isto.
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Catarina Demony
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GoFundMe has taken down a page accepting donations to help Portugal's most prominent anti-racism activist Mamadou Ba pay legal costs after a court found him guilty of defaming a neo-Nazi. The funds raised were to be used to appeal the decision and take it to the ECHR if needed.
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Catarina Demony
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It’s called journalism, Josh.
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Catarina Demony
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This @Reuters picture of two medical workers hugging outside a Spanish hospital breaks my heart. But it makes me think how we can only get through this crisis together. Sometimes a hug speaks louder than words. 📷REUTERS/Susana Vera
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Catarina Demony
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Cuidado com as headlines. São 20% dos casos já confirmados, não 20% dos médicos.
@Lusa_noticias
Agência Lusa
4 years
Ordem alerta que há 20% de médicos infetados com Covid-19 -
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Catarina Demony
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“Seria uma hipocrisia eu ir para o meu Twitter ou para o meu Instagram escrever ´Black Lives Matter` e não contar esta história.” Leiam aqui 👇🏼 a minha conversa com a jornalista Sandra Moutinho da agência @Lusa_noticias :
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Portugal’s government is expected to announce several measures to tackle the housing crisis, including support for young people and families struggling to pay rent. The controversial golden visa scheme is also expected to be scrapped.
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“Portugal, she adds, has understandably become addicted to overseas money and investment. She compares it to a country rich in gold that is prepared to let its water be polluted and its environment be destroyed in the pursuit of growth.” @swajones
@guardian
The Guardian
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Portugal’s bid to attract foreign money backfires as rental market goes ‘crazy’
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