Donald Trump’s ancestral roots have been tracked to a village in Germany.
Kallstadt, a village of some 1,200 souls, is tucked among vineyard-clad hills and its claim to fame has been the stuffed pork belly speciality it produces. It lies in the southwestern state of Rhineland-Palatinate and is west of Mannheim.
The only known westerner working for North Korea has been arrested in Spain on Tuesday on suspicion of trafficking weapons.
Alejandro Cao de Benós was detained by police in Tarragona, Catalonia.
A gang of property rental scammers based in Oporto have been convicted in Portimão court and given sentences of between 2 years 10 months and 12 years.
The two couples also must pay damages to the injured parties in a scam that involved placing ads on websites displaying rental properties, properties that did not exist or were not for rent, and taking deposits from unsuspecting holidaymakers.
There seems to be no sector of public life in Portugal that is immune from the crime of corruption as Faro’s Judicial Police have indicted the president of the parish council of Estoi and a local builder for colluding to rip-off the local ratepayers.
The case is not proven but involves a specimin case of rigging a building arranged by the parish council president (PSD) so that one builder got the job - at a suitably inflated price.
The new road over the bridge to Faro Island should be completed next week, according to the much relieved Faro mayor Rogério Bacalhau.
The mayor said in an interview with Postal, that "according to the contract, today and tomorrow they will place the second half of the pipes to the north of the bridge and between Thursday and Friday the ones to the south."
Portugal’s Ministry for Internal Affairs wants French and British police to send officers to tourist hot-spots in the Algarve this summer.
The Secretary of State for Internal Affairs, Jorge Gomes, visited the Algarve to sign a new piece of paper kicking off a Regional Plan for Road Safety with the mayors and Road Safety Authority, and took the opportunity to announce that "we are negotiating with France in order to have French police here in the summer.”
The ‘miracle baby’ born in Lisbon to a brain-dead mother is out of intensive care and has a name, Lourenço Salvador.
Sandra Pedro, the mother he will never know, has been allowed to die and has been buried by her family, leaving Lourenço’s future in the hands of his father and grandparents. Sandra had been diagnosed with kidney cancer and suffered a catastrophic drop in blood pressure leading to a brain haemorrhage.
The chairman of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) considers it quite ‘normal’ for Portugal’s government to inject €4 billion of taxpayers’ money into the failing state bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos.
A capital injection of public funds, when this is necessary, is considered normal "in Portugal, in Germany or in any other case," according to Brussels.
