Major-General Umaro Sissoco Embaló confirmed this Sunday that he will take office as President of Guinea-Bissau next Thursday, and that the ceremony will be symbolic “to avoid costs to the state coffers”. Moments after arriving at Osvaldo Vieira international airport, in Bissau, from Dakar, capital of Senegal, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, who, according to the National … Read more
Already sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering three people, Nicholas Sutton, 58, was executed in a jail in the southeast state of Tennessee, despite requests for clemency from the daughter of one of the victims, from prison guards and even requests for suspension. of enforcement that lawyers handed over to the Supreme Court. Nicholas Sutton, … Read more
It is estimated that about 900,000 pangolins (an endangered mammal) have been sold illegally in the past two decades in Southeast Asia, a non-governmental organization (NGO) said today. “Not a day goes by without wild animals being captured in Southeast Asia and the numbers are often impressive,” said Kanitha Krishnasamy, director of the Traffic organization … Read more
The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, made harsh criticisms of the racist insults that Marega was subjected in the Vitória de Guimarães field and warned that the Portuguese Constitution is very clear in relation to this type of acts. «The Constitution of the Portuguese Republic is very clear in condemning racism, as … Read more
The Syrian regime said on Sunday it had regained control of the city of Aleppo, despite continuing the offensive against the ‘jihadist’ movement in the northwest of the country, according to international organizations and state media. Aleppo is the second largest city in Syria and the capital of a region with its name that had … Read more
Cabo Verde Airlines (CVA) announced the indefinite suspension, from March 1, of the route between the island of Sal and Salvador da Bahia, in Brazil, justified restructuring with new destinations. In a statement sent to Lusa, the Cape Verdean company, privatized in March 2019 and which succeeded the state-owned Transportes Aéreos de Cabo Verde (TACV), … Read more
Pope Francis thanked former President of Brazil, Luís Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva, for visiting the Vatican and was pleased to be able to see him “walking down the street” after leaving prison in November. «I thank him for the gesture of coming, I thank him very much, and I am glad to be able to … Read more
A cruise with more than 2,000 people on board that was prevented from entering several Asian countries due to the risk of a possible spread of the new coronavirus, called Covid-19, docked in Cambodia today. The Holland America Line cruise ship was allowed to dock at the port of Sihanoukville after Thailand denied landing on … Read more
US President Donald Trump this Monday made an (unusual) prediction about the end of the coronavirus outbreak, pointing to the month of April. «Heat usually kills this type of virus. It will disappear in April ”, he said initially, reiterating, hours later, on the social network Twitter, a small modification to the initial declaration. «In … Read more
British Airways broke this Sunday the fastest subsonic transatlantic flight record ever, which corresponds to a speed lower than that of sound. As the North American television station CNN advances, the Boeing 747 left New York and arrived in London 4.56 hours later. A trip that normally lasts 6.13 hours. The flight, which took off … Read more