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… We were reporting on how the Portuguese from the flotilla heading to Gaza were detained by Israel, amidst live social media broadcasts and cell phones at sea , as Marina Ferreira describes. It was just after 6:00 PM this Wednesday when they received the first signs that they were about to be intercepted by Israeli authorities. Mariana Mortágua, Sofia Aparício, and Miguel Duarte are expected to arrive at an Israeli port this morning. The Portuguese government promises assistance and warns that the Jewish celebration of Yom Kippur could delay the repatriation. More than 20 boats remain on their way to Gaza , and the night was marked by protests in several European cities. Follow all the updates on our liveblog . |
Still on the subject of the war in the Middle East, Tony Blair emerges as a central figure in Donald Trump's plan to achieve peace between Israel and Hamas. How did the former British prime minister get to this point? Journalist Madalena Moreira is the guest on the "History of the Day" podcast. |
Nearly a month after the Elevador da Glória accident , which killed 16 people on September 3, Fidelidade, Carris' insurer, has still not been able to contact four of the 22 identified injured . Two Spaniards, one Frenchman, and one Portuguese national are still missing. And two injured people have yet to be identified. Ana Sanlez provides the summary. |
The disaster near Restaurados forced a follow-up meeting at the wheel . That afternoon, for about an hour, Rita Tavares had finished her Lisbon tour with Alexandra Leitão. The return trip, therefore, merited an extra time to discuss exclusively a topic that ended up becoming central to the campaign. "I will never ask Moedas to resign 15 days before the elections," the candidate from the PS/BE/LIVRE/PAN coalition assured, in yet another Local Elections Carpool. |
With the latest poll placing him slightly ahead of Manuel Pizarro , Pedro Duarte presented his program on Avenida dos Aliados and didn't hesitate to embellish. The Social Democratic candidate called for a useful vote against the "old PS ," insisted on the "deterioration of the climate of insecurity," and promised to end homelessness and inspect souvenir shops. |
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Have a good Thursday. |
| | | | | | | | |  | | Podcast Plus | | Four candidates advance to the 1986 presidential elections: one believes he has no chance, another has refused to advance, the third goes against his own allies, and the last appears as a surprise. | |
|  | | Radio Observer | | Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister, is a central figure in Donald Trump's plan to achieve peace between Israel and Hamas. How did he get here? Journalist Madalena Moreira is the guest. | |
|  | | Policy | | In "Realpolitik," Sérgio Sousa Pinto and Miguel Pinheiro discuss the divisions caused by the 25th of November, the new law on foreigners, and what housing measures say about us. | |
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|  | | Radio Observer | | Trump has negotiated 20 points of a peace plan that has already been agreed upon by several Arab countries. Hamas has not yet accepted it, but it is under enormous pressure. Has the US president achieved the impossible? | |
|  | | Culture | | Episode celebrating Mariana Lobo Vaz's 27th birthday. | |
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|  | | Radio Observer | | Healthcare is in the usual chaos, but are we already reaching a stage of indifference between public and private healthcare? And then there's the judge who evades his own sentence. | |
|  | | Lifestyle | | From binge eating to conscious choice: Catarina Gorgulho shares habits, routines and life between discipline, motherhood and entrepreneurship. | |
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|  | | Banality is refreshing. Superficiality is only dangerous when it's mistaken for a Sunday night lifestyle. |
|  | | Participatory Budgets and everything else that advertising invents are gimmicks that leaders pull out of the basket to illustrate the idea of democratic participation. Gimmicks of no importance whatsoever. |
|  | | Hence, fear reigns as the supreme feeling and constitutes the true basis of public and private causes, invariably measured as different forms of its antidote — “security.” |
| |  | | Celebrities | | Pedro Leitão died early Wednesday morning at the age of 59 from lung cancer. On social media, friends and former colleagues mourned the death of the former PR and social media figure. | |
|  | | Taylor Swift | | Produced in Europe during the Eras Tour, "The Life of a Showgirl" will be released this Friday and has already broken records on Spotify. It's Swift's 12th album and her first since recovering the masters. | |
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|  | | Cinema | | "Lumière! The Adventure Continues", by Thierry Frémaux, "Lavagante", by Mário Barroso, based on the work of José Cardoso Pires, and "Honey Don't!", by Ethan Coen, are Eurico de Barros' choices of the week. | |
|  | | Cinema | | The second in a "trilogy of B-grade lesbian crime films," Ethan Coen's 'Honey Don't!,' which he also wrote with his wife, Tricia Cooke, is heartbreaking. Eurico de Barros gives it one star. | |
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