Angola dismantles trafficking network linked to Portugal and Brazil
Lusa - Angola - 07/12/2020
The Angolan authorities dismantled an international drug trafficking network, which included a Portuguese, following a recent seizure of cocaine from Brazil at Luanda’s international airport.
Speaking to Angola Public Television (TPA), the director of the…
Mysterious disease is sending hundreds to hospital in India
Diário de Notícias - Portugal - 07/12/2020
Although India is the second country in the world with the most cases of covid-19, none of these patients tested positive for the new coronavirus. Doctors investigate the origin of the disease.
Nausea, seizures and fainting are some of the symptoms of a strange illness…
Puurs, “the village that will save the world”
Jornal de Notícias - Portugal - 07/12/2020
The British call it “the village that will save the world”. It is from Puurs, a Belgian village half an hour from Brussels to Antwerp, that more than 1 billion vaccines will be delivered to covid-19, the first million to the United Kingdom, where they are already being…
Cabo Delgado: Border weaknesses allow entry of weapons that fuel terrorism
Plataforma - Macau - 07/12/2020
The Minister of National Defense, Jaime Neto, considered the weaknesses on national borders as a gap in the fight against terrorists in Cabo Delgado. The minister spoke this Sunday, at the extraordinary summit of the African Union, and argued that issues of peace deserve…
Ex-surgeon sentenced to 15 years in prison for abuse against 349 children
IstoÉ - Brasil - 06/12/2020
Former surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec, 70, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the sexual abuse of 349 children in France, including their nieces. He was arrested in 2017. The information is from the Extra newspaper.
The conviction came after the police discovered several…
Citizen burned alive in act of popular justice for the death of businessman in Angola
O País - Angola - 05/12/2020
The death of businessman António Segunda Amões, due to illness, in a hospital, fell like a bomb in the village of which he was the patron, Camela Amões, in Huambo. To avenge his death, the villagers burned one citizen alive and seriously injured another, in an ignoble act…
Gitanjali Rao is the “Child of the Year” for Time magazine
Jornal de Notícias - Portugal - 05/12/2020
The American magazine Time named a 15-year-old scientist and inventor as the first “Child of the Year”, a title that Gitanjali Rao intends to use to inspire others to have ideas that “solve the world’s problems”.
The teenager invented technologies such as a…
China's space agency releases images of national flag unfurled on moon
Shanghai Daily - China - 04/12/2020
The China National Space Administration Friday released images showing China’s national flag unfurled from the Chang’e-5 probe on the moon.
The images were taken by a panoramic camera installed on the lander-ascender combination of the probe, before the…
Xi Jinping announces the eradication of “absolute poverty” in China
IstoÉ - Brasil - 04/12/2020
The President of People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, announced on Thursday (3) that the country “overcame absolute poverty” and formalized the “victory” noting that the Politburo Standing Committee united and guided the entire Chinese…
Man who killed Shanghai students executed
Shanghai Daily - China - 03/12/2020
A 31-year-old man who killed two elementary school students in 2018 was executed on Thursday following an order from the Supreme People’s Court.
In 2017, Huang Yichuan is said to have visited many places around the country, including Shanghai, to search for…