Deportes

Italy’s Bastianini on pole for Portugal MotoGP

“I’m very satisfied. Since Friday, we’ve seen that the bike has potential for this weekend.” Italy’s Enea Bastianini snatched pole position for the first time on a Ducati Saturday with the fastest time in qualifying for Portugal’s MotoGP, the second race of the season. The 26-year-old clocked 1min 37.706sec on the Portimao circuit to finish

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Portugal Had Little Appetite for the Far Right, Until Chega

The sun-soaked Algarve region on Portugal’s Southern coast is a place where guitar-strumming backpackers gather by fragrant orange trees and digital nomads hunt for laid-back vibes. It is not exactly what comes to mind when one envisions a stronghold of far-right political sentiment. But it is in the Algarve region where the anti-establishment Chega party

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Tickets for Boks versus Portugal Test in Bloem on sale Friday

The match against Portugal will follow after the two Tests against Ireland. It’s now the turn of Bloemfontein and the Free State! Ticket sales for the historic first ever Test between South Africa and Portugal in Bloemfontein, home of the Cheetahs rugby team, on July 20 go on sale on Friday. This, after tickets to

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Former Portugal PM Socrates appeals move to try him for corruption

Socrates already faces trial for money laundering and tax fraud, which he denies. He particularly objected to the corruption charges. Portugal’s former socialist prime minister Jose Socrates said on Friday he would challenge a decision to send him to trial for corruption. “It’s a great disappointment,” he told AFP of the Lisbon appeal court’s decision,

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IKEA pokes fun at Portugal political scandal with cheeky new ad campaign

It’s not the first time the Swedish flatpack furniture giant has dipped its advertising toes into Portuguese politics. ADVERTISEMENT Flatpack furniture giant IKEA has been on the receiving end of complaints as well as compliments over a new advertising campaign that pokes fun at a political scandal in Portugal.  New posters have appeared, advertising an

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