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Casa do Brasil in Braga is the new association to support the city's immigrant community

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Casa do Brasil de Braga has been launched as a new association to provide support and services to immigrants in Braga, aiming to facilitate integration and address community needs. The initiative represents a coordinated local response to immigrant challenges by offering a dedicated organisational structure for assistance, outreach and advocacy. Monitoring its service offerings, partnerships and uptake will be important to assess its effectiveness in strengthening social inclusion and community cohesion in Braga.

Diário de Notícias9 Jan

Casa do Brasil in Braga is the new association to support the city's immigrant community

Public transport prices in Braga to fall by 25%, free service targeted for 2029

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Cuts to the price of Braga Urban Transport passes could reach 25% by 2027, with free service aimed for by 2029. Currently, the service has a price discrepancy between urban and rural areas.

publico.pt20 Oct

Braga without BRT until the outer ring road is completed

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João Rodrigues confirmed the return of 13 million euros to the RRP and admitted negotiations regarding the costs of abandoning the red line of the metrobus.

observador.pt17 Jul

Braga without BRT until the outer ring road is completed

José Rodrigues attacks the Taça de Portugal at "home"

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José Rodrigues prepares to compete in the Portuguese Cup at his home venue.

autolook.pt14 May

José Rodrigues attacks the Taça de Portugal at "home"

American Laurie Anderson returns to Portugal for concerts in Lisbon and Braga

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The show <em>Republic of Love</em> about the “current state of America” will take place at the Centro Cultural de Belém and Theatro Circo at the end of May and beginning of June.

Público3 Mar

American Laurie Anderson returns to Portugal for concerts in Lisbon and Braga

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Multidisciplinary artist and pioneer of electronic music performs in Lisbon and Braga.

Correio da Manhã3 Mar

Music, immigration and entrepreneurship: the transformation of a woman from Rio in Portugal

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Eliete Gonçalves, a PhD student who came to study in Portugal, reinvented her career and became a cultural entrepreneur in Braga.

Público16 Feb

Music, immigration and entrepreneurship: the transformation of a woman from Rio in Portugal

From luxury cars to more than 8,300 bottles in a wine cellar. This is just one of the many stories that passed through The Court of the Powerful

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EXCLUSIVE || CNN Portugal pre-publishes an excerpt from journalist António José Vilela's book, 'The Court of the Powerful', a work focused on the stories of several high-profile cases that went through the Central Criminal Instruction Court. In the excerpt now published, subchapter 11, the final interrogations of Armando Pereira, co‑founder of Altice, and Braga businessman Hernâni Vaz Antunes are portrayed, as well as the surveillance of friends and the seizures at luxury homes.

CNN Portugal12 Jan

From luxury cars to more than 8,300 bottles in a wine cellar. This is just one of the many stories that passed through The Court of the Powerful

Viana do Castelo and Braga under yellow warning from Monday to Tuesday due to rain and strong winds

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The yellow warning is the least severe on a three-tier scale.

Correio da Manhã11 Jan

Viana do Castelo and Braga under yellow warning from Monday to Tuesday due to rain and strong winds

23:00. IPMA: Viana do Castelo and Braga under yellow warning

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The yellow warning comes into force at 18:00 tomorrow and remains in effect until 09:00 on Tuesday. Also, André Ventura says he would be able to criticise Donald Trump if elected President of the Republic.

Observador11 Jan

23:00. IPMA: Viana do Castelo and Braga under yellow warning

Seventh day of the campaign takes candidates to the north of the country

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Most presidential candidates are spending the day in the north and inland regions of the country. Seguro will be in Braga, António Filipe in Porto. Meanwhile, Marques Mendes is touring Viana do Castelo, Braga and Aveiro.

Observador10 Jan

Seventh day of the campaign takes candidates to the north of the country

Mourinho struggles with 'injury problem' at Benfica

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Benfica and SC Braga play the second semi-final of the League Cup Final Four this Wednesday. With the injury list worsening at the club from the Luz, José Mourinho addressed the need to adapt the team given the 'lack of options for squad rotation'.

RTP Notícias6 Jan

Mourinho struggles with 'injury problem' at Benfica

Portugal

1665: At the Battle of Ambuíla in northern Angola, a Portuguese force from Luanda under Luís Lopes de Sequeira defeats the army of the Kingdom of Kongo. King António I is killed and beheaded, and the once-powerful kingdom slides into civil war.
1936:The Tarrafal prison camp
The steamer Luanda lands the first 152 political prisoners at the Tarrafal concentration camp on Santiago island in Cape Verde, among them Marinha Grande strikers and sailors from the September mutiny. The 'camp of slow death' operated until 1954 and again from 1961 to 1974.
Read more Dictatorship and the Estado Novo, 1926–1974

Elsewhere

1929: 'Black Tuesday' on Wall Street: some 16 million shares change hands as the New York stock market collapses, the crash that ushered in the Great Depression.

What event prompted the composition of Portugal's national anthem, A Portuguesa?

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