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New EU regulations for end-of-life vehicles take effect

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New European Union regulations regarding end-of-life vehicles come into force this Thursday, August 13. The rules aim to boost the recycling and reuse of automotive materials while reducing the bloc's reliance on imported raw materials.

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New EU regulations for end-of-life vehicles take effect

Portugal

1975: At 4.30 in the morning, soldiers of Paratrooper Company 122 blow up the Buraca transmitters of Rádio Renascença, silencing the Catholic station whose Lisbon studios had been occupied by its workers for months. Ordered by the government and the Council of the Revolution, the explosion began the station's return to the Church, completed on 28 December 1975.
1933:A Canção de Lisboa, 1933
'A Canção de Lisboa', the first sound feature film made entirely in Portugal, premieres at the São Luiz theatre in Lisbon. Directed by José Cottinelli Telmo and starring Vasco Santana, Beatriz Costa and António Silva, its comedy of a medical student fooling his rich aunts left lines and songs the Portuguese still quote.
Read more Dictatorship and the Estado Novo, 1926–1974

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1917: Bolshevik forces led by Lenin seize the Winter Palace in Petrograd and overthrow the Provisional Government — the 'October Revolution', so called because Russia still used the Julian calendar.

Which Portuguese word describes a deep emotional longing for something absent?

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