Sporting Clube de Portugal, otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting, or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries, is a Portuguese sports club based in Lisbon. Having various sports departments and sporting disciplines, it is best known for its men's professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football.
Marcelo Nuno Duarte Rebelo de Sousa is a Portuguese politician and academic. He is the 20th and current president of Portugal, since 9 March 2016. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party, though he suspended his party membership for the duration of his presidency. Rebelo de Sousa has previously served as a government minister, parliamentarian in the Assembly of the Portuguese Republic, legal scholar, journalist, political analyst, law professor, and pundit.
Idanha-a-Nova is a town and surrounding municipality in the district of Castelo Branco, in east-central Portugal. A border municipality with Spain, the population of the municipality in 2011 was 9,716, in an area of 1416.34 km2, making it one of the largest and least densely populated municipalities in Portugal as well as the first Portuguese municipality by population ageing. King Alfonso II (1211-1223) confirmed its charter in 1219 renaming the village with the current place names (Idanha-a-Nova) to distinguish it from the old Idanha, 18 kilometers away. The municipal holiday is the Monday 15 days after Easter. The incumbent mayor is Armindo Moreira Palma Jacinto, representing the Socialist Party.
Rúben Filipe Marques Amorim is a Portuguese professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Primeira Liga club Sporting CP.
Mass media in Portugal includes a variety of online, print, and broadcast formats, such as radio, television, newspapers, and magazines. In the 20th century the Portuguese government censored the media, until the "1976 constitution guaranteed freedom of the press."
Television in Portugal was introduced in 1956 by Radiotelevisão Portuguesa, which held the nationwide television monopoly until late 1992. Regular broadcasting was introduced on March 7, 1957. Colour transmissions were introduced on March 10, 1980.
The Community of Portuguese Language Countries consists of nine member states, which list the Portuguese language as an official language, and only East Timor and Equatorial Guinea list a secondary official language.
Juliana Paiva dos Santos is a Brazilian actress.
Presidential elections were held in Portugal on 24 January 2016. The election chose the successor to the President Aníbal Cavaco Silva, who was constitutionally not allowed to run for a third consecutive term.
Criticism of TV Globo refers to the extensive history of controversies involving the Brazilian television network monopoly, which has an unparalleled ability to influence Brazil's culture and shape the country's public opinion. The owners of Rede Globo had enriched themselves with government favors to become billionaires. The Globo Grupo are remanagment the branding in the internet for self-promote since 2010's decade.
Rádio Trânsito, also known as Rádio Trânsito Caçula de Pneus, was a Brazilian radio station with headquarters in São Paulo city, capital of the homonym state, specialized in providing services and information on the transit of the roads of the capital and metropolitan region to its listeners. The station has a concession in the city of Mogi das Cruzes and operates on the FM radio in the 92.1 MHz frequency for the listeners in the São Paulo metropolitan area. The concession of the station is owned by Radio Metropolitana, also of Mogi das Cruzes, controlled by the Sanzone family, also owner of Metropolitana FM.
Bruno Miguel de Azevedo Gaspar de Carvalho is a Portuguese businessman, sports commentator and DJ who was the 42nd president of sports club Sporting CP from 2013 to 2018. He became the first Sporting president to be dismissed by associates of the club, four months after being re-elected with 87% of votes.
Presidential elections were held in Portugal on 24 January. The incumbent President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, was reelected for a second term.
André Claro Amaral Ventura is a Portuguese politician, university teacher, former sports pundit, and founder of the right-wing populist political party Chega.
A long series of criminal investigations have occurred in Brazil associated with Operation Car Wash. The first investigation was launched in March 2014, and is now known as phase 1 of the investigation, with subsequent inquiries numbered sequentially and having code names such as phase 2, phase 3, and so on. By February 2021, there were 80 announced phases of Operation Car Wash.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal was a part of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. On 2 March 2020, the virus was confirmed to have reached the country when it was reported that two men, a 60-year-old doctor who travelled to the north of Italy on vacation and a 33-year-old man working in Spain, tested positive for COVID-19. On 16 March 2020, the first death from COVID-19 was reported in Portugal.
Maria João Gonçalves Abreu Soares, known as Maria João Abreu, was a Portuguese film, television and stage actress. Her most notable works include Portuguese TV series Médico de Família, Aqui Não Há Quem Viva, Golpe de Sorte, and her strong presence in the typical Portuguese genre of "teatro de revista". She was famous for her uplifting roles, mostly associated with humour.
Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Portugal in January 2026. The elections will elect the successor to President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who is barred from running for a third term.
Rádio Observador is a Portuguese radio station. It was launched on 98.7 MHz in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area with about 30 collaborators, on 27 June 2019. In October 2019, it launched on 98.4 MHz in the Porto Metropolitan Area. The radio focuses on information but also airs music, talk shows and live football match reports. Its many programs are also published in podcast format and the radio is also continuously broadcast on-line. It belongs to the same media group of Observador, a Portuguese online newspaper started on 19 May 2014.
