A running tracker of AIMA — case backlog, renewal deadlines, biometrics, golden visa and service changes. Updated whenever there is news.

If you are dealing with residence or nationality, this is the page to bookmark. Instead of one article per announcement, we gather the essentials of AIMA here: case backlog, renewal deadlines, biometrics, golden visa and service changes. For the citizenship rules, see the new nationality law. Official information is at AIMA. If you want to bring family to Portugal, you can now apply for family reunification directly with AIMA, even while your relatives…

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Five places worth the drive: the Caminhos do Cinema Português festival opens on Saturday at Coimbra's TAGV, Marvão holds its chestnut festival, Golegã closes its 50th horse fair, Guimarães Jazz has its busiest day and Lisbon opens Alkantara.

Mid-November brings chestnuts, horses, jazz and a lot of film. Here are five places to point the car this weekend, from Marvão up to Guimarães, and a good share of it costs nothing. The Caminhos do Cinema Português festival reaches its 32nd edition and opens on Saturday 14 at 17:30 at the Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente, with a preview of Raquel Freire's "Mulheres de Abril". It sits in Coimbra city council's culture listings for the week, alongside most…

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The National Association of Realtors counted 3.75 million sales at an annual rate in October, down 5.5% on the month and 8.8% on the year. The 30-year fixed rate averaged 7.33%, against 6.25% a year earlier, yet the median price still edged up 0.4% to $416,700.

Americans bought fewer existing homes in October than in any month since August 2010. The National Association of Realtors counted 3.75 million sales at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, down 5.5% from September and 8.8% from a year earlier. NAR's chief economist, Lawrence Yun, put it down to borrowing costs: buying is hard when mortgage rates sit at their highest since 2000.

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In 2026 a meal allowance paid with your salary is tax-exempt only up to €6.15 a working day. On a meal card the ceiling is €10.455. Portugal's tax authority counted 2.4 million workers paid that way in 2025, and both limits rise in 2027.

About 2.4 million workers in Portugal received their meal allowance (subsídio de refeição) on vouchers or a meal card in 2025, according to tax authority figures sent to the Lusa news agency and reported on Thursday by RTP. In total 4.7 million people got a meal allowance, so by our count just over half (51.9%) now get it on a card.

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Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner reached the Kremlin on Thursday, a day after two days of three-way talks in Abu Dhabi ended without a breakthrough. They want Putin to accept Europeans at the table, and Zelensky to hear the outcome before Friday's informal EU leaders' meeting.

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived at the Kremlin shortly after 1pm on Thursday (10am in Lisbon) for a meeting with Vladimir Putin, having been met at Vnukovo airport by Kirill Dmitriev, the Russian president's special envoy. The trip had been flagged on Wednesday, when two days of US-Russia-Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi wrapped up, the first three-way round since February.

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The club confirmed on Thursday that Carrick has left, with United 18th in the Premier League after one win in ten league games. USA head coach Mauricio Pochettino is the reported favourite to succeed him.

Manchester United have announced Michael Carrick's departure, the club confirmed on Thursday, with the team 18th in the Premier League. Its statement called him "a Manchester United legend" and said a permanent successor would be appointed as quickly as possible. The timing uses the international break. United have one win in ten league games, with five draws and four defeats. By our count that is eight points, and it leaves them below the relegation line.

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Beijing's commerce ministry extended the suspension of six October 2025 export rules, including the extraterritorial 0.1% rule, for 61 days rather than a year. The decision lands ahead of a Xi-Trump meeting at APEC in Shenzhen.

China is not tightening rare-earth exports again just yet, but it has stopped handing out long breathing space. Its commerce ministry and customs authority issued Announcement No. 58 on 9 November, keeping six export-control rules from October 2025 suspended. The last suspension ran for a year. This one runs from 11 November to 10 January 2027, which is 61 days. Six notices from 2025. The two that mattered most outside China cover batteries (licences for…

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At GamesRadar's public-voted Golden Joystick Awards, Capcom's horror sequel took four of 25 categories. Japanese hide-and-seek hit Meccha Chameleon also took four, and Capcom was named Studio of the Year.

Resident Evil Requiem is the big winner of the 2026 Golden Joystick Awards. Capcom's ninth mainline survival-horror game took four of the 25 categories on Wednesday, including the top one, Ultimate Game of the Year, according to the official winners list published by GamesRadar, which runs the awards. Its other three were Console Game of the Year, Best Game Trailer and Best Lead Performer, for Angela Sant'Albano. Capcom also collected Studio of the Year,…

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Seven men from an air-conditioning firm in Seia were fitting a refrigeration system on a building in the town's industrial zone when the roof collapsed. They fell about six metres and were taken to Guarda hospital.

Five workers were seriously injured and two more slightly hurt when a factory roof collapsed in Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, in Portugal's Guarda district, on Wednesday morning, the Portuguese radio station TSF reported. The alarm was raised at about 10:40. All seven men worked for an air-conditioning company from Seia and were installing a refrigeration system on the roof of a building in the town's industrial zone when it gave way. They fell around six…

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Day 1s is scripted fiction set in English football, made by UR Marv, the company Ronaldo set up with director Matthew Vaughn. No broadcaster or release date has been announced.

A week after walking away from the Portugal team, Cristiano Ronaldo has found something else to do. On Wednesday he announced that cameras are rolling on Day 1s, his first television series, as the Portuguese sports daily A Bola reported, with a short promise of more news soon. He posted three photos. One shows him with director Matthew Vaughn. Another has actor Damian Lewis alongside the British rapper Dave. The third is a Brentford dressing room.

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A running tracker of Portugal's housing market — the INE price index, bank valuations, rents and affordability. Updated with each new data release.

We gather here, in one place, how Portugal's housing market is moving. Instead of one article per data point, we update this page with the essentials: the INE price index, bank valuations, rents and affordability for buyers and renters — which since 1 August also runs through the new mortgage rules, with the debt-service cap down to 45%. Official data is at INE.

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Sign-ups for ARVoRe, the International Organization for Migration's assisted return programme, rose from an average of 55 a month in 2025 to 79 in 2026, up more than 40%. There have been 2,048 since it began, 86% of them Brazilian. Who qualifies, what it pays (up to €2,000 to restart) and how to apply.

More immigrants in Portugal are asking for help to go home. ARVoRe, the assisted voluntary return programme run by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), took an average of 79 sign-ups a month in 2026 (figures to September), against 55 a month in 2025, according to IOM numbers reported by the Lusa news agency. By our maths that is a 43.6% jump.

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Applications for NASA's next astronaut class opened on 7 November and close at 11.59pm Eastern on Thursday 3 December (4.59am Friday in Lisbon). Candidates need US citizenship, a STEM master's or equivalent and three years' experience. Last time, more than 8,000 people applied for 10 places.

NASA is hiring astronauts again. Applications for its next class opened on 7 November and close at 11.59pm US Eastern time on Thursday 3 December. In Portugal, that is 4.59am on Friday the 4th. The agency wants more people for its Artemis missions to the Moon. It expects to make the final picks in late 2027, when training starts. The first condition rules out most of our readers straight away: you must be a US citizen. For Portuguese-Americans and dual…

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All three were released by the Portuguese federation's medical staff on Monday, ahead of Saturday's Nations League game against Denmark (14 November, 8.45pm, a sold-out Braga). Monaco's Flávio Nazinho gets his first senior call-up, Gonçalo Inácio returns and the squad drops from 28 to 27. Portugal need one point from two games to win the group.

Jorge Jesus's first squad without Cristiano Ronaldo lasted three days intact. On Monday, the first day of camp, the federation released Rafael Leão, Nuno Tavares and Tomás Araújo after its medical staff ruled them unfit for the games against Denmark and Wales. Two players come in. One is brand new: Flávio Nazinho, Monaco's left-back, who had never been picked for the senior side (his club broke the news on Monday morning). The other is a return. Sporting…

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Apple released iOS 27.2.1 on 9 November with nine security fixes. Two are in Messages: a remote attacker could join an iMessage group chat and receive its messages, and someone added to a group could see what was sent before they joined. Five more involve Bluetooth and AirPlay pairing. It covers iPhone 11 and later.

If your iPhone has been nagging you about an update this week, say yes. Apple shipped iOS 27.2.1 on Monday 9 November, and Apple's own security note lists nine fixed flaws. The one anybody will understand lives in Messages. A remote attacker could get into an iMessage group chat and receive the messages sent inside it. No invitation needed. Two things, both in group chats. The first is the one above: an authorisation bug that let an outsider join a group.…

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Vox said on Wednesday 11 November that Santiago Abascal will no longer appear on The Wild Project podcast. The party says RTVE and producer El Terrat cut 40 minutes from his interview on La Revuelta and refuse to release them. From now on, Abascal will only do interviews where Vox gets equal rights over the edit.

Santiago Abascal will not be sitting down with Jordi Wild after all. Vox announced on X on Wednesday 11 November that it had pulled its leader out of The Wild Project, the YouTuber's long-form interview podcast. The recording was due that same day. Vox insists the host did nothing wrong. Its quarrel is with the state broadcaster. Because of La Revuelta. Abascal appeared on David Broncano's late-night show on RTVE's La 1 on Monday night, 9 November.…

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VisionQuest's eighth and final episode, "Forever", landed on Disney+ overnight. In one of its mid-credits scenes Wanda Maximoff, presumed dead since 2022, gasps back to life, with a hooded figure who looks a lot like Doctor Doom standing over her. Avengers: Doomsday opens in December.

Marvel kept its surprise for the final seconds. VisionQuest's last episode, "Forever", dropped on Disney+ at 9pm Eastern on Tuesday, 2am in Lisbon, and in one of its mid-credits scenes Elizabeth Olsen is back as Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch audiences watched die in 2022. The scene, laid out in TVLine's recap of the finale, returns to the end of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, where Wanda brings Mount Wundagore down to destroy every copy…

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CCOO, UGT, CGT and CNT have called a general strike for Wednesday 11 November over pay, housing and prices. Spain's Transport Ministry set minimum services of 73% on AVE trains, 75% at peak on Cercanías and 39% to 64% on international flights.

Spain is on a 24-hour general strike today, Wednesday 11 November, running midnight to midnight. If you are flying there from Portugal, the number that matters is the minimum service: on flights between Spain and other countries, which covers routes to Lisbon and Porto, the Spanish government has ordered airlines to keep between 39% and 64% of operations, depending on the airport. The figures come from Spain's Transport Ministry and, according to the…

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A New York indictment unsealed on 10 November says three vans carrying fuel barrels and fake company decals headed for the US-used British airbase on 26 September. The same three men are tied to around 18 attacks across Europe.

Three vans, barrels of fuel, and decals made to look like a fuel delivery firm's. That is how federal prosecutors in Manhattan describe the plot against RAF Fairford, the Gloucestershire airbase the US Air Force flies from. The superseding indictment announced on 10 November by the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York charges three men and says they acted for the Iraqi militia Kataib Hezbollah and Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

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With mainland Portugal on alert on Wednesday 11 November, Chaves and Monforte move their magusto and market to Friday, Penafiel shifts its horse fair to Saturday and its procession to Sunday, and two festivals are off altogether.

Wednesday is St Martin's Day, the day Portugal roasts chestnuts, opens the new wine and hopes for the "summer of São Martinho". This year the saint is waiting. With the Government declaring an alert for the whole mainland on the 11th and outdoor events suspended, town halls spent Tuesday afternoon rewriting their programmes. The reason is Storm Charles, which brings red wind warnings to several districts and has already shut schools across the country on…

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The goods trade deficit reached €3,209 million in September, €314 million more than a year earlier, INE says, with fuels behind 74% of the rise in imports. January to September it totals €27,875 million, up €3,006 million.

Portugal bought €723 million more in goods from abroad in September than a year earlier, and sold €409 million more. The gap pushed the goods trade deficit up by €314 million, to €3,209 million. According to INE's international trade statistics, 74% of the rise in imports came from a single category: fuels and lubricants. In percentage terms, exports rose 5.7% and imports 7.2% on September 2025.

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The 14 stores open over the next three months in eight districts: Braga, Faro, Leiria, Lisbon, Porto, Setúbal, Vila Real and Viseu. Sonae's supermarket chain says it will prioritise people living near each store. Vacancies are posted on the group's careers page.

Continente, the supermarket chain owned by Sonae, will open 14 stores over the next three months and needs more than 500 people to run them, according to the announcement as reported by Grande Consumo, the retail trade magazine. For job-seekers, the detail that matters is this one: the chain says it will give priority to people who live near each new store.

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INE's new-housing construction cost index rose 7.4% in September. Materials are now up 7.2%, the fastest since February 2023, driven by diesel, copper wire, bitumen and PVC pipes.

Building a new home in Portugal cost 7.4% more in September than a year earlier, according to the construction cost index for new housing from INE, the national statistics office. The headline figure is not new (June hit 7.4% too). What sits underneath it is. A year ago, almost all of the pressure came from wages. Materials were barely moving, up 1.4%. Now they are rising 7.2%, the fastest pace since February 2023, and they now add as much to the increase…

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A nationwide state of alert runs from midnight to 23:59 on 11 November: schools at every level and non-essential public services close, outdoor events are suspended. IPMA has raised eight districts to a red wind warning, with gusts of 120 to 140 km/h.

Wednesday, 11 November, is a day to stay indoors. The government has declared a state of alert across mainland Portugal from midnight to 23:59 and ordered schools at every level and non-essential public services to close as Storm Charles moves in, JN reported. Internal Administration minister Luís Neves announced it on Tuesday morning after meeting the IPMA weather service and Civil Protection in Carnaxide.

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The ECB Ethics Committee's opinion of 19 May found that Mário Centeno's CNN Portugal commentary raises no conflict of interest and that his non-executive seat at Abanca Vida y Pensiones respects the six-month cooling-off rule. He pledged not to discuss monetary policy before 6 October 2026.

The European Central Bank's ethics committee saw no problem with the two jobs Mário Centeno took after leaving the Bank of Portugal. Its opinion, sent to Christine Lagarde on 19 May, says his weekly commentary on CNN Portugal "does not raise and could not be perceived as raising" a conflict of interest, and that his seat as an independent non-executive director of the insurer Abanca Vida y Pensiones meets the required cooling-off period.

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The pair step down as co-chairs and co-CEOs of DC Studios, now owned by Paramount Skydance. Former Marvel executive Jeremy Latcham takes over on 1 December, while Gunn and Safran stay on as producers and finish Man of Tomorrow, due in July 2027.

James Gunn and Peter Safran are no longer running DC Studios. The duo hired four years ago to rebuild DC's film universe from scratch are stepping down as co-chairs and co-CEOs, Variety reported on Monday, handing the studio to Marvel veteran Jeremy Latcham. It is the most visible fallout so far from Paramount Skydance's takeover of Warner Bros., the deal that put David Ellison's group in charge of DC. Latcham starts on 1 December and reports to the…

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19,806 professional footballers from 73 countries voted for FIFPRO's team of the year. PSG's two Portuguese players make it for a second year running, Messi reaches a record 18 selections and Harry Kane falls just short on 27.6%.

The people who play against them every week have picked Vitinha and Nuno Mendes again. Paris Saint-Germain's two Portuguese players are in the 2026 FIFPRO Men's World 11, announced on Monday 9 November, a year after both made the 2025 team. FIFPRO is the global players' union, and that is what gives this award its weight. No journalists, no national-team coaches. Only players vote, and this year 19,806 of them did, from 73 countries.

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Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 on 9 November alongside Mythos 5.2, a restricted version. The API price drops to $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output, from $10 and $50 for Fable 5.1, and its robot-control score more than doubles.

Anthropic has a new model, and it costs less than the last one. Claude Fable 5.2 launched on Monday 9 November, and the official model page puts the API price at $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens. Fable 5.1, released in September, cost $10 and $50. That is 20% off at both ends. A token is a chunk of a word, the unit these models read and write in. A million of them is, roughly, several hundred pages of text.

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Christmas in Porto starts on Saturday 28 November at 6pm, when the tree in Praça General Humberto Delgado is switched on with a concert still to be announced. The council puts up to €765,000 into the lights, up from €700,000 in 2025. Ice rink in Praça D. João I, a 'Praça da Fantasia' at Boavista and the São Silvestre run on 20 December.

It is nearly three weeks away, but the date is set. Christmas in Porto officially begins on Saturday 28 November at 6pm, when the tree in Praça General Humberto Delgado, right in front of City Hall, is switched on and the city's lights with it. Porto City Council has confirmed the date and promises a concert for the switch-on, with the line-up still to come.

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Spain's Supreme Court has refused, by majority, to extend a voting suspension to the 189,678 adult children of people who gained Spanish nationality under the 'grandchildren law'. They can vote in the 29 November general election. The 163,355 naturalised under a Justice Ministry instruction stay suspended, as they have been since 10 September.

The adult children of people who became Spanish under the so-called grandchildren law will be able to vote in Spain's general election on 29 November. The administrative chamber of Spain's Supreme Court on Monday refused, by majority, to extend to them the voting suspension already imposed on their parents, Euronews reported. That is 189,678 people, according to Spain's Foreign Ministry, who vote from abroad.

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IPMA has put Lisbon, Setúbal, Leiria, Santarém, Beja and Faro on orange wind warnings from noon to 9pm on Wednesday 11 November, with gusts of 100 to 120 km/h. Heavy rain hits the inland centre and south early on Tuesday, and Madeira goes orange from Tuesday night.

Storm Bruna has barely loosened its grip and the next one is lined up. Portugal's weather service, IPMA, has named it Charles and already placed six mainland districts on orange wind warnings for Wednesday 11 November: Lisbon, Setúbal, Leiria, Santarém, Beja and Faro, from noon to 9pm, with gusts of around 100 to 120 km/h. Orange is the middle of three levels. It means dangerous weather, the kind that brings down trees, scaffolding and loose roofing. For…

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Canada made its rural immigration pilot permanent on 9 November. Renamed the Rural Community Immigration Program, it gets 5,500 admission places in the 2027-2029 levels plan and runs through employers vetted by 14 local communities, which issued over 4,700 job offers and recommendations from 2025.

If emigrating appeals but Toronto and Vancouver don't, Canada has just made one of its side doors a fixture. Announcing it on Monday in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, the Canadian government said its rural immigration pilot becomes a permanent pathway to residence, renamed the Rural Community Immigration Program. The 2027-2029 immigration levels plan sets aside 5,500 admission places for it.

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Eurostat's house price-to-income ratio rose 60.8% in Portugal between 2015 and 2025, the biggest rise in the EU and almost nine times the EU's 6.8%. In the underlying series, 2025 alone added 12.1%, the steepest year since 2001, leaving Portugal 37% above its long-term average, the highest reading in the 27.

If every property listing seems to make your pay packet look smaller, Eurostat has the numbers to back you up. Between 2015 and 2025 the ratio of house prices to household income per person rose 60.8% in Portugal, the largest increase of any EU country, according to Eurostat's release on Monday. Across the EU it rose 6.8%. Portugal's rise is almost nine times that. Next come the Netherlands (+34.3%), Hungary (+26.5%), Czechia (+25.8%) and Spain (+24.5%).…

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Netflix's live-action prequel, Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure, opens on 19 April 1955 in Marion, Nevada. Kate Trefry, who wrote the Tony-winning play The First Shadow, is showrunner. It's due in 2028, and nobody has been cast yet.

Netflix picked Stranger Things Day, 6 November, to say the show isn't done. It's just going back further than anyone expected. The new live-action series is called Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure, it's a prequel, and Netflix's official announcement is up on its YouTube channel. It lands in 2028. 2028 is as precise as it gets for now. The teaser opens on a title card reading "April 19, 1955, Marion, Nevada", with The Chords' "Sh-Boom" crackling…

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A wooden pirogue capsized between Dakar and Saint-Louis on its way to Spain's Canary Islands. One person was pulled out alive and nobody yet knows how many are missing. At the other end of the route, El Hierro has declared a social emergency after more than 8,000 arrivals in five weeks.

At least 34 people have died after a wooden pirogue heading for the Canary Islands capsized off Senegal, somewhere between Dakar and the northern city of Saint-Louis. The toll, given by Senegalese officials and reported by France 24, may still rise. One person was rescued alive, according to the interior ministry. How many were on board is still unclear. The search goes on.

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The Australian design platform is cutting 1,271 jobs, 22% of its staff, after its growth slowed for the first time in a decade. The exit package (at least six months' pay, a year of healthcare, the laptop and a no-strings $10,000 fund) became LinkedIn's case study of the week.

Canva is letting go of 1,271 people, 22% of its workforce, in a note from co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins that the company posted in its newsroom. The headcount was confirmed by TechCrunch. By our maths, that puts the Australian company at roughly 5,800 people before the cuts. The size of the layoff isn't why everyone's talking about it. The leaving package is.

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House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said on ABC on Sunday that he backs impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the war with Iran. Republican Thomas Massie is expected to refile his resolution this week, and as a privileged motion it must get a floor vote within two days. Removal would still need two-thirds of the Senate.

As late as Friday, Hakeem Jeffries was calling for Pete Hegseth to go without using the word impeachment. On Sunday he used it. On ABC's This Week, the House Democratic leader said he is a "hard yes" on impeaching the defense secretary. He accused Hegseth of abusing his power, undermining national security and steering the country into a costly war with Iran. "Pete Hegseth has got to go," he said.

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FC Porto beat Vitória SC 2-1 on Sunday, Borja Sainz and substitute Martim Fernandes (86') scoring, to reach the international break with 11 wins from 11 league games and 33 points. Benfica won 3-2 at Estrela da Amadora with a Pavlidis goal in the 94th minute and sit five points back. Third-placed Sporting, on 24, go to the Dragão on 29 November.

Eleven games, eleven wins. FC Porto beat Vitória SC 2-1 in Guimarães on Sunday night, and the club's own match report spells out the number that matters: the champions go into the international break with a perfect record and 33 points. According to O Jogo, only five sides had previously won at least their first 11 games of a Portuguese top-flight season. Porto are the sixth.

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Nvidia's board said on Sunday that a committee of independent directors, working with outside counsel, will investigate reports that founder and CEO Jensen Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort. It says it has no reason to believe US national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised, and that Huang supports the review.

Nvidia's board is opening an independent investigation following reports that Jensen Huang, the company's founder and chief executive, was the target of a foreign intelligence operation. The board's own statement, published on Sunday, is short and carefully worded. A committee of independent directors will oversee the inquiry, assisted by outside counsel. The board says it currently has no reason to believe that US national security or Nvidia's secrets…

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Integrar para a Construção pairs about 300 hours of technical training with a 300-hour placement at a building firm, paying up to one IAS a month plus meal and transport allowances. AIMA republished the rulebook on 3 November with three-working-day deadlines and a Portuguese-language requirement. The first cycle drew 44 trainees towards a 500 target.

If you hold a Portuguese residence permit and fancy learning a trade on a building site, the state will pay you up to €537.13 a month while you do it. The scheme is called Integrar para a Construção, run by AIMA (the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum) with the construction industry, and its rules have just been redone: AIMA Deliberation 1230/2026, published in the Diário da República on 3 November, republishes the whole rulebook with the…

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Five days after the midterms, Democrat Scott Colom leads Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith 49.1% to 48.8% in Mississippi, with mail and provisional ballots still to come and no recount process in state law. In Alaska, Mary Peltola is 637 votes ahead of Dan Sullivan.

Five days after the midterms, two US Senate seats still have no winner, and the less likely of the two is in Mississippi. On Saturday, Democrat Scott Colom had 49.1% of the vote to Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith's 48.8%, a lead of 2,574 votes with 97% counted, according to the Associated Press. If it holds, Mississippi will send a Democrat to the Senate for the first time since 1982, as ABC News points out in its rundown of how the count works.

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Our running tracker of the markets that move savings in Portugal — gold, Fed and ECB decisions, oil and stocks. Updated whenever there is news.

This is our running tracker of the markets that move savings in Portugal. Instead of a fresh article for every swing, we update this page whenever something matters: gold, Federal Reserve and European Central Bank decisions, oil and the main stock indices. For the background on the Portuguese economy, see our mid-year review. Official data is at the Bank of Portugal.

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