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/ 15 January 2004
The world’s largest ocean liner, the Queen Mary 2, arrived on Thursday at the Portuguese island of Madeira under tight security following an anonymous bomb threat. The British shipping company Cunard received three anonymous phone calls in which the caller claimed there were bombs on board the ocean liner.
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/ 14 November 2003
A Portuguese television journalist was injured on Friday when a convoy of journalists was attacked near the southern Iraqi city of Basra, reports said. A radio journalist was abducted by the gunmen. Contacted by mobile phone, Carlos Raleiras of the radio station TSF said he had been kidnapped.
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Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso has downplayed the crisis unleashed by the resignation of Foreign Minister Antonio Martins da Cruz, stressing that he stepped down for personal reasons. The government is going through ”difficult moments”, but it will ”face” them, the premier said.
Angola wants to direct foreign investment to its agricultural sector, devastated by decades of civil war, in the hope the west African country can one day return to being an food net exporter.
The military in the tiny west African island nation of Sao Tome and Principe launched a coup early on Wednesday in the former Portuguese colony, taking advantage of the president’s absence on a foreign trip.
Mozambique wants rich nations to stop giving their farmers subsidies so that African food goods can can compete fairly on the world market.
AN international aid group said Friday that up to half a million Angolans face starvation in one of Africa’s worst humanitarian crises in a decade.
Angola’s Defence Minister Kundi Paihama says demobilisation camps set up for Unita soldiers have taken in people who have falsely claimed to belong to the rebel group.
A senior World Bank official has called on economists to do more to measure the contribution made by rich countries to cut poverty in poorer countries.