Ranked: The Top 50 Countries by Central Bank Reserves

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D7 vs Golden Visa: Which Route to Portugal Is Right for You in 2025?

For non-EU nationals, two routes dominate the conversation: the D7 Visa and the Golden Visa. Both can lead to residency and eventually citizenship, but they serve very different lifestyles and financial profiles. The D7 Visa – For Those Ready to...

Cheryl Pooley: Huge financial investment in our youth required

The image of the 43 murder victims has received solutions-driven responses — as it should The photographs of 43 murder victims on the front cover of The Royal Gazette on September 16, left me feeling gutted. We are no longer a community that was...

New Yam Festival to boost Enugu economy, tourism in December

Enugu is set to experience a major economic and cultural boost as the 2025 New Yam Music Festival (NYMF) brings together thousands of visitors, investors, and cultural enthusiasts from across the world this December. Organisers of the festival...

Sting performing Portugal beach concert

"The news is that we will have Sting on the beach, in Figueira da Foz, on July 17th, for a unique and exclusive concert in Portugal," according to Tiago Castelo Branco, general director of the production company MOT – Memories of Tomorrow. The...

GLOBALink | Portugal's economy minister eyes deeper innovation cooperation with China

"China is today at a remarkable level of technological development and is a major driver of global technological innovation," Portuguese Minister of Economy and Territorial Cohesion Manuel Castro Almeida said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua...

Opinion – International Recognition of Palestine and the Risk of a West Bank “Frontier”

In September 2025 alone, ten states – including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Portugal, and the United Kingdom – recognized the State of Palestine. As of September 25, 157 countries have extended such recognition, including four of the five...

OE2026: Business associations ask for lower taxes and more investment

The proposed measures include the creation of an annual subsidy to stimulate internal travel, tax relief for beverages, the investment of unexecuted funds from the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), and an end to rent freezes. These are the...

What will Israel's continuing control mean for the Palestinian economy?

Israel is expected to continue to control Palestine’s economy even if peace returns to the territory and the Gaza war ends amid current negotiations, while Palestine needs statehood to make its own decisions, experts have said. “I don't think that...

Germany start training for World Cup qualifiers without ill Woltemade

dpa Herzogenaurach, Germany Germany started training for their next World Cup qualifiers on Monday without ill striker Nick Woltemade and amid uncertainty whether he will be able to feature against Luxembourg and Northern Ireland. Team officials...

A STAR IS BORN The Invention of Culinary Prestige

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, “Le déjeuner des canotiers”, 1880-1881 © The Phillips Collection, Washington ‘One cannot think well, love well and sleep well, if one has not dined well’. (Virginia Woolf) Welcome to the world of Michelin stars, where your...

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT – A Tale of Two Systems

Inmates in a US Prison © Riverside County Sheriff’s Office It’s a simple fact of life: when a government anywhere in the world decides something is a crime, its biggest, most forceful response is usually to send someone to prison. Taking away a...

Youth-led unrest exposes cracks in Morocco economy

RABAT/CAIRO: Youth-led unrest that spread across Morocco last week revealed deep-seated anger over poverty and public services behind a storyline of ambitious infrastructure projects and modern stadiums opening ahead of the 2030 World Cup. The...

A quiz to groom India’s next-gen psychologists? Dr Samir Parikh is making mental health fun

Gurugram: He’s travelled to Paris with India’s Olympic team, started a psychology quiz that drew 12,000 schoolchildren this year, bantered with Ranveer Allahabadia on YouTube, held forth on TV panels, and spoken at dozens of TEDx events. The...

Interview: Portugal's economy minister eyes deeper innovation cooperation with China

LISBON, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- "China is today at a remarkable level of technological development and is a major driver of global technological innovation," Portuguese Minister of Economy and Territorial Cohesion Manuel Castro Almeida said in an...

Revolut officially joins Portuguese banking network

The financial institution, which has over two million customers in Portugal, has officially reached an agreement with SIBS to join Multibanco, which was "the biggest barrier to becoming the main bank account for Portuguese people." "This has been...

OCTOBER 2025 NEWS IN BRIEF

| EINRIDE OPERATES FIRST EVER FULLY AUTONOMOUS HEAVY-DUTY TRUCK ON A PUBLIC ROAD IN BELGIUM AT THE PORT OF ANTWERP-BRUGES Einride, a technology company that provides digital, electric and autonomous solutions for road freight, has for the first...

La caída de otro primer ministro dificultará que Francia arregle sus finanzas. ¿Qué hay detrás de su problema de deuda?

Por Ana Nicolaci da Costa, CNN Francia perdió a su quinto primer ministro en menos de dos años esta semana, justo antes de que el presupuesto de 2026 debiera enviarse al parlamento. Sébastien Lecornu renunció el lunes tras anunciar un gabinete que...

Milken Institute and Ann Theodore Foundation award over $2.5 million for sarcoidosis research

The Milken Institute Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Collaboration (SPARC), in partnership with the Ann Theodore Foundation (ATF), today announced that the Ann Theodore Foundation Breakthrough Sarcoidosis Initiative (ATF-BSI) has...

Optimism in Portugal olive oil production

In a statement, Olivum – the Portuguese Association of Olive Growers and Mills, based in Beja, indicated that its forecasts, at the beginning of the 2025/2026 olive oil campaign, "indicate that national olive oil production should be between...