LUSA 08/28/2026

Lusa - Business News - Portugal: Top news magazine, newspaper headlines on Thursday, 27 August

Lisbon, Aug. 27, 2026 (Lusa) - The flash floods in Nepal with two Portuguese missing, the Portuguese driver who ploughed into 16 people in Albufeira's bar district is charged with attempted manslaughter and Benfica and Braga hoping to advance in the Europa League are some of the most widely reported stories this Thursday morning.

 

Visão:

- «Water out of control. Millions of litres are being extracted, without supervision or metering, from hundreds of thousands of boreholes. Brussels is threatening sanctions»

- «Major business groups pay nominal tariffs and flaunt ‘green' labels whilst the country spends millions on combating drought»

- «Municipal tariffs penalise families but protect industrial and tourist consumption»

- «Social Security. Public or private pensions?»

- «Venezuela. How Trump calls the shots in Caracas»

- «Mystery. The strange death of the owner of Mango»

- «Se7e. 28 plans for the grape harvest»

 

Correio da Manhã:

- «Thief killed with luxury watches. Businessman from Minho recovers items»

- «Brazilian gang involved in €100,000 robbery»

- «Ploughed into 16 people in Albufeira. PJ police scrutinizes driver's life»

- «Car collision with wild boar kills father and injures son»

- «Almada and Seixal. Woman part of gang that robbed jewellers»

- «Brilliant pupils. Constança gains university place with top marks»

- «Presentation. ‘I want to make history at Benfica'. Palhinha has been a Benfica fan since he was a child and was already a club member in 2005»

- «European competitions. The Eagles (Benfica) and the Minho side, Braga, seek qualification"

- "Banned from driving for a year. Caught speeding 13 times"

- «Tragedy in Nepal. Portuguese nationals missing in Himalayan flash flood»

- «Hospitals. Chaos in the National Health Service with nearly 4,000 patients in A&E»

- «Banks. House prices rise to a new record high»

 

Público:

- «School staff ordered to repay thousands of euros to the State»

- «Floods in Nepal. Over 150 dead and hundreds missing»

- «Volleyball. Portugal secures historic victory at the womens' European Championships"

- «Social Security. Interview with Jorge Bravo. ‘The individual accounts system is better suited to the 21st century'»

- «Luís Montenegro has shifted from urgent reform to indefinite postponement»

- «Medical emergency. Ambulance service INEM yields to demands but the critical issue remains on the table»

- «Cinema. Ana Rocha de Sousa takes flight over Ukraine in the premiere of 'Asas'»

- «Elections in France. The decline of the centre-right opens the way for Le Pen and Mélenchon»

 

Jornal de Notícias:

- «Portugal on the route of South American gangs stealing luxury watches from tourists»

- «Parents' associations contest excessively long summer holidays»

- «Albufeira. Driver who ploughed into 16 people charged with manslaughter»

- «Nepal. Two Portuguese nationals among the hundreds missing in the mudslides»

- «Benfica. Fielding the same starting eleven to secure a place in the Europa League»

- «Braga. Vicens calls for character in the decisive match in Vienna»

- «Newspapers. Pergaminho calls on the Government to shed light on information leaks»

- «Europe. Commissioner says pensions must not place a burden on the younger generation»

 

Diário de Notícias:

- «Families see wages faltering and call on the ECB to put the brakes on interest rates»

- «Himalayas. Trail of death and destruction after flash floods in Nepal and Tibet»

- «Norway. Haakon, the modern and popular heir amid the royal family's turmoil»

- «Cinema. The art of talking to plants"

- «Europa League. Benfica coach Marco Silva confirms Circati in the squad and praises Palhinha»

- «Politics. Right wing rejects UN appeal to back down on restrictions regarding gender reassignment for minors»

- «Social Security. Employers press for a debate on pensions»

- «Recruitment. Applications to join the national guard (GNR) rise by 7.1%»

- «War. Iran and Oman reach agreement on the Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes. But what changes?"

 

Negócios:

- «Jury proposes Sacyr win for the second section of the high-speed rail line»

- «Interview. Jorge Bravo: ‘Projecting the value of pensions into individual accounts would be speculation'»

- «Economic outlook. Foreign investment recovers in the first half of the year"

- «Changes in the stock market. Prospectus now required only for issues exceeding 12 million»

- «Mass unemployment and biological weapons. Bill Gates' warnings about AI»

 

O Jornal Económico:

- «Each taxpayer will pay an extra €3,063 over 10 years»

- «Álvaro Santos Pereira (Bank of Portugal chief) makes his debut at Jackson Hole»

- «Apex Partners financial scandal in Brazil reaches Lisbon»

- «Memory chip prices soar by over 40%»

- «Mota-Engil posts record half-year profit of 74 million...»

- «…and signs contract for mining railway in the Congo»

- «Nuno Ribeiro da Silva to chair the energy service regulator (ERSE) advisory board»

- «Angola's sovereign wealth fund sees profits rise by 200%»

- «It is now sufficient to float 10% of a company's share capital to list on the stock market»

- «Foreign direct investment reached 6.7 billion»

 

 

 

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