What Portugal searched for on 26 October 2026

Most searched in the 24 hours to 12:20: amadora (20K+), crise da habitação em portugal (10K+), roubo (10K+), al-nassr - al wasl (5K+), votação brasil (2K+), javali (2K+).

• amadora20K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 05:02

  On Thursday, 29 October, diagnostic and therapeutic staff at Amadora-Sintra hospital (Hospital Fernando Fonseca), the people who carry out X-rays, lab tests, physiotherapy and other examinations, are striking again. The STSS union warns that scheduled tests may be cancelled, along with the doctor's appointments and planned operations that depend on them. Urgent cases and cancer care must be covered by minimum services.

  This is the third strike since 30 September. The hospital and the union agreed that staff on individual employment contracts could move to the collective agreement for state hospitals, with their length of service recognised and back pay for previous years, but the SNS central administration (ACSS) blocked the agreement. From 11:00 to 14:00 the strikers will gather outside the Ministry of Health. If you have a test or a planned operation at this hospital on 29 October, it is best to ring ahead and check whether it will go ahead.

  Searches for Amadora today also turn up other local news: a driver died of cardiac arrest at the wheel with their daughter in the car, and a person with a gunshot wound was taken to hospital. We do not know which of these stories caused the spike in searches.

  Source: healthnews.pt

  

• crise da habitação em portugal10K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 05:02

  The 2027 draft budget sets aside €1,061 million for Construir Portugal, the government's housing programme. That is €1,844 million, or 63.5%, less than in 2026, when €2,905 million was allocated. Jornal de Notícias worked out the figures from the draft budget, and CNN Portugal and Notícias ao Minuto reported them too. Construir Portugal is the government's main housing plan: building and renovating public housing, support for local councils, and affordable homes.

  The funding is falling because the PRR (Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência), the EU recovery plan that paid for most of this construction, is coming to an end. Local councils will also have less: their investment in all areas, not just housing, will fall by 29.4%, to €3,474.5 million. The news comes as people in Lisbon, Porto and other cities protest against housing costs.

  Parliament holds the first-reading vote on the draft budget on Wednesday, 28 October, and the final vote on 24 November, so the figures may still change. Details in our story The 2027 budget gives Construir Portugal €1.06 billion instead of €2.9 billion.

  

• ponte 25 de abril1K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 05:02

  A slow convoy of around a hundred private ambulances that was due to cross the 25 de Abril bridge from Almada to Lisbon today, 26 October, will not take place. On Sunday evening the Liga Portuguesa de Ambulâncias (Portuguese Ambulance League) called off the protest, so it will cause no queues on the bridge or on the way into the city.

  The protest was called off because the government backed down. The Ministry of Health announced that companies that take SNS patients to dialysis, chemotherapy, physiotherapy and appointments will get fuel support under decree 199/2026 of 7 October, the same support that taxis and firefighters already receive. The ministry has not yet said how much the support will be or when it will start. The league holds its first meeting with the government today.

  For patients, this means that the transport the companies had threatened to stop will continue. In 2025 the SNS ordered more than four million such journeys, about half of them carried out by private companies. More in our story Private patient transport companies to get fuel support.

  Source: observador.pt

  

• greve1K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 05:02

  Lisbon metro staff are striking from 5:00 to 10:00 on Wednesday, 28 October, and Friday, 30 October. On 25 October an arbitration tribunal set minimum services: from 7:00 to 10:00 trains will run on all four lines, but only a quarter of the usual number — four on the blue and yellow lines, three on the green and two on the red. From 5:00 to 7:00 there will be no trains at all; after 10:00 the metro runs as normal.

  On strike mornings only the following stations will be open; you cannot board at any others. Blue line: Reboleira, Pontinha, Colégio Militar, Jardim Zoológico, Praça de Espanha, São Sebastião, Marquês de Pombal, Baixa-Chiado, Terreiro do Paço, Santa Apolónia. Yellow: Odivelas, Campo Grande, Cidade Universitária, Entre Campos, Saldanha, Rato. Green: Telheiras, Alameda, Rossio, Baixa-Chiado, Cais do Sodré. Red: Aeroporto, Oriente, Alameda, Saldanha, São Sebastião.

  On Friday, 30 October, ticket inspectors, ticket office staff and conductors at CP (Comboios de Portugal, the railway) are also on strike, and the union warns that suburban services may be disrupted the day before and the day after as well. Commuters who take a suburban train and then change to the metro could be left without either on Friday morning. More in our story CP strikes on 30 October.

  Source: observador.pt

  

• roubo10K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 05:02

  In Mafra, five young men threatened two teenagers with rocks and paving stones and robbed them; the GNR (Guarda Nacional Republicana, the National Republican Guard) arrested one of the attackers, an 18-year-old.

  Source: jn.pt

• al-nassr - al wasl5K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 05:02

  The AFC Champions League match between Cristiano Ronaldo's Al-Nassr and Rui Vitória's Al-Wasl, scheduled for 26 October in Riyadh, has been postponed indefinitely: according to press reports, the UAE side was unable to fly to Saudi Arabia, where the Houthis have been firing on airports in recent weeks

  Source: cnnportugal.iol.pt

• votação brasil · brasil · quem ganhou as eleições no brasil · resultados das eleições · apuração das eleições 2026 · euro real · ibovespa · polymarket · euro hoje · euro hoje real50K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 05:02

  Lula da Silva has narrowly beaten Flávio Bolsonaro in the second round of Brazil's presidential election to win re-election; Brazilians in Portugal voted too, with Lula ahead in Lisbon and Porto and Bolsonaro ahead in Faro

  Source: rtp.pt

• javali2K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 05:02

  In Canas de Senhorim, in the municipality of Nelas, a 22-year-old motorcyclist was killed after crashing into a wild boar

  Source: cmjornal.pt

• anticiclone2K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 05:02

  An anticyclone will keep the weather dry until the end of October: Tuesday the 27th will be cooler, at 16–⁠23 degrees, with light rain possible in the north-west; from Thursday it warms up again, and on Friday and Saturday the 31st temperatures will reach 28–⁠29 degrees in Leiria and Santarém, 9 degrees above normal

  Source: tempo.pt

• moeve1K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 05:02

  Galp and Spain's Moeve have ended talks on merging their refining and petrol station businesses: there will be no deal, and the Sines refinery stays with Galp

  Source: observador.pt