La transition vers la 5G n'est pas un long fleuve tranquille pour Huawei. Le géant chinois des télécommunications, et un des plus grands équipementiers pour les réseaux 5G dans le monde, est progressivement banni de plusieurs nombreux pays pour des raisons de sécurité nationale. C'est le cas en France et tout récemment, du Portugal.

Au tour du Portugal d’interdire les équipements 5G de Huawei

Deza Powell and Paul Larochelle have criticised authorities for delays in transferring Adonis to an ICU

The parents of a 10-month-old baby who died on holiday in Portugal have said their lives have been destroyed.

Deza Powell and Paul Larochelle said they wanted answers from the Portuguese authorities after their son, Adonis, died of sepsis on 19 May, 48 hours after he was first treated in hospital.

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Results of extensive search for clues about missing girl at a remote Portuguese reservoir ‘need to be evaluated’

German prosecutors have said that a number of items recovered in searches last week which may be linked to Madeleine McCann’s disappearance have not yet been confirmed as evidence.

The searches, which took place in Portugal after requests from German investigators, involved a large section of the Barragem do Arade reservoir being cordoned off, in an area about 30 miles away from Praia da Luz, where Madeleine went missing in 2007.

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As drought beacomes the norm, creative solutions must be found to deal with a new, parched reality

In April, Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, suggested that severe drought would become “one of the central political and territorial debates of our country in the coming years”. That stark warning surely applies to southern Europe as a whole, as the prospect of another summer crisis looms, following a disastrously dry winter.

An absence of melting snow from the Alps has left Italy’s Po River as shallow as during last year’s searingly hot summer. In January and February, France recorded the highest number of rain-free days since records began, and water restrictions are in place in the Pyrénées-Orientales region. About 90% of mainland Portugal is suffering from drought, judged to be severe in one-fifth of the country. In Spain, from Catalonia to Andalucía, unseasonable heat has contributed to reservoirs drying up and a disastrous drop in olive oil production. By the middle of this month, southern Spain had received barely 30% of expected rainfall. As temperatures continue to rise, and Europe warms faster than the global average, drought across vast swathes of territory is simply becoming the norm.

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First as US national security adviser, then as secretary of state, Henry Kissinger intervened around the world during the 1970s, shaping events in China, Africa and the Middle East, with consequences that reverberate today

• How Kissinger’s ‘sordid’ diplomacy in Africa fuelled war in Angola and prolonged apartheid

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Officers spent three days scouring a remote reservoir after ‘certain tips’ were given to German prosecutors about the case

The latest searches in the hunt for Madeleine McCann appear to have drawn to a close in Portugal as briefing tents were taken down and heavy machinery was removed from the site.

Officers spent three days scouring a remote reservoir after “certain tips” were given to German prosecutors about the case.

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One explanation is that their behaviour is a reaction to past trauma inflicted on one member of the pod by humans

Recent accounts of “attacks” on vessels by orcas off the Iberian peninsula are challenging the way we expect the natural world to behave. Increasing in number since 2020, from northern Portugal to the strait of Gibraltar, these incidents suggest the need for a cetacean scene investigation team. On 4 May, in one of the most extreme events, orcas sank a yacht.

“There were two smaller orcas and one larger,” the skipper Werner Schaufelberger told German magazine Yacht . “The little ones shook the rudder at the back while the big one repeatedly backed up and rammed the boat with full force from the side.”

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Operation on banks of reservoir 30 miles from where Madeleine went missing in 2007 had been due to end on Wednesday

The first major search for Madeleine McCann in a decade is expected to be extended into a third day as Portuguese and German police continued to dig into the wooded banks of a reservoir in the Algarve.

The operation, 30 miles from where the then three-year-old went missing in 2007, had been due to end on Wednesday but sources close to the investigation indicated that a further day would be taken.

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Guardian journalist who was in Praia da Luz at the time reflects on the immediate aftermath of the three-year-old’s disappearance

On the May morning in 2007 that followed Madeleine McCann’s overnight disappearance from her parents’ holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, a smart resort in a superior part of Portugal’s Algarve, there remained a quiet confidence she would be found in short order.

The staff at the Mark Warner Ocean Club resort, where Gerry and Kate McCann, both doctors, had been enjoying the last couple of days of a week’s break, were scouring the beaches with the help of the locals, but everyone was reluctant to believe that a crime could have been committed here of all places.

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