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João Pinho de Almeida

Portuguese jurist and politician

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    Right-wing parties push to charge non-resident foreigners for Portugal's health service

    Portugal's parliament debated bills from the PSD, CDS-PP and Chega on Thursday, 15 October, with votes set for Friday morning. The PS and other opposition parties accused the right of blaming migrants for problems in the health service.

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A Peshawar school roof collapses

Zelensky resumes refinery strikes as Peshawar school collapse kills dozens of children

Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine has resumed strikes on Russian refineries after a roughly three-day US-requested pause, as Kyiv counted more than 850 Shahed drones between midnight and 9am on 15 October. In Peshawar, a private-school roof collapsed onto classrooms, killing at least 32 children and a teacher in the latest hospital count.

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The war in Ukraine and its limits

Findings add EU political positions and Zelenskyy's framing of the strike resumption, but no new discrete aid package, sanction or ceasefire step.

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