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A refrigeration-unit explosion at Docapesca's ice factory vented ammonia during the opening of the São Sebastião fishing festival at the Port of Leixões late Friday, forcing about 1,000 people out and drawing 54 emergency operatives before the leak was controlled overnight.

President Seguro has enacted the legislative authorisation letting the government merge 13 welfare payments — from the Social Insertion Income to several pensions — into one means-tested Single Social Benefit, with a contested work requirement and a 120-day window to legislate.