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Sunlit Alentejo hillside with olive trees under a hot sky — IPMA's Saturday outlook calls 35°C in the Alentejo Sun-Tue under a North African air mass.

IPMA Forecasts 35°C in the Alentejo and Tejo Valley From Sunday Through Tuesday as a North African Air Mass Drives the First Sustained Heat Spell of 2026 — DGS Reissues the Mid-Day Sun Advisory and Hydration Note Into the Long Weekend

IPMA's Saturday-evening outlook calls 35°C across the Alentejo and Tejo Valley between Sunday and Tuesday as a North African air mass with Saharan dust drives mainland Portugal's first sustained heat spell of 2026 — DGS reissues the hydration and mid-day sun advisory ahead of the long weekend.
The Portugal Brief
Interior of a brightly-lit supermarket aisle with stocked grocery shelves — Mercadona confirms €150M and twelve new Portuguese stores for 2026.

Mercadona Commits €150 Million and Twelve New Portuguese Stores for 2026 — Algarve and Beja Districts Debut at Portimão, Faro and the Beja Retail Park as the Spanish Chain Targets 81 Outlets by Year-End

Mercadona has detailed a €150 million Portuguese investment that opens twelve new stores in 2026, drops the brand into the Algarve and Beja districts for the first time and takes the chain's national footprint to 81 outlets covering 16 of 18 mainland districts.
The Portugal Brief
Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa Reclassifies Former SEF Border Director's Sentence to Abuso de Poder and Trims the Term to One Year and Ten Months — Ihor Homeniuk Case File Reopens the Justice Conversation on Lisbon Airport Detention

Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa Reclassifies Former SEF Border Director's Sentence to Abuso de Poder and Trims the Term to One Year and Ten Months — Ihor Homeniuk Case File Reopens the Justice Conversation on Lisbon Airport Detention

The Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa has reclassified former SEF Borders director António Sérgio Henriques's conviction from denegação de justiça to abuso de poder, trimming his sentence from 2.5 years suspended to one year and ten months — the latest Ihor Homeniuk case footnote in the SEF-AIMA reset.
The Portugal Brief