Government leaves millions in wildfire aid undistributed
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Millions of euros designated for wildfire victims remained in a government drawer rather than reaching the families for whom the funds were earmarked. The disclosure arrives as a reminder that in the aftermath of a disaster, administrative friction can be as persistent as the flames.
Gonçalo Castelo Branco has become the first Portuguese national to join the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. A professor at the Karolinska Institutet, he will now help decide who receives the Nobel Prize, a task that involves a level of discretion usually reserved for the papacy.
Voters in the Brazilian diaspora have delivered their verdict, with Lula da Silva winning in Porto and Lisbon while Jair Bolsonaro took Faro. Back in Brazil, Flávio Bolsonaro leads the field into a second round; meanwhile, across the border in Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called a snap election for November 29.