Alison Roberts
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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Temperatures as high as 110 degrees are foreseen in Portugal's interior, with more than half the country at maximum fire risk by Tuesday.
With nighttime temperatures in many areas stuck above 70 degrees in a country where most homes lack air conditioning, health officials are on high alert.
Authorities are appealing to people not to observe the St.
John's Eve tradition on August 23rd of releasing hot air balloons with open flames.
Neighbouring Spain and France are also expecting unusually high temperatures, though meteorologists dismiss suggestions these could go up to 120 degrees.
For NPR News, I'm Alison Roberts in Lisbon.
Wait, this is true?
Yes, of course, this story has been all over the media, both here and in France.
It was on Tuesday, quite late in the day, about 7pm, that these two boys, aged four and five, as it later transpired, were found by the side of a road between two medium-sized towns about 100km south of Lisbon by a lone driver.
He was a baker, lived locally, and he said that they were crying.
And it later transpired, the children spent...
several hours with him and his wife and his elderly mother, as they called police, back at his bakery where they were looked after.
And it turned out that they said that they had been blindfolded and left in the woods and were told that they were to find a toy, that they were playing a game.
And when they
took off the blindfolds, they found that their mother and her partner, her companion, had disappeared.
So when they were found, they were crying.
They seemed to have been pretty well looked after by the couple and their mother.
She actually said, the elderly mother, she said that there were no signs of their having been mistreated.
They were later taken to hospital and then a court ordered that they should be placed temporarily with a foster mother.
So the couple in the meantime, the couple who had abandoned them were on Thursday detained.
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