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Long queues formed on a highway in China's Anhui province during the holidays, as a surge of drivers rushed to charge their electric cars. Mobile charging road trains — essentially giant power banks on wheels — came to the rescue, the Assoc

Mass protests swept France on Tuesday. According to the lycée students’ union, around 450,000 people took part in the demonstrations, including 100,000 in Paris, while the Interior Ministry put the nationwide figure at 256,000, with 56,000

According to the British newspaper The Sun, Russian President Vladimir Putin is considering putting General Sergei Surovikin back in command of forces in Ukraine. Western military figures call him “General Armageddon” for the brutal reputat

Czech Public Television (ČT) officially confirmed on Tuesday, October 6, that it will not broadcast next year's Eurovision Song Contest. The 2027 contest, to be held in Burgas, Bulgaria, will go ahead without Czech participation — a decisio

In the Czech city of Brno, a woman wearing headphones failed to hear the siren of an approaching ambulance and ran straight out in front of a moving car. The incident happened last week at a pedestrian crossing on Kolištĕ street near Moravs

In South Moravia, in the Blansko district, police are investigating a fight between children that took place outside the walls of a local school. One of those involved, a girl, was injured, and paramedics took her to hospital for examinatio

The State Agricultural Intervention Fund (SZIF) has denied companies belonging to Prime Minister Andrej Babiš's Agrofert holding subsidies worth around 68 million crowns. According to the fund, all eight applications from the group's compan

Automaker Škoda Auto has announced the price of the base version of its new electric car, the Epiq, on the Czech market. The Epiq 35 variant will cost buyers from 619,000 crowns — the most affordable option in the new electric crossover lin

Near the main railway station in Brno, two men, aged 32 and 33, repeatedly shouted the Nazi slogan “Sieg Heil” and raised their arms in the Nazi salute. The incident was reported by the city police.A municipal police patrol was driving past

Czech Television (ČT) has announced a cost-cutting programme for next year: the broadcaster plans to cut around a hundred jobs, close or scale back ten to twelve programmes, and skip the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time. Programmi

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said on the opening day of an international industrial fair in Brno that the EU's CO2 emissions trading system is inflicting colossal damage on Europe, costing Czech industry tens of billions of crowns ever

Former US President Bill Clinton recorded a video message for Czech Radio in which he remembered his friend, former Czech President Vaclav Havel. Havel would have turned 90 on 5 October 2026, and Clinton called him one of the most inspiring