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Germany risks being drawn into an armed conflict with Russia — that warning was sounded at a public hearing of the parliamentary committee overseeing Germany's intelligence services. It came from Jäger, head of Germany's Federal Intelligenc
The Czech Ministry of Finance set a price cap for the weekend of 45.97 crowns a litre for petrol and 48.54 crowns a litre for diesel. In practice, fuel at the pumps was even cheaper — petrol almost 70 hellers and diesel more than 50 hellers
The Prague prosecutor's office has confirmed that most of the blame for the crash at I. P. Pavlov Square lies with local politician Turek: he pulled out of a turning lane straight into the intersection in his Mercedes and collided with a Šk
Czech President Petr Pavel failed to show up for the recent election, even though he had previously publicly urged citizens to make sure they went to the polls. His decision to skip the vote in the small municipality where he is registered
France's presidential election will take place in April 2027, but all of Europe is already talking about it: according to polls, the best chance of winning belongs to Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally party. Her possible
A co-pilot for the airline FlyDubai attacked the flight's captain with an axe during a flight to Tel Aviv and, investigators found, planned to fly the plane and its 174 passengers into the terminal building at Ben Gurion Airport. The suspec
Czechia is piling up debt at a record pace: over the past year, ordinary people, companies and the state itself have all been borrowing more. Household debt rose 16% to 4.4 trillion koruna in the first half of the year, according to the Cze
The district prosecutor's office in Prague 2 says that in July, Motoristé MP Filip Turek met almost every element of a criminal offence — causing bodily harm through negligence — in a crash at I. P. Pavlova Square in Prague. No criminal cas
The ANO movement has announced its goal for the Czech local elections of 2026: to match the result from four years ago, when the party won a majority of mayoral posts in the country's major cities. This was stated by ANO's first deputy chai
Today, 5 October, Václav Havel would have turned 90 — the leading Czech playwright, dissident, and first president of post-socialist Czechoslovakia and later Czechia. Almost fifteen years have passed since his death, and an entire generatio
A premium SMS scam is still active in Czechia, quietly draining money from thousands of subscribers for years. A check of phone numbers found that members of parliament were among the victims too: at least 22 MPs were paying 99 crowns a wee
The right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has polled 30% support for the first time in its history, while the ruling Christian Democratic bloc CDU/CSU of Chancellor Friedrich Merz has slumped to a historic low of 18%. These are the