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The Czech national football team has a new forward: 23-year-old Rangers striker Ryan Naderi has decided to play for Czechia's national team, the Czech Football Association announced. The forward was born in Germany and has a Czech mother an

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said in a Tuesday interview with Deník.cz that if Russia attacked one of the Baltic states, Czechia would send two mechanized brigades — from Prostějov and Tábor — under Article 5 of the NATO treaty. He sai

Russian aircraft dropped a quarter-tonne bomb on a school building in Sumy, in northern Ukraine, on Tuesday afternoon, the head of the regional military administration, Serhii Kryvosheienko, said on his Telegram channel. Pupils in grades on

Fresh footage from webcams near the Matterhorn shows that by late September the famous peak on the border between Switzerland and Italy has lost almost all of its snow cover. White patches remain only on the mountain's highest sections and

On Tuesday morning in the Slovak village of Staškov, in the Čadca district, a student at the local school attacked classmates and teachers with a knife. According to police, 61-year-old teacher Božena Mariaková died of her injuries, another

The Czech Motorists party (Motoristé sobě) posted a pre-election video on social media in which officials rise up against “pirate” and “green” bureaucrats demanding endless stamps and permits, ending with the figure of one such official — a

The United Kingdom has offered nine European countries — Finland, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden — protection under its national nuclear umbrella as part of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JE

The brand's last factory in the regionShoemaker Bata is shutting down production at its factory in the Czech village of Dolní Němčí, Moravia — according to the company itself, this was the last operating Bata plant in all of Central Europe.

The Trade Union of State Bodies and Organizations (OSSOO) has sharply criticized Prime Minister Andrej Babiš's government plan to cut a tenth of the staff at Czech state institutions. According to available information, even government mini

The High Court in Olomouc has upheld a 12-year prison sentence for a man named Tomi, who in September last year stabbed a woman in the chest in the center of Brno after she rejected him in the women's restroom of one of the buildings. The b

Czech national team defender Vladimír Coufal will not play against England on Tuesday at Eden Stadium in Prague — coach Santi Denia left him out of the squad. Talk of the 34-year-old's absence started on Monday, when he skipped the open par

Czechia remains one of the EU countries with the lowest flu vaccination rate — fewer than 10% of the population get a shot — even though the annual epidemics cost the economy billions of crowns and send serious cases, including fatalities a