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On Friday evening at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest, Ukraine beat hosts Hungary 1-0 in a Nations League match, but the game will be remembered for more than the goal: the Ukrainian anthem was met with loud booing even before kickoff, and stop

Forty-year-old Barbora Strýcová carried her emotions from the court to the Czech team's captain's bench: before the Billie Jean King Cup final against Ukraine in Shenzhen, China, she could barely hold back tears during the anthem, and after

Fico Says Early Elections Could Come in JanuarySlovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has acknowledged that early parliamentary elections could be held as soon as January 2026 — a possible way out of the crisis within the ruling coalition sparke

The Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament has banned journalist Lukáš Valášek from entering the building for three months after he filmed SPD deputy chairman Radim Fiala in an area where filming is prohibited. Shortly before that, Pri

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said in his Sunday video address on social media that he is receiving thousands of identical letters demanding that the Ministry of the Environment be taken away from the Motoristé party, and that he physic

At a hospital in the town of Stod near Plzeň, nurses on the long-term care ward, where mostly elderly patients are treated, spent an entire shift dressed in 1984-style uniforms — blue dresses and white starched aprons. The idea was proposed

Slovak Prime Minister and leader of the Smer party Robert Fico said on Sunday, in an interview on the TA3 television channel, that military neutrality would suit Slovakia better, and voiced doubt that NATO allies would actually come to the

Czech Finance Minister Alena Schillerová has said the country cannot avoid raising some taxes, though she ruled out a return to the old system of calculating income tax known as the "super-gross wage." She made the comments on Czech Televis

In the village of Kamenný Újezd near Nýřany in the Pilsen Region, a man stabbed himself in the stomach during a Roma celebration. The incident took place shortly before 10 p.m., and the injured 47-year-old man, who suffered severe injuries,

Last Sunday's election in Berlin saw nearly four in ten voters back parties that, in one way or another, echo the darker pages of German history. Chief among them is the pro-Russian AfD, founded in 2013: the party won convincingly in two Ge

Forester Tibor Földes used a thermal imaging camera to film 26 bears at the same time in a cornfield near the Slovak village of Očová — an unprecedented gathering of predators for the area. He shot the footage in recent days and posted it o

Russian aerial bombs and strike drones have turned the frontline town of Oskil in Ukraine's Kharkiv region into a zone where residents have nowhere left to return to: the local school, where just a year ago children were training in footbal