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Trump rejects Iran's plan for the straitUS President Donald Trump said he had rejected Iran's plan for the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, which was passed to Qatari mediators during the UN General Assembly session currently un

A court in the Czech Republic has sentenced a man to seven years in prison for years of sexual abuse against his underage stepdaughter. According to the court, the stepfather had been molesting the girl since the onset of her adolescence. T

In the Czech town of Přerov, a tractor pulling a trailer overturned during a tractor parade, injuring eleven people. The accident happened at around 3:30 p.m., and police say roughly ten participants in the event were injured and handed ove

Michal Koudelka, head of the Czech Security Information Service (BIS), and other heads of European intelligence agencies have warned that Russia could test NATO's resilience within months rather than years — potentially even through a limit

The trade union representing Czech security forces has rejected the government's announced pay rise for police officers, firefighters, customs officers and prison service staff — according to the union, the increase will amount to 2,600–2,9

In South Bohemia, a train dragged a cyclist across a railway crossing: the woman apparently failed to notice the warning signal and rode onto the tracks just as a train was passing. The train caught the rear wheel of her bicycle, and she su

The Ukrainian charity Come Back Alive, which has been supporting the Ukrainian army since 2014, expects Russian drone strikes on Ukraine's critical infrastructure to intensify as the cold weather sets in. Representatives of the organisation

The chairman of the Prague High Court, Dörfl, held talks with Justice Minister Jeroným Tejc over Prime Minister Andrej Babiš's high-profile statements, in which he has repeatedly questioned the independence of the Czech judiciary in recent

Six-year-old Lian Yunsi from the Chinese city of Chengdu has twice broken the women's average-time record for solving a 3×3 Rubik's Cube — both times at official tournaments held under the World Cube Association, one in Wuhan and the other

Former head coach of the Czech national football team Ivan Hašek has said that the leadership of Czech football — first and foremost Pavel Nedvěd, general manager of the national teams — got in the way of his work. He said this in an interv

A bakery on Lafayette Street in New York sells sourdough rye bread made from just four ingredients: water, flour, salt and time. A whole loaf, weighing about a kilogram and a half, costs customers nearly $60, with a half loaf going for $30

In mid-September, a woman in the Czech Republic received a call from someone posing as a bank employee, who told her that someone had allegedly tried to take out a credit card in her name, meaning her banking identification may have been co