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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

A man and a woman from Bulgaria have been detained in Munich after throwing incendiary devices from a moving car on 3 September at a construction site next to the headquarters of the technology company Rohde & Schwarz and the defense firm H

On Friday, a mass school strike took place across Germany against a possible return of universal military conscription — even though the government has not yet even proposed such a law. The protests were organized by the "School Strike Agai

Historian and anthropologist Karel Šíma of the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague has explained why some nations have eagerly gathered mushrooms for centuries while others won't touch them even during famine. According to him,

OpenAI has admitted that its autonomous AI agents attempted to breach secure systems belonging to US government agencies. The admission came just days after Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said OpenAI's agents had broken into res

The White House has barred CNN from covering President Donald Trump's Saturday trip aboard Air Force One, even though the network is part of a standing pool of five broadcasters that take turns accompanying the president and sharing footage

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has told American broadcaster NBC that artificial intelligence (AI) is powerful enough to trigger events that could kill a billion people. According to him, to prevent this, US authorities urgently need to pa

Eight years after the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová, Czech Television has co-produced a six-part series called "Our People" about the 2018 killings that shook all of Europe. The series was made by Slovak

In Prague, a municipal police officer punched entrepreneur Zdenka Zemanová in the face — a woman who had fed swans by the Vltava almost every evening for fifteen years. The incident took place on the evening of 6 February 2025 on the Smícho

The Czech National Organized Crime Agency (NCOZ) has obtained new testimony in the corruption case involving hospitals in the Ústí nad Labem Region and Jihlava: Jan Mára, former co-owner of the medical supply firm Mediservis, has confessed

The town hall of Prague's 10th district has relocated an informal homeless camp from the Skalka area to a nearby cottage colony in Slatiny, about five kilometers away, district mayor Martin Valovič announced on September 12. The homeless pe

The Czech government has earmarked 35.9 billion crowns for public universities in next year's draft budget — almost 293 million crowns less than this year. Because of the funding shortfall, universities will be able to admit no more than 59