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Wednesday turned out to be one of the deadliest days on Czech roads in recent times: according to police statistics, as of 2:30 pm, six people had died in accidents across various regions of the country.Morning tragedies in several regionsT

On Wednesday at 11:08, a Russian military helicopter briefly entered Polish airspace north of the town of Braniewo, according to the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces. The helicopter, which had flown in from the Kaliningrad reg

A former Croatia national team striker shared his thoughts on the state of Czech football ahead of a new qualifying campaign match, with both sides now led by new coaches — Spaniard Ivan Hašek's successor... actually, Luis de la Fuente-styl

The Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament has passed an amendment to the law that scraps the automatic annual increase in road toll (vignette) prices. The annual sticker will remain at 2,570 crowns, the monthly one at 480 crowns, the

The Czech Ministry of Finance does not plan to switch public broadcasters over to state budget funding from 1 January 2026, as the government had originally promised. According to Finance Minister Alena Schillerová (ANO), the relevant law s

Starting January 2026, the average pension in Czechia will rise by 304 crowns — even though back in March, Labour and Social Affairs Minister Marian Jurečka called a 300-crown increase "too small" on Czech television. At the time, he said h

Inside the Czech governing movement ANO, internal anxiety is mounting over the sharp rise in prices for basic goods and services — fuel, electricity, gas and food. While Deputy Prime Minister Karel Havlíček publicly acknowledges the approac

Czech Parliament deputy Jiří Richter of the ANO party spent five years renting a municipal flat from the company Chomutovská bytová — despite being chairman of its supervisory board himself. The story was reported by Deník N and concerns a

A mass outbreak of an unidentified infection has struck Masaryk Primary School in Prague's Újezd nad Lesy district (Prague 21). According to Prague's public health authority, by Tuesday evening the number of affected people had reached 250,

Airfield cameras in the US state of Utah captured the moment a light aircraft, a Cirrus SR22, crashed into Utah Lake while on approach for landing. According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the pilot and a passenger — wh

At the Senda Verde wildlife shelter in Bolivia lives a cat named Tigrino, who has unexpectedly turned out to belong to a species of wild feline previously unknown to science. The discovery was made by an international team of researchers ba

A fire broke out in a private house in the village of Velké Svatoňovice in the Hradec Králové Region, requiring five fire crews to bring it under control. According to the Hradec Králové Region fire service, no one was injured.Upon arrival,