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Hungary's Prosecutor General's Office on Tuesday asked parliamentary leadership to suspend the immunity of Prime Minister Péter Magyar. The request stems from the reopening of a criminal case related to theft, the Hungarian news portal inde

On Tuesday, September 22, the Czech National Bank (CNB) began exchanging commemorative 5,000-koruna banknotes issued to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the National Bank of Czechoslovakia. But by the very same day, the notes h

On the afternoon of September 20, Czech citizen Michal Plaiminek arrived at Lenin's Mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow carrying a placard written in English which, according to Russia's Interfax news agency, was intended to discredit the Rus

In August, Czechia recorded the sharpest rise in diesel prices among all European Union countries, according to data from the EU's statistical office, Eurostat.Bulgaria came in second, with diesel prices climbing by 13.5%, followed by Luxem

A scandal is brewing in the northern Czech town of Ralsko around Mayor Miloslav Tuma of the ANO movement: he sold a large parcel of municipal land to local businessman Vladimír Ržíma, and shortly afterward bought housing from the same busin

Czech President Petr Pavel and Environment Minister Petr Macinka met over breakfast in New York, where both are attending this week's UN General Assembly sessions. It was the first public contact between the two politicians after a prolonge

Jiří Reichl, a member of the Czech parliament and leader of the PRO party, claims he knows how to find 400 billion crowns to reduce the budget deficit. He outlined his plan in an interview with the TV channel XTV on September 13, and the vi

Jan Husbauer, leader of the ANO party's Prague list, has proposed restricting alcohol sales in the capital: after ten in the evening, spirits and beer would only be available in bars and restaurants — not in shops and kiosks. According to h

US President Donald Trump will meet on Tuesday at UN headquarters with eleven heads of state and government, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. One o

A large tanker collided with a Chinese fishing vessel off the coast of Singapore last Thursday. According to Reuters, the incident took place on one of the busiest shipping routes in the world, though no injuries were reported.The cargo tan

The Czech Bar Association, together with the Union of Judges, has criticized Prime Minister Andrej Babiš for making inappropriate remarks about the country's judicial system. The statement was released in an official announcement from the a

In Turkey, a 15-year-old vocational school student opened fire outside the Ince Uzmezova Anatolian Vocational and Technical High School, wounding eleven of his classmates. The incident took place at around eight o'clock local time (seven a.