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Axel Rudakubana, 20, who is serving a sentence for murdering three girls in the English town of Southport, has appeared in court again — this time facing charges of attacking prison officers. According to The Telegraph, in May 2025 he threw

The right to use the name and legacy of former Czech President Václav Havel will now belong to the Prague City Library. This was announced on Monday by the politician's widow, Dagmar Havlová, who had earlier stripped this license from the o

Police are investigating the origin of large sums of money held in the accounts of a Green Party candidate in Prague 3, a well-known campaigner against illegal advertising who goes by the surname Jan. According to the website Odkryto.cz, se

Russia has wrapped up its State Duma elections, held against the backdrop of the largest drone attack on Moscow since the war began, along with a string of absurd episodes along the way. According to preliminary figures from the election co

From 1 November, Czechia will cut pensions for another group of former officials of the communist regime — this time affecting mid-level party functionaries and officers of the StB state security service. The lists of affected individuals w

Ramzan Kadyrov has won Chechnya's regional leadership election, securing 99.85% of the vote after all ballots were counted. The news agency Interfax reported the result, citing figures from the Central Election Commission's online voting sy

More and more children and teenagers in Czechia are refusing to take part in sports competitions and matches — the reason being fear of losing and a decline in psychological resilience. That's according to a survey by the Czech Sports Union

Hamburgers — long considered an affordable treat for people of all income levels — are getting rapidly more expensive in the United States. According to The Washington Post, it's not just diners at upscale restaurants who are feeling the pi

Global sea levels are rising at a record pace: while the average annual increase between 2014 and 2023 was 4.7 millimeters, in 2024 it jumped to 5.9 millimeters. This is according to a special report by UN Secretary-General António Guterres

On the evening of Monday, September 7, a shocking incident took place in a small village in the Karlovy Vary Region: a man poured petrol over a house he had once shared with his wife and set it alight. At the time of the arson, a woman who

Mobile operator O2 has been hit by a widespread outage affecting both mobile and broadband internet services — the first complaints from customers began rolling in shortly before 9 a.m. By 10 a.m., DownDetector, a service that tracks outage

In Slovakia, a female bear attacked a flock of sheep penned on a farm — and the attack was caught on camera by Deputy Environment Minister Filip Kuffa, who later shared the footage. The video shows the sheep panicking and scattering around