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The post of national security adviser to the Czech prime minister has stood vacant since August, when diplomat Hynek Kmoníček stepped down from the role he had been appointed to in January by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš. Babiš himself and t

Residents of the town of Mirovice and surrounding villages in the Písek region (South Bohemia) have voted against plans to build wind turbines in a local referendum. The vote covered the cadastral areas of Mirovice, Bošice, Ohaří, Touškov,

Huge traffic jams built up this morning near Leoš Janáček Airport in Mošnov (Nový Jičín district) as thousands of people headed to NATO Days and the Czech Air Force Days. According to traffic police, queues on the roads started forming as e

Young Czechs under 30 are increasingly putting their money into stocks, ETFs and cryptocurrency, unwilling to let inflation eat away at their savings. According to banks and investment firms, Generation Z is starting to invest much earlier

In late August, the US approved a new drug called daraxonrasib for the treatment of pancreatic cancer — one of the most aggressive and hard-to-diagnose forms of cancer. The medicine is now undergoing accelerated review by the European Medic

On Friday, September 18, Prague's Municipal Court handed down a final verdict to well-known psychiatrist Jan Cimický — five years in prison for 39 offences committed over the course of forty years. Court documents shed light on why the doct

Diesel at Czech filling stations now costs more than 48 crowns per litre on average — higher than in spring, when authorities first introduced price regulation. That's according to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Ka

US President Donald Trump has signed into law a fresh package of sanctions against Russia — coming in the fifth year of Ukraine's resistance to Russian aggression, backed by the West. The legislation gives the American leader the authority

In its policy statement, the Czech government pledged to raise the starting salary for teachers with a university degree to 50,000 crowns, while Education Minister Marian Plaga stated the goal of bringing the average teacher's salary up to

Nearly a year after the attack on General Roman Hytka in a Brno bar, the attacker — Sergeant Martin Šejbal — is still serving in the Czech Army despite a final, legally binding conviction. This was confirmed by General Staff spokeswoman Zde

The number of children and young people requiring psychiatric hospitalization in Czechia has more than doubled over the past decade. This is according to an analysis by the Europe in Data portal: in 2024, nearly 67,000 people under the age

A new blood-testing method can detect dozens of different types of cancer at an early stage — not just one specific tumour, but many types of cancer at once. This was announced at a September round table at the Czech Chamber of Deputies by