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US President Donald Trump has announced the immediate revocation of White House access for three media outlets at once — CNN, MSNBC (which, he claims, recently changed its name due to plummeting ratings and public trust) and Politico. Trump

Lithuanian border guards detained a Russian citizen, believed to be around 60 years old, near the town of Pagėgiai after he swam across the Nemunas River from Russia's Kaliningrad region. The incident was confirmed by Lithuanian border serv

Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI assistant, has secretly built its own biology lab to run real-world scientific experiments. News of the facility's existence broke via Reuters, which cited two people familiar with the matter. Onl

An international team of polar scientists has analysed decades of satellite data on the state of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and reached a troubling conclusion: over the period of observation, these regions have lost roughly 11.3

Czech President Petr Pavel and Foreign Minister Ondřej Macinka publicly shook hands for the first time in a long while, at a reception held for a visiting Jordanian delegation. The authenticity of the photograph was confirmed by Foreign Min

Saudi Arabia will stop oil deliveries to all European buyers starting next month, Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the matter. European clients typically receive Saudi crude under long-term contracts that guarantee stable mon

A stampede broke out on Friday in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, on the north coast of Africa, as authorities began relocating migrants from local beaches. Police fired warning shots into the air, and several people were reportedly injured.

A dangerous incident occurred on Thursday at a railway crossing near Třinec, when an elderly woman on a moped got stuck between two lowered barriers just a couple of metres from a passing train. The moment was caught on camera and later sha

Pojišťovna VZP, the commercial subsidiary of the Czech Republic's largest health insurer VZP, drew up generous severance deals — so-called "golden parachutes" — for seven employees shortly before its long-serving director was dismissed. Thi

Czech JAS-39 Gripen fighter jets from the Pardubice air base scrambled on Thursday evening to monitor airspace near Poland's eastern border. According to the Czech Army, the alert was triggered by drone activity in western Ukraine."Combat m

On Friday, at around 4:00 p.m., a plastic waste recycling plant caught fire at a landfill site in the village of Rýnholec in the Rakovník district. According to Tereza Sýkorová Flígrová, spokeswoman for the Central Bohemian Region's fire br

The 18-year-old son of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, Adam, embarrassed himself in public while delivering a prepared speech on the situation in the republic ahead of Russia's State Duma elections. Footage of the moment was published on X b