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An employee of the Brno branch of the Czech National Bank (ČNB) secretly smuggled cash out of the vault in the bank's building on Rooseveltova Street for nearly a year, later depositing the stolen funds into ordinary commercial banks. Accor

Firefighting specialists Martin Kavka and Jakub Kozák have released a new podcast dedicated to choosing the right firefighting tactics — specifically, the use of various types of fire hoses and high-pressure systems.A significant part of th

The town of Mělník in the Central Bohemian Region runs an asylum house, a night shelter and a low-threshold day centre that support people who have found themselves homeless in a crisis situation. According to Veronika Mandincová, head of t

Football club Zlín has set an unenviable record in the Czech first league — after eight rounds, the team remains without a single point, something that has never happened to any club in the history of the independent Czech championship. Yet

Czechia has no uniform standards for cleaning up contaminated sites — each case is assessed individually, depending on the concentration of pollutants, and the local geology and hydrogeology. This was explained by an expert on contaminated

The Nature and Landscape Protection Agency has proposed keeping the core area of the Maštale nature reserve in the Chrudim region under strict protection as a nature reserve, while the surrounding buffer zone would be shifted to a more rela

American company Sceye has completed a record-breaking test flight of its uncrewed stratospheric platform HAPS (High-Altitude Platform Systems) — a helium airship that operates at an altitude of roughly 20 kilometers. The aircraft launched

During a Czech first-league football match between Teplice and Prague's Slavia, the floodlights suddenly went out at the Na Stínadlech stadium. Play had to be suspended for at least fifteen minutes, while more than thirteen thousand fans in

US energy company Thea Energy has unveiled its design for the Helios fusion power plant, intended to feed a steady 400 megawatts of electricity into the grid. The project is built around a compact stellarator that combines software-controll

Slovakia's extra-parliamentary movement Republika is gaining popularity at the expense of the ruling Smer party led by Prime Minister Robert Fico. According to pollsters, a portion of those who voted for Smer in 2023 (when the party won 681

US President Donald Trump announced at the awards ceremony for the Irish Open that he intends to lift tariffs on Irish whiskey. He said virtually everyone had been lobbying him on the issue, including several professional golfers."Everybody

Hockey club Litvínov held a ceremonial send-off for its long-time captain Radek Trávníček. A native of Děčín, he spent his entire Czech Extraliga career with the North Bohemian club, playing a record 1,076 matches over 21 seasons.Six years