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US President Donald Trump has said Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier could lose the right to sell its products on the American market. "No more Bombardier sales in the United States! Their product is not good enough!" the head of th

Finland has finished building a border barrier stretching roughly 200 kilometers along its frontier with Russia, the country's Interior Minister Mari Rantanen announced. Finland and Russia share a 1,344-kilometer land border, and constructi

An extraordinary incident took place on the evening of the last Sunday of August on the A-66 motorway near the village of Aldea del Cano in western Spain. According to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, a car carrying the boy's father, a famil

Two Russian Su-35S fighter jets collided in mid-air over the Kursk region, and both aircraft crashed. The incident was reported by a military blogger known as Fighterbomber on his Telegram channel.The fate of the pilots has not been officia

In a former military zone near the village of Prášily in the Klatovy region (Šumava), the chemical warfare agent mustard gas has reportedly been seeping into the soil for more than three years. This was confirmed by Deputy Prime Minister an

China's Ministry of Finance has announced a massive capital injection into the country's financial sector: three major state banks and five insurers will receive tens of billions of dollars in fresh capital. The plans were reported on Sunda

In the state elections in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party claimed victory, winning 43.8% of the vote. This state is considered one of Germany's poorest and oldest region

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has called it "strange" that the state hands out more than twenty billion crowns a year to private and church schools, even though churches have already received restitution compensation. The statement came

The European Commission has suspended payment of part of the subsidies granted to firms within the Agrofert holding, the Czech State Agricultural Intervention Fund (SZIF) has announced. The reason is an unfinished review of compliance with

Lawmakers from the Czech party ODS intend to push for a revision of the new law on the so-called "child certificate" — a register of convictions for serious crimes against children set to take effect in Czechia starting January 2027. The an

AmRest, the company behind KFC, Starbucks, Burger King and Pizza Hut restaurants in Czechia, posted an operating loss of €5.6 million (roughly 135 million crowns) for the first half of 2026. A year earlier, the company had reported a profit

A fresh opinion poll suggests that the ANO movement would win the upcoming elections to Prague's City Assembly. Seven political groupings could make it into the assembly altogether, including the ruling SPD with 5.4% of the vote and the Mot