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A small Cessna 185 aircraft lost contact with air traffic controllers while flying over Slovak territory. Residents of the Kysuce region in the country's northwest heard a loud roar — it was Czech Gripen fighter jets, which guard Slovak air

Slovakia's government under Prime Minister Robert Fico is required to present parliament with a deficit-free budget proposal within the coming weeks — a mandate set out in the constitutional law on budgetary responsibility after national de

According to the International Road Transport Union (IRU), Europe is currently short of more than 502,000 professional drivers, and around 660,000 more are expected to retire by 2030 — roughly a fifth of the continent's entire driving workf

CIA Director John Ratcliffe has arrived in Moscow for the first time since taking office, CBS News reports. According to the broadcaster, he had previously maintained contact with his Russian intelligence counterparts but had not travelled

The Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament is dragging out a vote on an amendment to the country's fiscal rules, with the opposition resorting to obstruction tactics even at the stage of approving the meeting's agenda. At issue is a la

Czech President Petr Pavel told ambassadors gathered at Prague Castle that the country must present a single, unified foreign policy abroad — not one crafted by the government and another by the head of state. According to him, an internal

Police in the South Bohemian Region have detained a 21-year-old courier who arrived to collect yet another cash payment from a victim of investment fraud. According to police, the young man has been charged with complicity in fraud and has

Slovak police have thwarted preparations for an attack on a factory producing unmanned aerial systems — the suspects had planned to set the site ablaze using homemade napalm. The news was reported by Slovak police on their Facebook page.Acc

Prosecutors have filed charges against programmer Tomáš Jiříkovský, his lawyer Karim Tic, former ODS Justice Minister Pavel Blažek, and his deputy Radomír Daňhel in the high-profile case involving bitcoins donated to the Czech Ministry of J

On Tuesday afternoon in Prague, a bus braked sharply on Vídeňská Street near the junction with U Krčské nádraží Street, causing several passengers to fall inside the vehicle. Police reported the incident on the social network X.“Several pas

Former Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Army Karel Řehka has announced his candidacy for the Senate in elections that will be held alongside municipal elections on October 9–10. The 51-year-old general is running as an independent ca

Former Czech Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek has sharply criticised the government's fiscal policy, saying that economic growth — which should be painlessly delivering tens of billions of crowns in extra revenue to the state budget and s