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An explosion followed by a fire broke out this morning in a chemical storage tank at an industrial site in the Zlín Region. The incident occurred at a facility belonging to Glycona, a company specialising in the production of methyl ester,

Police in the Croatian city of Pula have detained a Ukrainian citizen named Volodymyr Z. under a European Arrest Warrant, Germany's Federal Prosecutor's Office has announced.According to German investigators, the detained man is a trained d

The Prague Municipal Court has rejected a lawsuit filed by a Ukrainian citizen who was seeking international protection in the Czech Republic in order to avoid returning home and being drafted into the army. According to the ruling issued l

A kindergarten teacher in Kladruby, in the Tachov region, allegedly frightened a young boy with stories about the devil and punished him by making him stand alone in the washroom — behaviour that led to serious psychological problems for th

Petr Macinka, leader of the Motoristé sobě party and the Czech Republic's foreign minister, plans to run this autumn on two levels of Prague's municipal elections at once — for the citywide council and for the Prague 5 district council. The

Two-time Olympic tennis champion Barbora Krejčíková's compatriot Barbora Siniaková and her mixed doubles partner, Britain's Joe Salisbury—wait, let me redo this properly with correct names as given in the source (Sniakova and John Patten)—w

Several ministries in Andrej Babiš's new Czech government have failed to disclose lists of their paid advisors for the first half of 2026. Formally, this is permitted thanks to a rule change pushed through back in July last year by Petr Fia

In Brno, on Slovákova Street in front of house No. 5, the city plans to cut down a mature ginkgo biloba tree that is around 30 years old. The reason: the tree's roots are interfering with repairs to a sewer pipe laid back in 1902. The news

Andrej Babiš's government is beginning work on its first full-fledged budget — for 2027, since the current 2025 budget is effectively just a reworking of Petr Fiala's cabinet plan. But already, according to estimates from the Czech National

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has announced plans to reinstate so-called additional school start deferrals — a mechanism that allowed a child struggling with the first-grade curriculum to return to kindergarten partway through the schoo

On the morning of May 5, at half past eight, inspectors and police officers entered a general goods shop on the main square of Nejdek in the Karlovy Vary Region. A 49-year-old shopkeeper had bright packets displayed on the counter next to s

An appeals court has ordered a Czech businessman to pay 30,000 crowns for exposing himself to a female skier on the road between Mariánské Lázně and the village of Kladská while wearing a wig, dark sunglasses and pink fishnet stockings. The