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Czech hospitals are facing a severe shortage of medical staff, and some institutions have started bringing in nurses from the Philippines. According to official estimates, the country is short of around 2,500 nurses, and the staffing gap is

According to statisticians' estimates, up to 1.52 million foreigners were living or working in Czechia at the end of December. The figure is based on national accounts — statistical data covering the state of the entire Czech economy."The e

Between June and October 2025, Slovakia's Mountain Rescue Service (Horská záchranná služba) carried out 559 callouts to help people in trouble in the mountains. As usual, most incidents occurred in the High Tatras, which accounted for four

At a Prague court, private detective Robert Plevač testified for the first time in two years of proceedings in the case of former judge Zdeněk Sovák, accused of attempting to solicit a bribe of up to CZK 150 million from construction giant

Dukla Prague let a victory slip through their fingers on Friday evening at their Juliska stadium, failing to hold on against Slavia's reserve squad — a team with an average age under 20. The Prague side led for more than an hour but collaps

Two drones crashed on Romanian territory on Friday — both incidents occurred in Tulcea County, near the border with Ukraine, the country's defence ministry reported based on emergency call data.The first drone came down near the village of

Late one night, a patrol and escort unit was flagged down by a Škoda whose driver asked officers for help buying a motorway vignette for a trip abroad. His behaviour immediately raised the suspicions of the seasoned officers, police spokesw

At a hastily convened hearing in federal court in Manhattan, Luigi Mangione, accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, pleaded guilty. The plea resolves one of two criminal cases brought against him over the executive's deat

An experimental Chinese maglev train — which glides above a specially designed track thanks to magnetic levitation — has set a new record for speed and acceleration, reaching 799 km/h from a standing start in just 5.3 seconds. The tests too

In Prague's Smíchov district, construction is in full swing on the most ambitious project in the Czech capital's modern history — a mixed-use quarter rising on what was once an abandoned industrial wasteland. According to the Prague Institu

The administration of US President Donald Trump has sent NATO allies a questionnaire probing their political loyalty to Washington's course, Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the matter. Among other things, the document asks w

On Thursday evening, an aggressive passenger attacked four employees of the handling company Menzies at Prague's Václav Havel Airport after being denied boarding on a flight to Rome. The incident took place at Terminal 2, near Gate C9, shor