Berlin's governing mayor, Kai Wegner, has proposed introducing Islamic religious education in Germany's state schools as a way to prevent the radicalization of young Muslims. The initiative comes in response to Saturday's terror attack in B
Czechia continues to struggle with shortages of tamoxifen, a crucial drug for treating breast cancer, even as it remains readily available in other European countries such as Germany, Poland, Spain and France.The original medication has bee
Czech parliament member Patrik Nacher put a substantial sum of money into PlatonCoin, a cryptocurrency offered by the company Platon Life. Its founders — a married couple, Daniel and Julia Tanner — along with two other individuals, now stan
Singer and songwriter Glen Hansard, frontman of The Frames and an Oscar winner for the song Falling Slowly, has died in Ireland at the age of 55. According to The Irish Sun, the musician was killed in a motorcycle accident at around 4:30 a.
A regional court in Brno has sentenced 49-year-old Elena Prostinaková to a year and a half in prison over an incident at a railway crossing in June 2025, when her car narrowly avoided colliding with a high-speed train travelling at 160 km/h
The Czech Constitutional Court has dismissed a complaint filed by MPs Adriana Hochelová (STAN) and Irena Frčíková Konečná (Piráti), who had challenged a decision by the Chamber of Deputies' Organisational Committee to cancel their foreign t
At Prague Airport, a man jokingly claimed to be a terrorist — and those words instantly triggered serious consequences: the airline refused to let him board for safety reasons, and his young children lost their holiday along with him.The ma
The Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office of the Czech Republic will make a decision next week in the case of businessman Zdeněk Pelc, who is accused of causing a fatal car crash — the office is weighing whether to file a cassation complaint a
The Regional Court in Plzeň has ruled on the appeal in the case of Punčořová, the former head of the building authority in Jáchymov, who tried to retroactively legalize a massive forest road illegally built to connect the ski resorts of Klí
Czech Culture Minister Josef Klempíř (Motorists party) says he does not employ paid external advisers — the first time in a decade that a head of this ministry has gone without such a team. He revealed this in a written statement."Every min
On Tuesday evening, Petr Macinka, leader of the Motoristé sobě (Motorists for Themselves) party, revealed on the internet channel XTV — and later on his Facebook page — the text of an SMS message sent to him by Czech President Petr Pavel fo
Phone scammers continue their mass assault on bank accounts across Czechia — the latest incident took place on 8 May, a public holiday, when a 30-year-old woman with a university degree, who asked to be called Kateřina, narrowly avoided fal