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Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has said he intends to revive the idea of building a government district in Prague's Letňany district — a project he first proposed back in 2015 after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron.In a Su

Ahead of his upcoming trip to China, Chamber of Deputies Speaker Tomio Okamura shared new details about a Czech citizen recently detained by Chinese authorities. “This may come as news to you, but he is married to a Chinese woman,” the SPD

Jaroslav Zvěřina, one of the Czech Republic's most prominent psychiatrists and sexologists and chairman of the Sexological Society of the Czech Medical Association, has died at the age of 81. His death was announced by urologist Libor Zámeč

On Sunday morning, Central European time, users began flooding social media with complaints about disruptions to Facebook and Instagram, according to DownDetector, a portal that tracks such outages. The disruption affected only the desktop

On Friday evening, a column of roughly a thousand motorcyclists rode through Prague and brought traffic to a standstill on Wenceslas Square in the city centre, drawing crowds of onlookers.The traditional ride, held annually for several year

Only 77,600 children were born in Czechia in 2025 — the lowest number since 1785, according to demographic data. The average fertility rate (children per woman) has fallen to 1.28, down from 1.83 in 2020–2021, which at the time was one of t

On Saturday, around 1:30 PM, in the Staré Hamry area of the Beskydy Mountains, a 37-year-old cyclist lost control while descending a road leading from a tourist lodge to route I/56, falling to the ground and ending up partly on the roadway.

As of July 1, Czech dentists will, with rare exceptions, no longer be allowed to use amalgam fillings — the temporary exemption granted to Czechia and Slovenia by the European Union has expired, while the ban has already been in force in th

Overnight, Russia launched a massive missile strike on Kyiv, firing what the Ukrainian military says were 41 ballistic missiles, with 23 confirmed hits recorded across the country. The attack sparked fires and caused severe damage in the ca

The Czech Ministry of Health and radiology experts say the lead aprons that have covered patients during X-rays for decades are now largely useless — and in some cases even harmful, as they can degrade image quality and prompt the machine t

Energy company ČEZ has announced that the two units of the Temelín nuclear power plant will be able to generate electricity until 2080 and 2082 respectively — 20 years longer than originally planned. That would give the plant a total servic

A German repeat offender who was previously released following a ruling by the Constitutional Court is now sitting in an Austrian prison. This was confirmed by Lucie Ženíšková, spokesperson for the Pilsen District Court, who noted that the