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
The Football Association of the Czech Republic (FAČR) is considering 52-year-old Spanish coach José Francisco Molina, better known as Denia, as the leading candidate for the position of head coach of the national team. According to Sport.cz
A powerful heatwave that began building over the eastern Atlantic earlier this week will reach Central Europe, including Czechia, on Thursday, with daytime temperatures topping 35°C in many areas and potentially hitting 40°C in some spots.A
Fraudsters posing as government agencies and delivery companies have stepped up their activity across Czechia in recent weeks, flooding phones with fake SMS messages. Victims have already lost tens and even hundreds of thousands of crowns a
Overnight, Ukrainian drones struck a logistics centre belonging to Russian online retailer Wildberries in Russia's Ryazan region. According to the Telegram channel Astra, thick smoke rose over the industrial site, with eyewitnesses posting
The Czech Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs will be unable to account to the European Union for projects worth roughly 64 million crowns — the fallout from a conflict of interest involving Alexandra Semancová, former advisor to Minister
By the end of this decade, the Czech state will end its guaranteed support for photovoltaic power plants built during the country's first solar boom in 2008–2010. Twenty years after launch, these plants will lose their fixed feed-in tariffs
The Supreme Audit Office of the Czech Republic (NKÚ), which oversees the spending of public funds, could lose its state police protection at its Prague-Holešovice headquarters as early as January 1. According to sources, the relevant propos
The Jára Cimrman Theatre in Czechia is about to turn 60 — the fictional universal genius, dreamed up by Jiří Šebánek and Zdeněk Svěrák, has long become an iconic figure of Czech culture and was even voted "The Greatest Czech" in a national
Chamber of Deputies Speaker Tomio Okamura has proposed abolishing the ninth grade of primary school, following the example of Germany, Poland and Hungary, arguing that the move would save the state budget roughly 50 billion crowns a year wi
A major Czech retail chain processed 48 tonnes of food that would otherwise have ended up in the trash during the first six months of the year — overripe fruit and sausage trimmings left over from slicing at the deli counter. This was repor