The National Drug Headquarters of the Czech Republic (NPC) carried out one of the biggest operations against synthetic drugs in its 35-year history: this summer, police raided two underground labs and warehouses in Prague as well as in the
The co-pilot of a flydubai aircraft attacked the captain with a knife in the cockpit — within less than 30 seconds, the airliner lost nearly 4,300 metres of altitude. Despite severe injuries, the captain managed to press the mechanism that
For over a year, Czech police have been examining records on defibrillator implantations at Olomouc University Hospital (FNOL): they first looked at patients enrolled in the European clinical trial Profid Ehra, then expanded the review to h
A Hungarian appeals court has cut by one year the prison sentence of Maja Trux — a non-binary German national convicted over an antifascist attack on participants of a neo-Nazi march in Budapest on February 11, 2023. The ruling was reported
A trial has begun in Hong Kong for the ex-husband of model Abby Choi, along with his father and brother, who stand accused of murdering the 28-year-old woman, parts of whose body police found in February 2023 at a house on the outskirts of
An appeals court in Brno is hearing the case of three young Ukrainians who beat and robbed two Ukrainian teenagers outside a club in the city centre at night, taunting them over their origin, while one of the attackers threatened a victim w
Minister Červený has filed a criminal complaint against an unknown person with the High Public Prosecutor’s Office in Prague, demanding an investigation into the large-scale contamination of a former military site in the Klatovy region.“If
The Czech health ministry will file a police complaint in the coming days over suspicious multimillion-crown payouts made to former top managers of the interior ministry's insurance company (ZP MV ČR). Health Minister Adam Vojtěch (ANO) ann
A US federal appeals court on Wednesday, less than an hour before the scheduled time, halted the execution of 50-year-old Christa Gale Pike, who was convicted in 1996 of brutally murdering a classmate in the state of Tennessee. The executio
Police detained Petr Honek, former deputy general director of VZP, the Czech Republic's largest health insurance company, along with two other people last Thursday, simultaneously searching the offices of VZP and around ten pharmaceutical c
A teenager attacked teachers with a knife at a school in Slovakia: a 61-year-old teacher was killed on the spot, and two other victims suffered serious injuries. The school's headteacher stopped the attack — she locked herself in her office
Prague's High Court has finished drafting the written reasoning for its ruling, issued in late August, which upheld the conviction of Jana Nagyová — a former chief of staff to Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and now an ANO member of the Europea