On Saturday, downtown Prague hosted the traditional Prague Pride parade, the culmination of the annual festival dedicated to LGBT rights. Organizers estimate that around 50,000 people took part in the march, which wound its way from Wencesl
On Saturday, several dozen pro-Palestinian activists gathered on Wenceslas Square in Prague, near Havířská Street. They unfurled two banners reading "Freedom for the Queer Community, Borders for Capital" and "Stop the Israeli Genocide," whi
Six women from Brno traveling through Japan have found themselves stranded on the island of Okinawa after powerful Typhoon Dolphin slammed into the southern Japanese prefecture on Saturday. According to local authorities, the storm injured
For the past 72 years, a five-metre bronze statue of a Soviet soldier with his rifle pointed towards Vienna has stood on a roundabout in the central Mariánské Square in the Czech town of Znojmo. Locals call it "Ivan" — officially, it's the
On Thursday morning, a group of minors together with their group leader lit a campfire under a rock overhang near the Cave of the Bohemian Brethren, not far from the famous Pravčická brána arch in Bohemian Switzerland National Park. Before
In the coming days, the European continent will remain under the influence of powerful high-pressure systems, keeping abnormally warm and dry weather in place almost everywhere. Forecast models suggest that rain will fall only in the form o
Czechia has seen a sharp rise in tick-borne borreliosis infections: in July alone, 2,792 people fell ill — a third of all cases recorded during the whole of last year. According to the State Institute of Public Health (SZÚ), roughly 90 new
A traffic accident involving injuries occurred on Žižkova Street in the centre of Ústí nad Labem, where a car collided with a pedestrian. The news was reported by the portal pozary.cz, citing data from the rescue services.All the main units
Due to prolonged heat and drought across various regions of Czechia, authorities are introducing bans on lighting fires, smoking, and other activities that could trigger a blaze. In recent days, firefighters have recorded forest fires near
The Czech Union for Nature Conservation (ČSOP) has released the results of this year's spring amphibian migration: volunteers saved 36,226 toads, frogs and newts that would otherwise have perished under car wheels on their way to breeding g
The Czech Police are changing the way they communicate with journalists and the public: officers must now avoid disclosing specific psychiatric diagnoses of people who come to their attention, unless doing so is critical to the case. A meth
A laboratory analysis of ten samples of špekáčky (Czech grilling sausages) from various shops and butchers found that their meat content ranges from 50% to 89% — and a higher price by no means guarantees a better recipe. The test measured t