Student protests are under way in the Belgian city of Liège, with hundreds of people taking part, Reuters reports. The students are angry about rising education costs, overcrowded classes and poor access to study materials. Demonstrators ho
Sri Lanka's former first lady, Shiranthi Rajapaksa, was arrested Wednesday over allegations that a charity she is linked to misused donations meant for a children's hospital. The arrest is the latest in a series of corruption cases against
Last weekend, a concrete statue of Marshal Konev was ceremonially unveiled in the Valley of Death near Dukla in Slovakia, but who paid for it remains unclear. Neither the municipality nor the organizers of the ceremony admit to having finan
Three years ago, on the morning of October 7, 2023, fighters from the Palestinian group Hamas breached the Gaza Strip border and attacked Israel, killing around 1,200 people and taking roughly 250 hostage. Israel's ambassador to Czechia, We
France carried out a test launch of its newest-generation M51 sea-based ballistic missile: the missile, without a nuclear warhead, was launched from the country's territorial waters and flew about 4,000 kilometers over the Atlantic Ocean. T
Mass protests swept France on Tuesday. According to the lycée students’ union, around 450,000 people took part in the demonstrations, including 100,000 in Paris, while the Interior Ministry put the nationwide figure at 256,000, with 56,000
A wave of student protests in France, sparked by poor conditions in secondary schools and the government’s plans to cut the 2027 budget, has spiralled into violence and anarchy. Teachers are being beaten, police are attacked with firecracke
Ahead of celebrations marking 60 years of independence from the United Kingdom, Botswana's government has issued a permit to cull 23 elephants and other wildlife for non-commercial purposes. The decision was made by the country's Ministry o
A passenger Boeing 737 MAX operated by Fly Dubai, flying to Tel Aviv, transmitted code 7500 — the international signal for a hijacking or unlawful interference with a flight. According to Israeli media, there was no hijacking: the alert was
A large wildfire has broken out on the Croatian island of Dugi Otok, spreading through hard-to-reach terrain covered in dense scrub. According to Matej Rudić, head of the fire service in the city of Zadar, the flames are threatening residen
US President Donald Trump has said that once the US-Israeli coalition defeats Iran, he will declare the strategic Strait of Hormuz to be United States territory. "As soon as we beat Iran (…), pretty soon I'm going to declare the Strait of H
A powerful earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Flores early on Friday morning, at around 5:00 a.m. local time (11:00 p.m. Prague time). Rescue teams are working to pull people from the rubble of buildings damaged by the main shock an