15+ hour, 46+ min ago   (235+ words) Czechia has no uniform standards for cleaning up contaminated sites — each case is assessed individually, depending on the concentration of pollutants, and the local geology and hydrogeology. This was explained by an expert on contaminated land, commenting on the discovery…...

18+ hour, 18+ min ago   (253+ words) Slovakia's extra-parliamentary movement Republika is gaining popularity at the expense of the ruling Smer party led by Prime Minister Robert Fico. According to pollsters, a portion of those who voted for Smer in 2023 (when the party won 681,000 votes) now feel…...

18+ hour, 48+ min ago   (156+ words) US President Donald Trump announced at the awards ceremony for the Irish Open that he intends to lift tariffs on Irish whiskey. He said virtually everyone had been lobbying him on the issue, including several professional golfers. "Everybody's been bugging…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (454+ words) US President Donald Trump has called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to stop striking Russian oil infrastructure, Reuters reports. According to Trump, such strikes are causing fuel shortages that are hurting the whole world. "Mr. Zelensky needs to do one…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (349+ words) For several days in a row, Europe has been sitting under a powerful high-pressure system that created a so-called heat dome: sinking air warmed up more and more, while the stable weather pattern prevented the hot air mass from moving…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (223+ words) A Ukrainian drone has struck the Novy Urengoy gas condensate stabilisation plant in Russia's Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, reportedly covering a record more than 3,300 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, according to the drone's manufacturer. The strike hit one of the region's…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (263+ words) In the area of the former military zone of Dobrá Voda in Šumava, near the village of Prášily, police and firefighters have cordoned off a site roughly the size of two football pitches, where they discovered 200 barrels of hazardous chemicals…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (215+ words) German police have detained 48-year-old Daniel W., suspected of orchestrating a series of attacks on electrical substations in North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony and Brandenburg. The man was spotted and stopped during a vehicle check near the Weisweiler power plant close to Aachen,…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (199+ words) The Czech Army's new Chief of the General Staff, Miroslav Hlaváč, will not be traveling to Ukraine after all — a trip that would have been his first since taking office. He had planned to attend the international YES conference in…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (256+ words) Researchers from Mendel University (MENDELU) have raised the alarm over the spread of Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae, a dangerous parasite that infects salmonid fish in Czech rivers. The team surveyed 59 sites along 42 waterways across the country and found the pathogen's DNA in…...