Posts Tagged ‘Czech’
Babis Pledges Loyalty To Europe As Czech Government Talks Begin
Czech billionaire ex-premier Andrej Babis vowed loyalty to Europe as he met the president to start talks on a new government Sunday, a day after his movement topped a national vote. Final results showed that Babis’s ANO (Yes) party won 34.5 percent of the vote on Friday and Saturday, earning 80 seats in the 200-member…
Read MoreCzech Driverless Train Hits Open Track
A rail line linking two northern Czech towns is testing Europe’s first driverless train operating in an open environment, its developer told AFP on Tuesday. The train named Edita has been running since April on a local railway used as a testing track by the Prague-based private AZD company producing transport control and signalling systems.…
Read MoreCzech FM Summons Chinese Ambassador Over Cyberattack
The Czech Republic on Wednesday summoned China’s ambassador over a cyberattack targeting Prague’s foreign ministry as the EU and Washington condemned the attack and NATO warned of a growing threat. The Czech foreign ministry said an extensive investigation of the attack “led to a high degree of certainty about the responsible actor”, naming it as…
Read MoreCzech Beer Culture Eyes UNESCO Listing As Pubs Take Hit
Going to a pub several times a week to meet friends, media consultant Gabriela Galetkova hopes Czech beer culture — which is taking a hit as bar visits dip — will be internationally recognised. “I won’t buy beer to drink at home. For me, Czech beer culture is about meeting people in a typical Czech…
Read MoreTeenager Kills Two Women In Knife Attack At Czech Shop
A 16-year-old boy killed two women in a knife attack at a discount shop in the Czech Republic on Thursday, police said, adding the motive remained unclear. Police arrested the teenager, a Czech national, minutes after the attack at an Action branch on the outskirts of Hradec Kralove, around 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of…
Read More‘Ruined My Life’: Sterilised Czech Roma Await Compensation
Czech Anna Adamova is still haunted more than three decades after she was forced into a sterilisation that she says irreparably damaged her life. A member of the central European country’s often marginalised Roma minority, Adamova was about to give birth to her fourth child aged just 22 in 1991 when she says she was…
Read MoreFear And Tears As Storm Boris Wrecks Czech Town
Marek Prochazka will turn 50 on Wednesday, but he won’t be celebrating, with his home town in the Czech Republic once again ravaged by floods. The town of Krnov on the border with Poland was hit by a devastating wave of stormwater Sunday as the Opava and Opavice rivers rose to record levels. Picking his…
Read MoreCzech City Awaits The Inevitable As Floodwave Looms
The sun was shining and the sky was bright blue with just a few white clouds, but in downtown Opava in the Czech Republic, most people only talked about the weather with concerned frowns. Local people gathered on bridges and the embankment in the city centre to watch the eponymous Opava river gradually rise level…
Read MoreSouth Korea’s KHNP Wins Multi-billion-dollar Czech Nuclear Tender
South Korean power giant KHNP has won a tender worth billions of dollars to build two nuclear units at a Czech power plant, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Wednesday. KHNP (Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Company) beat France’s EDF in the tender launched in 2022 initially for one new reactor at the Soviet-built…
Read MoreFour Dead, More Than 20 Injured In Czech Train Crash
Four people were killed and more than 20 injured when an express train crashed head-on with a freight train in the central Czech city of Pardubice, officials said on Thursday. The express train from Prague with more than 300 passengers on board was due to travel overnight from Wednesday to Thursday to the Ukrainian town…
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