The Pigeon Express
People across the western half of the Czech Republic have been advised by the fire brigade to keep their windows closed as they fight a big forest fire. Parts of the Bohemian Switzerland national park, which sits on the German border, have been burning since Sunday. Amid record temperatures and dry conditions, strong winds have […]
Ukraine has praised the courage of three European leaders who made a long, hazardous journey by rail from Poland to Kyiv in a show of support as the city came under further Russian attack. The prime ministers of Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic met Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday evening as a curfew […]
Germany is famous for having no speed limits on stretches of its motorways, but a Czech millionaire appearing to do 417km/h may have been testing the limit of what’s tolerable. Radim Passer is now being investigated for his apparent drive along a motorway in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. The prosecutor’s office in Stendal said it […]
A female tourist was thrown out of Venice after she was caught posing for photos topless on a war memorial. The 30-year-old from the Czech Republic stripped off last Friday afternoon, dumping her belongings on the monument, which pays homage to Italy’s war heroes, as she went for a swim in the freezing lagoon, and […]
A folk singer from the Czech Republic has died after deliberately catching Covid, according to reports. Hana Horka, 57, was unvaccinated and had posted on social media that she was recovering after testing positive, but died two days later. Her son, Jan Rek, said she got infected on purpose when he and his father had […]
Czech President Milos Zeman has appointed opposition leader Petr Fiala as the country’s new prime minister. Mr Zeman who tested positive for coronavirus last week made the appointment from inside a plexiglass box in a state room at his residence. The president was wheeled in by hospital staff in full protective gear. Czech rules require […]
One person died after a cable car detached and plunged into the ground in Czech Republic. The incident was reported on Sunday, on the Jested Mountain in the north of the country, he is believed to be a guide. He was the only person onboard the car. Fourteen other persons travelling in the opposite direction […]
Lawmakers in the Czech Republic are looking to strip President Miloš Zeman of his powers, after his hospitalization left the country in limbo. Zeman is “very unlikely” to return to work in the coming weeks, Czech Senate President Milos Vystrcil said on Monday. The president was admitted into intensive care more than a week ago […]
Three people died and eight others were seriously injured on Wednesday when a Munich-to-Prague express train ran through a stop signal and collided with a local commuter train in the Czech Republic, authorities said. Several passengers were taken by helicopters to hospitals from the crash site near the western Czech village of Milavce, the regional […]
An eyewitness video captured the moment a tornado hit a house in the southern Czech city of Hodonín on Thursday evening. The footage shows trees being bent and broken by winds that knock through a wall and send debris flying through the air before the tornado hits the man’s house, blowing a window in. At […]
A tornado ripped through multiple villages in south-eastern Czech Republic, injuring over 150 people and causing heavy damage, local media said. The storm damaged roofs of number of buildings in the southern Breclav and Hodonin districts, uprooting trees and overturning cars. Half of the village of Hrusky was destroyed by the tornado, Lidove Noviny newspaper […]
A day after the Czech Republic expelled 18 Russian diplomats, Russia expelled 20 Czech Republic diplomats from the country. Czech local intelligence agents say the diplomats are Russian intelligence operatives. They are suspected of involvement in an explosion at an arms depot in 2014 which killed two people. European Union foreign ministers are set to […]