Firefighters in the Czech Republic have been tackling a huge fire after a train derailed. Travel agency-organised pub crawls will be banned in the Czech capital at night, the council says.

The political scene in Czechoslovakia following World War II was complex, to say the least. Eduard Benes was head of the London-based Czech government-in-exile during the war, and returned to his ...

Re “Introducing the Department of Mass Distraction” by Alex Beam (Opinion, Feb. 15): Between George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” the debate has raged: How ...

The gathering was not the 2025 Riyad summit on Ukraine, but the 1938 Munich meeting to decide the fate of Czechoslovakia. After gaining power, Adolf Hitler had rearmed Germany, occupied the ...

During the Berlinale panel, CEO of the Czech Audiovisual Fund Helena Bezděk Fraňková introduced the audience to the new legislation. The country’s production incentive will now go up to 25% ...

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin's peace talks send a chilling ripple of déjà vu, a historian has warned, sending Europe "back to 1938". A top history expert has accused the two leaders of "land ...

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What’s in a name? It depends on how you pronounce it. Arizona has a lot of names derived from other cultures. Thus, the way people say the names of places like Casa Grande or Ajo or Tempe or ...

Situated at the core of Europe, the Czech Republic hosts around 10.8 million residents. Known for its extensive cultural history and heritage, the country is observing a rising interest in its ...

More than a few readers of European history have recalled that in 1938 big powers sold out Ukraine’s neighbor Czechoslovakia in an attempt to rein in German dictator Adolf Hitler. That deal was a ...

A beaver in a River. Credit: hehaden – CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr. Beavers have saved the Czech government and its citizens $1.2 million by flooding what used to be an army training site, where a dam was ...