Brian Kenety

Czech economic diplomats are focused on getting the export-driven domestic economy back on track as the pandemic comes under control, and countries erect new barriers.  

Habsburg Catholic authorities put three rebel nobles, seven knights, and 17 burghers to death on Prague’s Old Town Square still revered today as national martyrs.  

A pair of skeletons unearthed in the region decades ago tell a fascinating story of two tiny prehistoric women who likely worked in some of the largest mines in Europe. 

Petra Hůlová’s poetic but often bleak debut novel chronicling the lives of three generations of Mongolian women remains among the most widely read Czech books in decades.

Barbora Krejčíková is the first to sweep the French Open women’s singles-doubles since 2000, and the first Czech to win solo since 1981.

Zdena Koubková won two medals at the Women’s World Games in 1934. Two years later, at the age of 22, she underwent gender reassignment surgery and became Zdeněk Koubek. 

MEPs have voted to issue proceedings against Andrej Babiš for breaches of EU law due to his alleged conflict of interest. It could spur the EC to take punitive action. 

Annual inflation likely peaked at 3.2 percent in May due to the low base effect from last year, analysts predict, and should stay near the central bank's 3 percent target.

The EU has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for kids 12 and up. The health ministry aims to start before summer's end. But a majority of parents still fear the jab.

Andrej Babiš’s minority government has survived yet another no-confidence motion. But opinion polls suggest a opposition coaltion will win the October election.