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10/10/2025
The Czech Army has detected foreign drones flying over key infrastructure, particularly military sites, the army’s spokesperson Zdeňka Sobarňa Košvancová told the Czech News Agency on Friday. She said the army is prepared to detect, identify, and neutralize any unauthorized drones.
In recent weeks, several European countries—including Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Belgium—reported similar incidents over critical infrastructure. The origin of these drone flights remains unclear, though some nations have expressed concerns that Russia could be involved.
According to the spokeswoman, the Czech Army continues to monitor drones over the country’s infrastructure.
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10/10/2025
Saturday will be mostly cloudy, with occasional rain showers. Highs will range from 12 to 17 °C, around 9 °C at 1,000 m in the mountains.
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10/10/2025
Czech authorities announced on Friday that they are investigating several recent bear sightings across the country. Reports came from Pelhřimov in central Bohemia, the Doupov Mountains in the north-west, and the Přerov region in eastern Moravia, where hunters and locals spotted what may have been a female bear with a cub. Experts are examining the animals’ origin and potential risks.
Jiří Janota of the Czech-Moravian Hunting Union said the situation should not be taken lightly. Police confirmed that if bears are verified, they will be safely captured and quarantined, with Dvůr Králové Zoo in north-eastern Bohemia ready to take them in.
Meanwhile, experts on large carnivores have dismissed the repeated reports of bear sightings as disinformation, unnecessary panic, and the spreading of false alarms.
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10/10/2025
Czech carmaker Škoda Auto increased its third-quarter deliveries by 15.1 percent year-on-year to 256,300 vehicles, its parent company Volkswagen announced on Friday. Škoda recorded the third-strongest growth among all VW Group brands, behind only Bentley and MAN. Overall, the Volkswagen Group’s global deliveries rose by one percent to 2.2 million vehicles.
From January to September, Škoda’s sales climbed 14.1 percent to 765,700 cars, while group deliveries increased 1.2 percent to 6.6 million. Electric models drove much of the momentum – Škoda more than doubled its EV sales in the third quarter to 45,600 vehicles. Despite the gains, German automakers continue to face challenges from high energy costs, labor shortages, and rising Chinese competition.
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10/10/2025
Czechia will establish its own factory for artificial intelligence development, the Czech AI Factory (CZAI), whose core will be a new AI supercomputer in Ostrava, university spokeswoman Jana Dronská told the Czech News Agency on Friday. The project, led by the Technical University of Ostrava, will cost about CZK one billion and was selected in a European call to create AI factories under the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking.
CZAI and the new supercomputer, named KarolAIna, will support small and medium-sized businesses, industry, public institutions, and research organizations, helping to boost the development and adoption of artificial intelligence across the country.
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10/10/2025
Parts of Prague were hit by a power outage lasting about 15 minutes at around noon on Friday, affecting areas including New Town, Vinohrady, and Nusle. The fault occurred at one of the city’s substations and was fixed by rerouting the power supply.
Electricity has since been fully restored across the capital. According to PRE, the outage was confined to several districts and was far less serious than the widespread blackout that struck parts of Czechia in July.
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10/10/2025
The Czech national football team drew 0–0 with Croatia in Prague’s Eden Stadium on Thursday evening, dropping more points in World Cup qualifying. After the 1–5 defeat in June, the Czechs again failed to beat the group leaders and have almost no chance of qualifying directly.
Croatia stay top of the group with one match fewer played and a better goal difference. The Czechs, coached by Ivan Hašek, will finish their October games on Sunday against the Faroe Islands, who shocked Montenegro 4–0. Only group winners qualify directly, while second-placed teams head to the playoffs.
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10/10/2025
A memorial evening for Dana Drábová, the longtime head of the State Office for Nuclear Safety, will be held at Prague’s Forum Karlín on Thursday, October 23. Drábová, who had asked not to have a public funeral, died on Monday after a serious illness at the age of 64.
The event, titled “Dana, Thank You!”, is organized by her friends and supporters from the groups Gift for Putin, Post Bellum, and the Havloids Memorial Club, in agreement with her family.
Organizers have asked people not to bring flowers or gifts but instead to support charities helping single parents or Ukraine. Mourners can pay their respects until 2 p.m. today at a memorial site outside the State Office for Nuclear Safety in Prague, or sign a condolence book in Pyšely, where Drábová lived and served on the local council since the 1990s.
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10/10/2025
German national Thomas Bartsch has been awarded CZK 85,500 in compensation for an injury he suffered while trying to cross the Iron Curtain and escape to the West. Czechoslovak border guards shot him in the knee.
Bartsch was initially granted just CZK 5,550, but after the Constitutional Court intervened, the compensation was significantly increased. The latest ruling has now been upheld, with the court rejecting further appeals as unfounded, ČTK found in the court’s database.
Bartsch, then 23, lived in East Germany, a Soviet satellite state. The incident occurred in July 1989. After being wounded, he was taken to hospital and later handed over to East German security authorities. He has suffered lasting health problems since the shooting.
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10/10/2025
Annual inflation in Czechia slowed to 2.3% in September from 2.5% in August, the Czech Statistics Office reported on Friday, confirming its preliminary estimate. It was the third consecutive month of easing and the lowest inflation rate since April.
Month on month, consumer prices fell by 0.6%. The biggest impact on the year-on-year increase came from housing costs, while electricity and gas prices declined compared with last year.
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