• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II among nominees for The Game Awards
    11/22/2025

    The twelfth edition of The Game Awards, set for 11 December in Los Angeles, has announced its shortlist and the Czech title Kingdom Come: Deliverance II has made the cut for one of the industry’s top honours.

    Across 29 categories, the organizers released 98 nominations covering games, content creators, esports players and teams, as well as actors and film/TV adaptations. Winners will be chosen by a combination of jury votes and public voting.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Agriculture Ministry maps out zones with fireworks restrictions
    11/22/2025

    The Ministry of Agriculture has drawn up a map of areas where the use of consumer fireworks will be banned starting in December. The zones include the surroundings of hospitals, senior homes, care centres, shelters, wildlife rescue stations and zoos, ministry spokesman Vojtěch Bílý told the Czech News Agency.

    The map remains provisional and may still change. From December, municipalities will also gain the power to partially or fully prohibit pyrotechnics within their borders.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Singer Ewa Farna takes top Czech Nightingale award
    11/22/2025

    Singer Ewa Farna took the top Czech Nightingale award at a gala ceremony in Prague on Friday night and defended her title in the female singers’ category. Václav Noid Bárta claimed this year’s Czech Nightingale award in the male singer category, pushing longtime favorite Marek Ztracený into second place. Kabát prevailed among bands, and Calin triumphed for the third year running in the hip hop and rap category. Renne Dang earned Newcomer of the Year. Singer and composer Vladimír Mišík was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Mild earthquakes registered in Cheb–Sokolov border regions
    11/22/2025

    Residents on the boundary between the Cheb and Sokolov regions registered a series of light earthquakes over the past 48 hours. According to data from the Geophysical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and its public-information app Seislok, the tremors exceeded a magnitude of 2.5 on the Richter scale. People reported one noticeable quake on Thursday evening, followed by two more around midday on Friday.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • SPD sends cabinet nominations to ANO leader Babiš
    11/22/2025

    Tomio Okamura, head of the Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) party, has confirmed that he sent a list of SPD’s ministerial nominations to ANO leader Andrej Babiš, the Czech News Agency reported. Boris Šťastný, chairman of the Motorists’ parliamentary group, said his party would hand over its own nominations once Babiš calls for them.

    The coalition council will meet on Tuesday to finalize the full list of ministers destined for President Petr Pavel, as well as the timetable for the next steps in forming the joint government.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Charter 77 signatory Jan Patočka dies at 80
    11/21/2025

    Jan Patočka, journalist, political commentator and son of philosopher Jan Patočka, died on Friday, 21 November, at the age of 80, Václav Havel Library announced on its web page.

    Like his father—who died in 1977 after brutal interrogations by the communist secret service —he was involved in the intellectual and civic resistance against the totalitarian regime in Czechoslovakia. He became one of the notable signatories of Charter 77.

    Because of his outspoken criticism of the communist government and his involvement in the dissident movement, he was forced to take a series of manual jobs. After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Patočka turned fully to journalism, becoming a respected voice on the Czech media scene. From 1991 to 1992, he served as editor-in-chief of Český deník.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Weather forecast
    11/21/2025

    Saturday is expected to be partly cloudy to overcast with day temperatures between -2 and 2 degrees Celsius.

  • Czech Republic sees rise in number of anti-Semitic incidents
    11/21/2025

    The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the Czech Republic rose again last year, according to new data from the Federation of Jewish Communities (FŽO). The organization recorded 4,694 cases — 366 more than the year before, an increase of over eight percent and the highest figure to date. The sharp upward trend of recent years has eased somewhat, yet the report says that the gravity of incidents intensified after the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023, and the ensuing war in Gaza.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • FM Lipavský backs call for special tribunal to try Russia on aggression charges
    11/21/2025

    Russia should face an international tribunal for waging an aggressive war against Ukraine — according to a joint appeal published in the French daily Libération on the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Nuremberg Trials. The statement was signed by seven foreign ministers, among them Ukraine’s top diplomat Andriy Sybiha and his Czech counterpart Jan Lipavský.

    “The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine proves that the crimes judged at Nuremberg have not been confined to history,” the ministers write. Establishing such a tribunal, they argue, is both a legal imperative and a historical duty since aggression must not be rewarded and violations of international law must not go unpunished. Alongside Sybiha and Lipavský, the appeal bears the signatures of the heads of diplomacy from the Baltic States, Norway and Moldova.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Prague Lions advance to Super Cup semifinals
    11/21/2025

    The home team Prague Lions have advanced to the Super Cup semifinals at the Prague Playoffs show jumping series. They finished second in the quarterfinals. Fernando Martinez Sommer on High Five, Pieter Devos on Casual and Thibeau Spits on Impress-K all delivered clear rounds. Only a higher combined time kept the Lions behind the equally faultless Rome Gladiators.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

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