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Police falls into Vltava after crashing on Prague bridge

Nosková reaches WTA Finals for first time

Voters going to polls in second day of municipal, Senate elections

Petr Pavel returns from holiday to vote in Czech municipal elections

Drought cuts Vltava hydropower output to half the long-term average

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Online exhibition explores Václav Havel’s role as host to world leaders

Czech-US memorandum aims to boost business cooperation

Two Czech nationals charged in Cambodia in drug-related case

Czech under-21 footballers to face Turkey in Euro qualifying play-off

Czechs are among the leading nations in Europe when it comes t o growing food at home . Indeed, a CVVM survey published this week found that no less than 70 percent of people in Czechia cultivate their own fruit and veg – 62 percent in their garde...

Falling water levels at the Lipno reservoir in Southern Bohemia have uncovered dozens of gravestones from the former cemetery in Dolní Vltavice, a village that was flooded in the 1950s. Experts are now recovering the stones and considering how best...

Freak accident leaves truck trapped under Prague railway bridge

David Pastrňák scores four points in Boston's 6–1 NHL victory over Utah

Czechs head to polls in municipal and Senate elections

A new exhibition at Prague’s Museum of Decorative Arts, part of this year’s Designblok, shines a light on mass-produced lamps made in Czechoslovakia from the 1950s to the 1980s. I went to have a look and spoke to the exhibition’s curator Eva S...

Czech candidate narrowly misses out on IIHF presidency

Constitutional Court upholds movement restrictions in Šumava National Park

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Czechia responds to EU concerns over PM Babiš's conflict of interest

President Petr Pavel has come in for criticism after his office announced that he will not vote in local elections on Friday and Saturday because he is on a private holiday. Czech heads of state almost always take part in elections, so is Mr. Pavel�...

Ladislav Špaček is a Czech writer, television journalist and presenter, whom Vaclav Havel handpicked to serve as his spokesperson between 1992 and 2003. In the course of that decade, which Špaček describes as the most exciting and rewarding peri...

Hepatitis A outbreak in South Moravia could worsen this autumn

Czech unemployment remains at five percent for third consecutive month

Czech retail sales growth slows to 4.3 percent in August

Drought drains Czech reservoir as water restrictions take effect

Czechs prepare for municipal and Senate elections

Pavel Haas Quartet wins musical ‘Oscar’ for Martinů recording

Water shortage declared on Vltava and Labe rivers in Central Bohemia

A new book by the late Czech writer Ivan Klíma has just been published, almost 25 years after he wrote it. His family only discovered the manuscript after his death. 

Culture minister criticizes writer Radka Denemarková's Frankfurt Book Fair speech

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PM Babiš calls national drought coalition meeting

Czech Constitutional Court upholds existing noise limits

Midnight Swimmers are a Czech indie-rock band with roots in London and Olomouc, now based in Prague. After releasing their debut EP Oceans & Seas, the band followed it up with their first full-length album, Odd Ones Out, in 2026. It is rated as one ...

The annual DesignBlok , Central Europe’s largest design and fashion festival, opens in Prague on Wednesday. The 28th edition, centred on the theme of light, brings together a record number of designers, studios and brands from Czechia and abroad....

Czech writer Radka Denemarková has delivered a forceful defence of literature as a moral and political force at the Frankfurt Book Fair , where Czechia is "Guest of Honour". She warned of the rise of authoritarianism, nationalism and manipulation o...

Czechia receives first €309 million from EU SAFE defence fund

South Bohemia declares drought emergency as Husinec reservoir nearly dries up

President’s wife criticises impossibility of voting in local polls from abroad, different constituency

Czechia lose 3:0 to England at Wembley

Czech Minister of Culture Klempíř booed at Frankfurt Book Fair opening

Aide: Return of Pavel for elections cannot be ruled out

Lehečka loses to Alcaraz in Japan Open final

Forty editors-in-chief from across the Czech media have issued a rare joint appeal to the country’s politicians. They are calling on them to reject violence and threats against journalists and to guarantee equal access to information from public i...

Czechia withdraws from 2027 Eurovision

Babiš: EU emissions trading system costing Czechia billions

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Study: Average flat in Czechia costs twice as many years’ salary as in some EU states

Czechia takes centre stage at Frankfurt Book Fair

Czech voters receive ballots as pre-election polling blackout begins

Among those paying tribute to Václav Havel on the 90th anniversary of his birth on October 5 has been former American President Bill Clinton, who in an interview with Czech Radio’s Jana Ciglerová shared memories of his political ally and their l...

Letter-writing campaign marks Václav Havel’s 90th anniversary

Brno engineering fair opens with nearly 1,400 exhibitors

Among those paying tribute to Václav Havel on what would have been his 90th birthday has been former US president Bill Clinton, who in an interview for Czech Radio shared memories of his political ally and long-time friend.

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Czech authorities join international crackdown on illegal drugs

The two 355-metre-high masts of the Liblice transmitter near Český Brod are due to be demolished by controlled explosions in October 2026. In its time, the complex, built in 1976, was the most powerful medium-wave transmitter in Central Europe, wi...

Senate unveils plaque honouring Václav Havel

Court orders Motorists candidate to apologise over false Facebook post

Experts from Charles University tested commonly used 3D printing materials and found that some of them can negatively affect human cells when used over a long period, potentially causing eczema or itching. The results of the Czech research have appe...

Former MP gets extra year in prison for fleeing to Paraguay

Czech man jailed over Moscow protest released

Patrik Schick named Czech footballer of the season

Václav Havel would have turned 90 on October 5. Politician and diplomat Alexandr Vondra first encountered him as a young underground publisher in communist Czechoslovakia and later became one of his closest collaborators and his foreign-policy advi...

Audit finds shortcomings in Czech start-up funding

Seznam says Turek has failed to comply with court ruling

Media chiefs call on politicians to reject violence

Turek apologises to Seznam.cz over claims about access to users’ emails

Czech defender Chaloupek ruled out of match against England

Around 200,000 Volkswagen Group cars in Czechia affected by recall over steering concerns

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Government planning to cut ministry staff by 10 percent

Czechs marking Václav Havel’s 90th birth anniversary

More than half of Czech workers use AI at work, survey finds

Bartůňková stuns Sabalenka to reach Beijing Open fourth round

Prague police record 176 offences at illegal tuning meet

Lucie Žáčková and Stanislav Majer win Thalia Awards for acting

Czech footballers lose to Spain 3-1 in Nations League

Jaroslav Ježek is a prominent 20th century Czech composer, pianist and conductor whose music became an inseparable part of the Liberated Theatre of Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich.

Lieutenant General František Fajtl, a WWII hero who commanded an RAF squadron and later got hard labour in communist Czechoslovakia, died on October 4, 2006.

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Czechia keeping diplomatic mission in Kyiv despite Russian warning

PM Babiš rejects Russian ambassador’s claim that Czech government softened anti-Russian rhetoric

Opposition warns against playing down risks posed by Russia

Numerous events mark upcoming Havel birth anniversary

Czech Rectors’ Conference warns universities may have to limit student numbers over finances

Hundreds of cars gather at tuning meet in Prague

President Pavel to miss municipal elections due to private trip to Morocco

Thalia Awards to be presented at Prague’s National Theatre

Finance Ministry sets maximum fuel prices for the weekend and Monday

Seven-week wine festival begins in Český Krumlov

Filip Turek apologises to environmental group Hnutí Duha for offensive remarks

Czechs go to the ballot boxes in a week’s time for municipal elections and elections to one-third of the seats in the Senate. How significant will the latter be for government leaders ANO? And what are the local polls likely to tell us about the p...

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Metronome Prague festival to end after ten years

Czech Defence Ministry cancels CZK 24.7bn armoured vehicle tender

Drones have fundamentally altered the character of modern warfare and have become a decisive factor on the battlefield. The Czech military is winding up a 12-day international exercise, Drone Shield 2026, aimed at mapping and testing available techn...

Škoda Auto cuts production due to supplier problems

Police refer Turek car crash case to misdemeanor proceedings

Finance Ministry to set fuel price caps for weekend and Monday

Babiš government survives second no-confidence vote

Vejmelka opens new NHL season with shutout

One of Czechia’s most celebrated modernist buildings, Prague’s Villa Müller, has just reopened after renovations. A presentation on Wednesday also included the launch of a book about the villa, co-authored by leading Dutch architect Winy Maas.

Radio Prague International would like to thank our listeners around the world for the extraordinary support and solidarity you have shown us in recent months. Your messages have meant a great deal to all of us at RPI and have given us an enormous bo...

Czech police seize drugs and equipment worth CZK 330 million

EU states approve stricter migrant return rules

A new exhibition at Prague’s Villa Pellé explores the work of Kamil Lhoták, one of the most distinctive Czech artists of the 20th century. Called Landscape of Dreams, it brings together works spanning more than five decades of his career.

One hundred and fifty years after the birth of Tomáš Baťa, the world-famous shoe brand is undergoing a major turning point. The Baťa company has officially announced it will close its last factory in Central Europe, definitively ending productio...

More than three-quarters of Czechs fear AI-generated fraud

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Diesel prices fall sharply after price caps take effect

Czech manufacturing conditions improve for seventh month

Fuel price caps take effect in Czechia

MPs could vote on no-confidence motion against Babiš government

Czech foreign intelligence service gets new director

Zlín Zoo loses African elephant after surgery

Baťa to close Czech shoe factory, ending traditional footwear production in Europe

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