Czech politics, in context.
A court in Prague is about to hold the first trial under a new Czech law that makes it a crime to carry out illegal activity on behalf of a foreign power.
Andrej Babiš's incoming Czech government has refused to guarantee European Union money set aside for the Czech state budget.
Andrej Babis, prime minister of Czechia, keeps saying the Ukraine war needs a diplomatic solution and that someone must talk to Russia.
Škoda JS, a Czech engineering company owned by energy group ČEZ, has signed a deal with Rolls-Royce SMR to be the only designer and maker of drive systems (mechanical parts that move and position components) for Britain's small modular reactors, a newer, smaller type of nuclear plant.
A joint investigation by Deutsche Welle and other European broadcasters found that a Colombian man who set fire to Prague buses in June 2024 was recruited online by a Cuban working for Russian intelligence.
The Central Bohemian Region, one of Czechia's 14 regional governments, is paying 12 million korun (about $500,000) from its own budget to send nearly 200 portable battery stations to residents of Ukraine's Kyiv oblast (region) before winter.
German police are investigating an overnight fire at a substation in central Berlin and a cut fence at another substation in the west.
A Czech company called LPP Holding has finished testing Narwhal, the country's first home-built cruise missile, which can hit targets more than 600 kilometres away.
Russia's Ministry of Defence said Sunday it is preparing large-scale strikes on Ukraine's electricity system, calling it payback for Ukrainian attacks on Russian power and civilian sites.
The European Union is preparing what would be its largest sanctions package against Russia since the country's full invasion of Ukraine, according to the news outlet Seznam Zprávy.
Ukrainian drones hit a warehouse run by Ozon, Russia's second-biggest online retailer, in Russia's Samara region overnight into Saturday, starting a fire and forcing about 500 people to evacuate.
Uber and Chinese company Pony.ai plan to put more than 2,000 self-driving taxis on European roads, with a similar push planned for the Middle East.