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Barbora Krejčíková wins the Ostrava Open in the Czech Republic (5–7, 7–6 (7–4) , 6–3) against world number 1 Iga Świątek.
2022-10-9

The Sky Bridge 721 opens in Dolni Morava, Czech Republic. Spanning 721 m, it is longest simple suspension bridge in the world.
2022-05-13

The bodies of four Filipinos, an Austrian, and a Czech, all oil workers who were kidnapped and then murdered in Libya in 2015 by Islamic State terrorists, are found at a cemetery.
2021-03-3

The Czech Republic begins a vaccination campaign against COVID-19 using the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine tozinameran, with Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and World War II veteran Emilie Řepíková among the first people to get vaccinated.
2020-12-27

In Ostrava, Czech Republic, a man opens fire in a hospital's waiting room, killing seven people before fleeing, then shooting himself dead.
2019-12-10

U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein accuses the Czech Republic of committing systematic human rights violations by detaining refugees for up to 90 days and strip-searching them for money to pay for their own detention. Czech President Miloš Zeman rejected Zeid's criticism "of his stance against migration and Islam."
2015-10-22

Foreign ministers from Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia meet with officials from the European Union and Germany to discuss differences over migrant quotas.
2015-09-11

South Africa convicts Czech fugitive Radovan Krejčíř of kidnapping, attempted murder, and drug dealing charges.
2015-08-24

Five people are killed and eleven are injured, two seriously, when an apartment complex is destroyed by a gas explosion in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic.
2013-02-17

Voters in Czech Republic go to the polls for a presidential election. Two candidates, Miloš Zeman and Karel Schwarzenberg, will face in second round on 25–26 January.
2013-01-12