SLOVAKIA

In a deal worth $1 billion, Slovakia plans to provide Ukraine fighter jets worth $340 million. In return, the United States plans to give Slovakia 12 new military helicopters.

The United States has offered Slovakia 12 new military helicopters as compensation for the MiG-29 fighter jets the European country is giving to Ukraine, Slovakia's defense minister said Wednesday. Under the offer, Slovakia would pay $340 million for the Bell AH-1Z attack choppers in a deal worth about $1 billion that also includes 500 AGM-114 Hellfire II missiles and training, Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad said.

President Joe Biden met with Ireland’s taoiseach, Leo Varadkar on Friday at the White House where dye turned the north lawn fountain green for the occasion.

Ukraine will receive a fleet of 13 Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets from Slovakia. Slovakia's prime minister announced the plan at a news conference on Friday.

Switzerland requires milk-based products promoting themselves as Swiss to be made entirely within the country.

Biden will meet with the Bucharest Nine, a group of eastern NATO countries concerned by Russian aggression, and Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Warsaw.

Officials in the Czech Republic say the government will end checks on the country’s border with Slovakia that were renewed last year amid a new increase in migration.

A nationwide referendum in Slovakia on amending the constitution to make possible an early election has failed to produce a legally binding result because the turnout was too low.

A musical manuscript handwritten by Ludwig van Beethoven is getting returned to the heirs of the richest family in pre-World War II Czechoslovakia, whose members had to flee the country to escape the Holocaust.

The Group of 7 nations are in talks to cap Russian oil at between $65 and $70 a barrel but it won't have a great impact on Moscow's oil revenues, analysts say.

The leaders of four Central European countries are holding a summit in Slovakia to discuss energy, migration and regional cooperation.

EUROPEAN PRAVDA - SUNDAY, 9 OCTOBER 2022, 11:00 On Sunday, Jaroslaw Nagy, Slovakia's Defence Minister announced the transfer of two Zuzana 2 self-propelled artillery units to Ukraine. Source: European Pravda, citing Nagy Quote by Nagy: "To celebrate the 70th birthday of aggressor Putin, we presented another gift.

Czech police have fired warning shots in the air before detaining a driver of a van carrying 15 migrants after the Czech Republic and Austria renewed checks at their borders with Slovakia amid a renewed wave of migration

Austria announced that the country will start checks at its border with Slovakia. The measure will officially begin at midnight on Wednesday.

Austria says it will start checks at its border crossings with Slovakia following a similar decision by the Czech Republic

Austria says it will start checks at its border crossings with Slovakia following a similar decision by the Czech Republic.

The Czech government has decided to renew checks at its border with Slovakia amid a new wave of migration

The Czech government has decided to renew checks at its border with Slovakia amid a new wave of migration.

Slovakia’s president has sworn in new ministers who replaced their predecessors from a junior coalition partner that withdrew from the governing four-party coalition that left Prime Minister Eduard Heger without a parliamentary majority.

Poland and Czechia have signed an agreement to protect Slovak airspace as Slovakia gives up its old Soviet-made MiG-29 jets.

Oil shipments from Russia through a critical pipeline to Czechia have resumed after more than a week.

Slovakia's economy minister says oil shipments from Russia through a critical pipeline to several European countries have resumed after a problem over transit payments was resolved.

Slovakia’s defense minister says his country may consider donating its Soviet-era warplanes to Ukraine

Slovakia's defense minister says his country may consider donating its Soviet-era warplanes to Ukraine.

Slovakia may consider donating its fleet of Soviet-era MiG warplanes to Ukraine, the Slovak defense minister said Monday. Standing alongside his British counterpart Ben Wallace, Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad said “we can discuss the future" of his country’s 11 MiG-29 fighter jets after they're grounded “most probably” by the end of August. Slovakia has already negotiated with NATO allies the Czech Republic and Poland to monitor Slovak air space from the beginning of September.

Maros Tancos and Joanna Gomulska tricked people into coming into the UK and then used them as slaves.

Russia has reduced natural gas to Europe again as countries have worked to ease their dependence on Russian supplies amid the war in Ukraine.

Officials say a fire broke out in an apartment building in Slovakia overnight, killing at least four people

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declined to comment Monday on reports that he is planning to visit Ukraine together with his counterparts from France and Italy soon.

Slovakian police say a train engine has hit a stopped passenger train in Slovakia, injuring dozens of people, four of them seriously

Host Finland rallied to beat Latvia 2-1 for a second victory in two games at the ice hockey world championship.

Slovakia and Hungary say they will not support sanctions against Russian energy that the European Union is preparing over the war in Ukraine.

The trip will mark the first lady's latest show of solidarity with Ukraine.

Talks gained momentum last week after a major holdout, Germany, softened its opposition.

Uniper is preparing to buy Russian gas using a payment system that critics say will undermine EU sanctions.

Politicians and scientists say they were duped by an organisation making false claims about global warming.

Police in Slovakia say former Prime Minister Robert Fico and his ex-interior minister face criminal charges.

DOBRA, Slovakia — Driving back to his village near the Ukrainian border last Thursday, the mayor had to stop to let a train pass, and assumed he wouldn’t have to wait long. But the flatbed wagons, stacked high with military equipment, just kept coming. He waited for nearly half an hour. “It was a very long train, much longer than usual,” recalled Mikolas Csoma, the mayor of Dobra, a previously sleepy village in eastern Slovakia that, over the past month, has become a key artery funneling weapons

Small European countries like Slovakia and Estonia are pushing for more military support to Russia, even as bigger countries like France and Germany hesitate.

Slovak Defence Minister Jaroslav Naď has announced his country is in talks with the Ukrainian government over a potential sale of Zuzana 155 mm self-propelled howitzers.

"Now is no time for complacency," Biden said in announcing the news. He also accused the Russian military of committing "horrific acts of brutality."

Since the Russian invasion, 100 Russian diplomats from around a dozen countries have been ordered to leave their postings.

Slovakia’s Parliament has condemned the mass deportation of Jews from the country to Nazi death camps during World War II

Ukraine, which has sought NATO membership since 2002, is bordered by four NATO allies.

Japan's military says it had spotted four large Russian amphibious warfare ships sailing close to its islands and traveling west. Pictures appear to show military trucks loaded on one of the vessels.

The Slovakian defense minister said Thursday that his country could give its S-300 missiles to Ukraine without creating a “security gap” within NATO if the West agrees to backfill supplies or provide security guarantees.

CCTV footage shows the moment an apparent rocket strike hit a street in downtown Kyiv, causing a huge explosion and killing at least one person.

Slovak authorities say they have broken a Russian spying network that was operating on Slovak territory

A man who had just parked his Lamborghini outside his downtown Los Angeles apartment building was pistol-whipped in an attempted robbery Sunday. Suspects are still at large, and officials are asking for the public's assistance in their arrest. (March 10)

Vadym Prystaiko calls for a temporary pause of the the UK's "bureaucratic" visa rules for refugees.

The boy's mother said she is a widow and explained she was unable to leave because she had to stay with her sick mother who cannot move on her own.

Social media posts claim that three NATO countries will give 70 warplanes to Ukraine to aid the fight against invading Russian forces. This is misleading; while Kyiv said Poland, Bulgaria and Slovakia would provide the aircraft, officials from all three countries denied that they would do so."Bulgaria, Poland and Slovakia will transfer 70 combat aircraft to Ukraine that can be stationed on airfields in Poland," a March 2, 2022 Facebook post says, citing Russian news agency TASS, which included B

"Every day begins with a text to our relatives," says 16-year-old Dennis. "We ask, 'are you alive?'"

Ukraine says its pilots are in Poland picking up donated MiG-29 fighter jets. Poland isn't commenting.

The EU says up to four million people may try to escape the war in Ukraine.

Slovakia has marked the anniversary of the 2018 slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee by unveiling a monument to honor them at a central square in the capital of Bratislava.

The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee says it spoke to the men's hockey team after members were involved in a noisy late-night party at the athletes village.

Slovakia has won its first Olympic hockey medal in the nation’s history.

Slovakia is planning to gradually ease most coronavirus restrictions despite a current record surge of infections caused by the highly transmittable omicron variant.

Team USA had been one minute away from advancing to the Olympic semifinals — but Slovakia came back to force overtime in the final minute of regulation.

The United States is out of the men’s hockey tournament at the Olympics in stunning fashion after blowing a late lead.

The United States is out of the men's hockey tournament at the Olympics in stunning fashion after blowing a late lead. Marek Hrivik scored with 43.7 seconds left in regulation, Peter Cehlarik had the winner and Slovakia beat the U.S. 3-2 in a shootout Wednesday to knock the top-seeded Americans out in the quarterfinals. The U.S. led for almost half the game before the tying goal when Slovakia pulled its goaltender for an extra attacker to play 6-on-5.

The top-seeded United States will face Slovakia in the quarterfinals of the men's hockey tournament at the Beijing Olympics.

Slovakia’s parliament and president have approved a defense military treaty with the United States.

Thousands of Slovaks have rallied to protest a defense military treaty between their nation and the United States, which are both NATO members.

Thousands of Slovaks rallied Tuesday to protest a military defense treaty between their nation and the United States, which are both members of NATO. Waving national flags and banners such as “Stop USA Army," the protesters gathered in Bratislava in front of Parliament, where lawmakers were debating the Defense Cooperation Agreement. The parliamentary debate was obstructed by opposition lawmakers, who used whistles to prevent others from speaking.

Slovakia has limited access to what the government considers the most risky events and public gatherings as the country gets ready for the highly infectious omicron coronavirus variant.

Pope Francis is celebrating his 85th birthday

As most European nations impose new restrictions to curb the omicron variant, Bosnia is taking a relatively laissez-faire approach to soaring COVID-19 infections in the region

Slovakia’s Parliament has approved a plan to give people 60 and older up to 300 euros ($339) if they are vaccinated against COVID-19.

Slovakia’s government has proposed a plan to give people 60 and older a 500-euro ($568) bonus if they get vaccinated against COVID-19.

The Slovak government has approved a two-week national lockdown amid a record surge of coronavirus infections.

The leaders of three Central European countries on Tuesday expressed their support for Poland in an ongoing migration crisis on its eastern border with Belarus.

The Czech Republic and Slovakia have both reported record daily new coronavirus cases.

Slovakia is planning to limit movement of the non-vaccinated people in an effort to tame the latest wave of coronavirus infections that has caused a “critical” situation in the country’s hospitals.

Coronavirus cases have soared to a new record high in Slovakia, with some hospitals having to move COVID-19 patients elsewhere in the country because they couldn’t take any more.

Slovakia has expanded strict coronavirus restrictions to nearly half of the country amid a record surge of infections.

Croatian authorities will limit gatherings and widen the use of COVID-19 passes to curb soaring infections after the numbers of infected people reached new records again on Friday.

Slovakia has reimposed coronavirus restrictions in the hardest-hit parts of the country amid the latest surge of infections.

The Greek prime minister's pet dog Peanut has briefly interrupted a news conference attended by the visiting prime minister of Slovakia.

Peanut has met several visiting European leaders since becoming Greece’s top dog back in April. On Thursday, the golden-haired former stray decided to give himself a louder introduction -- briefly interrupting a news conference being held by the prime ministers of Greece and Slovakia. Greek Premier Kyriakos Mistotakis expressed support for the country’s Balkan neighbors efforts to join the European Union, and froze momentarily as Peanut could be heard barking loudly a few meters away at the prime minister’s official residence.

Dobrik has been in Europe filming a Discovery+ series with the Vlog Squad, but now he says he can't upload because he's stuck.

The pope's post-surgery joke marked a frank acknowledgment of the forces within the church who are at odds with him.

Pope Francis says Catholic bishops must minister to politicians who back abortion with “compassion and tenderness,” not condemnation.

Pope Francis is urging Slovakians look out for the neediest among them as he wraps up his four-day pilgrimage

Pope Francis is urging Slovakians look out for the neediest among them as he wraps up his four-day pilgrimage.

Pope Francis is urging Slovakia’s Roma to integrate better into the mainstream as he meets with the country’s most socially excluded minority group, who have long suffered discrimination, marginalization and poverty.

This marks his first international outing since undergoing intestinal surgery in July.

Orban, the three-term prime minister, has effectively shuttered the country to asylum seekers — and has a vastly different vision for Europe than the pontiff.

Pope Francis is paying a visit next week to a neighborhood in Slovakia most Slovaks would not even think about going, where until recently even the police would avoid after dark.

Xander Schauffele has won the Olympic gold medal in golf in a tense finish.

With a click of a button, the aircraft turned into a sports car in under three minutes after landing.

It always felt like a set piece would settle a tough-to-watch European Championship match between Sweden and Slovakia.

Slovakia coach Stefan Tarkovic says defender Denis Vavro and a member of the team’s coaching staff have tested positive for the coronavirus ahead of the European Championship match against Sweden.

Slovakia capitalized on a second-half red card and got a goal from Milan Skriniar in a 2-1 victory over Poland at the European Championship.

Foreign ministers of Europe's four Visegrad countries discussed cooperation to boost national economies and tourism after the pandemic.

The U.S. 7th Fleet that operates throughout the Indo-Pacific says more than 14,000 of its service members have received their full doses of the coronavirus vaccine, which it began administering on January 5.

The Czech government has agreed to start easing its tight lockdown in one of the hardest-hit European countries and will allow at least some children to return to school.

Vials of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine sit in the pharmacy of National Jewish Hospital for distribution early Saturday, March 6, 2021, in east Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)DETROIT — People who are homeless will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccines in Michigan starting Monday. The single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine and the two-shot Moderna vaccine are approved for individuals 18 and older. But Limassol city authorities aren’t letting the festive spirit completely wither away, organizing some events that comply with virus restrictions. Ad___COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka has received its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines under the COVAX program.

Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine arrives at Kosice Airport, Slovakia, on Monday March 1, 2021. In the meantime, dozens of countries have already authorized Sputnik V for use — including EU member Hungary — and many have agreed to purchase millions of doses of the shot. “No talks are ongoing between negotiation teams and the producers, or institutes, or companies or organizations behind the Sputnik vaccine,” said Stefan De Keersmaecker, the Commission’s health policy spokesman. AdThe RDIF has been pushing for the EMA to review Sputnik V for months, with Dmitriev first announcing an application to the European regulator in November. But unlike AstraZeneca’s two-dose vaccine, Sputnik V uses a slightly different adenovirus for the second booster shot, a factor that some scientists say may account for its apparently high efficacy rate.