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Starmus 2024: Scientists and musicians unite in Bratislava to celebrate planet Earth

Here's what it was like to experience the Starmus Festival in Bratislava, where top scientists and musicians united to celebrate Earth with an overarching theme "The future of our home planet".

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Slovak PM Fico in ‘serious condition’ as shooting suspect appears in court

Court near Bratislava rules that man accused in assassination attempt will be held in custody.

Al Jazeera

Slovak Doctors To Discuss Moving PM Fico To Bratislava

Slovak doctors to discuss potential transfer of Prime Minister Fico to Bratislava after shooting incident. Concerns raised about safety of political figure...

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‘You will not replace us’: a deadly attack on a Slovakian gay bar – and its link to a fast-spreading racist ideology

Fifteen months after two men were shot in Bratislava, evidence suggests the killer may have been helped by an unidentified US-based extremist

The Guardian - UK

‘A technician of power’: Robert Fico, Slovakia’s veteran populist

Pro-Russia head of new coalition is seen as being inspired by nationalists such as Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump

The Guardian - UK

Tennis | Rohan Bopanna-Matthew Ebden duo loses Shanghai Masters final to Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos

Marcel Granollers/Horacio Zeballos won the ATP Masters doubles title in Shanghai, China, beating Rohan Bopanna/Matthew Ebden 5-7, 6-2, [10-7]. Sriram Balaji/Andre Begemann won the Bratislava Challenger doubles title, while Zeel Desai won the Monastir ITF women's singles title.

The Hindu

Hitler film made in Slovakia as Germany resists production of Nazi dramas

The makers of a movie depicting the Third Reich’s use of propaganda were forced to shoot it in Bratislava after public funding denied

The Guardian - UK

Slovakia election 2023: populist party Smer takes commanding lead in count with 98% of precincts reporting – as it happened

Election could decide whether country sticks with liberal, pro-western line or begins to lean more towards Russia

The Guardian - UK

Slovak progressive party takes narrow lead over populists in poll as election approaches – as it happened

Progressive Slovakia polls at 18% against controversial former prime minister Robert Fico’s Smer party at 17.7%

The Guardian - UK

‘A huge storm’: polarised Slovakia on a knife edge ahead of elections

Populist frontrunner’s ‘toxic’ campaign has exposed deep divisions and a victory could move country closer to Russia

The Guardian - UK

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NATO's 'eastern flank' B9 group commits to strengthening support for Ukraine

The Bucharest Nine (B9) countries of the NATO alliance met in Bratislava this week. On the agenda: Russia's ongoing military campaign in Ukraine. But some B9 countries are less willing to help than others.

Reuters

NATO's eastern flank expects upgraded Ukraine ties at Vilnius summit

Members of NATO's eastern flank expect the military alliance's July summit in Vilnius will set Ukraine on a clearer path to membership, once its war with Russia ends, the countries said at a summit in Bratislava on Tuesday.

Bangkok Post

Slovak ex-minister charged for praising Russian war

BRATISLAVA - The Slovak top prosecutor's office said Monday it had charged ex-justice minister and former Supreme Court chief justice Stefan Harabin over a Facebook post praising Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

France 24

Macron says Putin has jolted NATO awake at security summit

French President Emmanuel Macron said at a security conference in the Slovakian capital on Wednesday that his Russian counterpart President Vladimir Putin had jolted NATO awake by invading Ukraine last year. Macron also called on the West to offer Ukraine "tangible and credible" security guarantees as it battles the Russian…

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The Guardian - UK

West may have to negotiate with Putin as well as pursue war crimes trial, Macron says

French president calls for ‘path to membership of Nato’ for Ukraine and reconciliation of east and west

Al Jazeera

Slovakia swears in interim government of technocrats after crisis

Bratislava has been without a proper government since a vote of no confidence was called on Prime Minister Eduard Heger.

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Fourth-Generation Porsche Cayenne EV Will Be Made In Bratislava

It's coming after 2025.

Reuters

Slovakia gets U.S. helicopter offer after sending jets to Ukraine

The United States has offered to sell Slovakia 12 new Bell AH-1Z Viper helicopters at a two-thirds discount after Bratislava sent its retired MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, Defence Minister Jaroslav Nad said on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Thousands rally in Bratislava to honor 2 gay men shot dead

Slovakia’s president has joined a rally of thousands to honor two gay men who were shot dead in the capital earlier this week and demonstrate support for the LGBTQ community

Reuters

Slovakia could treat killings outside gay bar as terrorism, prosecutor says

Slovakia could treat the killing of two people outside a well-known gay bar in the capital Bratislava as an act of terrorism, a top prosecutor said on Friday, as investigators looked deeper into the shooting which has rattled the central European state.

Reuters

'Radicalised teenager' killed two outside Slovakia gay bar - PM

A "radicalised teenager" shot dead two people outside a gay bar in Slovakia's capital Bratislava, Prime Minister Eduard Heger said.

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