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The tennis star says she won’t be ‘cowed’ by an ‘authoritarian regime’ 50 years after she defected from communist Czechoslovakia

Theodor Pištěk, a Czech costume and stage designer, has died at 93

The sealed document was entrusted to the National Archive in 2005

Ukraine – and Europe – will be hoping that Trump can hold his nerve when he meets Putin in Alaska on Friday

Donald Trump meets Russian president Vladimir Putin in Alaska on August 15 for their first summit of Trump’s second term. Their topic of discussion will be the war in Ukraine. The pair may decide the fate of the country which Putin began to illegally occupy in 2014 and which Russian…

A hastily arranged summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is set for Aug. 15, 2025, in Alaska, where the two leaders will discuss a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will not attend, barring a last-minute change. The Conversation’s politics editor Naomi…

Kremlin’s most prized spies were sent in to Czechoslovakia to whip up the 1960s reform protests in a move then replicated across the eastern bloc

As the head of his small Formula 1 team, Colin Crabbe, who has died aged 82, was the man who gave Ronnie Peterson his big break.  It was just before Crabbe’s 27th birthday when his Antique Automobiles team made its F1 debut in 1969, in the non-championship Madrid Grand Prix at…

Jawa Motorcycles might not be the first name that comes to mind when you think of retro-styled cruisers, but this classic brand has been making waves in India and beyond. Originally founded in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s, Jawa built a strong reputation for stylish, easy-riding motorcycles.