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Reports emerged today of a harrowing shooting incident at a university building in Prague, Czech Republic, resulting in multiple casualties and numerous injuries. Czech police confirmed the distressing news but refrained from specifying the exact count of victims, as per Reuters.

Athens ranks among the world's 20 cities that are most accessible and most attractive to remote workers, according to research by the global human resources platform WorkMotion.

The speaker of Turkey's parliament will send a bill approving Sweden's NATO membership bid to parliament's foreign affairs commission on Wednesday, a source from the assembly has said.

Since 2019, the Athens Art Book Fair has been showcasing artists who push the boundaries of traditional books and explore a variety of experimental forms. This year's edition hosts over 80 exhibitors, as well as a collective display featuring more than 50 artists from Greece and across the world, including the US, Spain, Japan, Prague, Portugal, Argentina, Peru, Tunisia and more.

At the meeting of his cabinet, he described the situation as explosive.
In the past week, the military-political situation in our region has worsened. That's because Azerbaijan has been massing troops along the Nagorno-Karabakh separation line and the Armenia-Azerbaijan border in recent days.

Prague has cancelled an October concert by Russian soprano Anna Netrebko over her country's invasion of Ukraine, organizers said on Aug. 17.

Netrebko, whose past support for Russian President Vladimir Putin has led to cancellations of several concerts worldwide, was due to perform at Prague's Municipal House on Oct. 16.

The Turkish Embassy's bid to install a 3-meter statue of modern Türkiye founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in the Czech capital Prague has been turned down by local authorities, the BBC has reported.

PRAGUE - Fifteen years after recognising the so-called Kosovo, the Czech Republic will send an ambassador to Pristina for the first time.

At the government's proposal, President Petr Pavel has appointed Bohumil Mazanek to the post, the Czech ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement.

Mazanek will take over from the Czech charge d'affaires in Pristina.

Huge projects are due to deliver new neighbourhoods in Prague. Photo: Central Group Priced out

In the Hungarian capital, buyers need more than 16 average annual salaries to buy a 75 square metre (m2) apartment. This means that if you start working at 23 and miraculously don't spend on anything else, at 40 you can own a home. This trend accelerated especially from 2015 on.

Czech-born literary giant Milan Kundera died on July 11, aged 94, at his Paris home. Born in Brno, Kundera played a significant role in the intellectual revival that culminated in the Prague Spring in the late 60s. In 1975, with his work banned amid the "normalisation" imposed on Czechoslovak society by the Communist authorities, the author decamped to France in exile.