Chronicle of Czechia

Police closed the investigation of a traffic accident in Prague, concluding that at most a misdemeanour, not a criminal offence, had been committed.

The Ministry of Defence cancelled the contract for 185 armoured vehicles for army engineers, worth almost 25 billion crowns.

The Chamber of Deputies did not pass the opposition's motion of no confidence in the government of Andrej Babiš; 83 deputies voted in favour.

The Turkish company Pegasus Airlines completed the takeover of Czech Airlines and Smartwings.

The organisers announced that the Metronome Prague music festival is ending after ten years and will not be held next year.

Škoda Auto curtailed production because of problems at a supplier and partly reduced the number of shifts.

Greenpeace activists in Prague covered an ANO billboard with a message aimed at the Motorists party.

The government raised ministries' spending and cut the budget reserve in its draft budget.

The Police Presidium ordered that the Oxygen Forensics software, developed in Russia according to US authorities, no longer be updated.

The High Court in Olomouc upheld a 17-year sentence for an elderly man for murdering his nephew in the Jihlava region.

The Senate approved reducing the number of Czech soldiers deployed to defend NATO's eastern flank.

The Prague City Museum completed the restoration of the Müller Villa in Střešovice; tours resume on Thursday.

Environment Minister Igor Červený filed a criminal complaint over contaminated land in the former military area of Zhůří in the Klatovy region.

The appeals court upheld, with final effect, a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence for Pardubice lawyer Pavel Jelínek for inciting an abduction.

Zlín Zoo lost a female elephant that could not be revived from anaesthesia.

The warmest day of this Indian summer brought temperature records at some weather stations.

Prague City Hall launched a tender for redeveloping the embankment in Braník, where a new path will be built.

The Supreme Administrative Court rejected a Russian company's complaint against the freezing of dozens of its properties in Czechia.

Police are investigating the lead in Odolena Voda's water on suspicion of damaging and endangering the environment.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni held talks in Prague with Prime Minister Andrej Babiš on the EU budget, competitiveness and security.

The exhibition of the Czech crown jewels at Prague Castle ended; the key-holders returned them to St Vitus Cathedral.

Bata announced that it will end shoe production next year at its plant in Dolní Němčí, its only factory in Central Europe.

Prague traffic police began using the first mobile noise meter to detect illegally modified exhausts.

The academic senate of Tomas Bata University in Zlín re-elected rector Milan Adámek for another four years.

Petra Wünschová, founder of the Locika centre for abused children, died aged 52.

The Supreme Administrative Court upheld Jaroslav Brož's cassation complaint; the Prague Municipal Court must rule again on his dismissal as dean of the Catholic Theological Faculty of Charles University.

Conservationists released about 2,100 sturgeon into the Morava and Dyje rivers.

The Regional Court in Brno acquitted a man accused of burning a five-month-old child, finding it unproven that he caused the injuries.

A demonstration by the Million Moments association on Old Town Square called for turnout in the municipal and Senate elections.

People in Stará Boleslav commemorated St Wenceslas, patron saint of the Czech lands.

At a motoring meet in the Liberec region a driver ploughed into spectators, injuring five.

University Hospital Ostrava carried out more than 1,500 preventive check-ups in the city centre in a single afternoon.

Minister Šebestyán said that the European Commission has not yet decided on excluding Agrofert from EU funding.

Water in Odolena Voda passed the lead tests but is still not drinkable, and restrictions remain in place.

Music journalist Jiří Tieftrunk, a long-time contributor to Czech Radio Ostrava, died aged 75.

Police closed the Prague Ring Road near Slivenec for two hours while a bridge girder was being put in place.

Metro line C was suspended on part of its route over the long weekend for sleeper replacement.

Thick smoke poured from a house on Francouzská Street in Prague; firefighters rescued people from the windows.

The Senate drafted its own bill removing the statute of limitations for murder and will offer it to the Chamber of Deputies.

A small railway museum opened at Jemnice railway station.

Trade unions of police officers and firefighters rejected the plan for pay rises in the security services and demand a ten percent increase in pay tariffs.

Two people died and six were injured in a night-time crash on the Prague ring road.

The rating agency S&P raised the outlook on Czechia's credit rating from stable to positive.

Karel Paar, emeritus Grand Prior of the Knights of Malta, died aged 92.

During an operation at the General Health Insurance Company, police detained three people; no one has been charged so far.

Hygienists advised residents of Odolena Voda and other municipalities near Prague to drink only bottled water because of lead in the tap water.

On Čech Bridge in Prague a woman driver mounted the pavement and hit two pedestrians; three people were injured.

According to press reports, Volkswagen is to recall about four million cars over steering problems, including more than a million Škoda vehicles.

Police began examining the serving of food made from expired eggs at a school in Prague, where salmonellosis had appeared among pupils.

Health inspectors confirmed salmonella in pupils of the primary school in Újezd nad Lesy; the school canteen had used expired eggs.

The Industrial Palace at Prague's Výstaviště reopened after reconstruction, including the rebuilt left wing destroyed by fire in 2008.

Water from the Odolena Voda reservoir was declared unfit to drink because of excessive lead; around 20,000 people were left without drinking water.

On the D4 motorway near Kytín a car hit the crash barrier and overturned; one person died and two were injured.

Two Prague City Hall officials charged with corruption left their posts after a police raid.

Police carried out operations at the General Health Insurance Company (VZP) and at pharmaceutical firms.

Reckless drifting in Týn nad Vltavou ended with a car hitting a pedestrian.

Prague 2 reopened the grounds in Riegrovy sady with a new playground after reconstruction.

Prague's wastewater treatment plant is under construction in Vinoř; new houses nearby will no longer be held back by the ban on sewer connections.