Slovakia

All you need to know to understand Slovakia's pivotal parliamentary poll on Saturday.

The fire department said one person was still missing after the explosion.

A crash between a truck and passenger bus killed at least 13 people in western Slovakia on Wednesday and injured many others, Slovak fire and rescue services said.

Martin Glvac, leader of the Bratislava chapter of Fico's Smer party, is the highest-ranking individual to resign over contacts with politically-connected entrepreneur Marian Kocner.

A fresh case of African Swine Fever (ASF) has been discovered in Slovakia in a village near the Hungarian border.

Slovakia’s far right have been edging upwards in the polls, with around 14% of the vote, only 5% behind the ruling social-conservative Direction-Social Democracy (Smer-SD) party.

The couple were gunned down in their home near Slovakia's capital of Bratislava in February 2018.

Slovakian politicians who voted to restrict the law on the singing of foreign national anthems in public have said the result was a "mistake" and that they didn't realise what they were voting for.

Voters have had enough of the ruling Smer party and just last year there mass protests broke out after a journalist was assassinated.

Slovakia charges man with ordering journalist's murder

Protesters hit the streets in their thousands on Thursday evening to mark a year since “the murders that changed Slovakia”. Investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová, were shot dead at their home near Bratislava on February 21, 2018.

The murder sent shockwaves through Slovakia and sparked the biggest street protests since the Velvet Revolution in 1989.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo begins this Monday a week-long tour across Central Europe in an attempt to counter growing Chinese and Russian influence in the region.