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Special Shopping Hours for Elderly to Be Scrapped as of May 9

Special Shopping Hours for Elderly to Be Scrapped as of May 9

Bratislava, April 29 (TASR) – The special shopping hours for the elderly, the disabled and accompanying persons in force due to coronavirus on each working day between 9-11 a.m. will be scrapped as of May 9, the Public Health Authority’s (UVZ) spokesperson Dasa Rackova announced on Thursday. A new

Funiculars to Operate again as of May 3 after COVID Ban

Funiculars to Operate again as of May 3 after COVID Ban

Bratislava, April 29 (TASR) – It will be again possible to use funiculars in Slovakia as of May 3 after a several months-long ban due to COVID-19, TASR learnt on Thursday. Nevertheless, according to the Public Health Authority spokesperson Dasa Rackova, only a single person or several persons from a single

Funeral Home Chief Kills Man in Morgue to Blackmail Own Wife

Funeral Home Chief Kills Man in Morgue to Blackmail Own Wife

Bratislava, April 27 (TASR) – Undertaker Jozef Kiraly has been sentenced by the Supreme Court to 23 years in prison for a premeditated murder committed two years ago in a morgue in the village of Sunava (Presov region), TASR learnt on Tuesday. Kiraly stabbed to death a man identified only as

NDS Signs Contract for Building Visnove Motorway Tunnel

NDS Signs Contract for Building Visnove Motorway Tunnel

Visnove, April 23 (TASR) – The National Highway Company (NDS) on Friday signed a contract with Skanska for constructing a 13.5-kilometre D1-motorway stretch between Lietavska Lucka and Dubna Skala in northern Slovakia, which includes the 7.5-kilometre Visnove tunnel. The price for constructing the entire stretch has been agreed at

Fico on Expulsion of Russian Diplomats: Slovak Gov't Composed of US Agents

Fico on Expulsion of Russian Diplomats: Slovak Gov't Composed of US Agents

Bratislava, April 22 (TASR) – The opposition Smer-SD party on Thursday called on the Slovak Government to present without any delay reasons for the expulsion of three Russian diplomats as announced earlier in the day. Parliamentary Vice-chairman Juraj Blanar (Smer-SD) at the same time stated that his party will initiate an

Slovak President: Expulsion of Russian Diplomats Erects Strong Boundaries

Slovak President: Expulsion of Russian Diplomats Erects Strong Boundaries

Bratislava, April 22 (TASR) – Slovakia by expelling three Russian diplomats expressed support to the Czech Republic and at the same time erected strong boundaries to activities of foreign secret services that endanger security interests of “our countries”, TASR was told by Slovak President Zuzana Caputova’s spokesman Martin Strizinec on

Babis Thanks Slovakia for Expelling Russian Diplomats: Great Gesture

Babis Thanks Slovakia for Expelling Russian Diplomats: Great Gesture

Prague/Bratislava, April 22 (TASR) – Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis thanked Slovakia for expelling three Russian diplomats in a display of solidarity with the Czech Republic in its rift with Russia over an explosion of a Czech ammunition warehouse blast seven years ago. Babis said that he was told about