NATO eastern flank members want to boost support for Ukraine at alliance summit in July

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — NATO allies should aim to further boost their support for Ukraine and for its aspiration to become a member of the alliance, the leaders of nine Central and Eastern European countries said Tuesday. The presidents of an informal group known as the...

USA Hockey's Hilary Knight voted IIHF's first female player of the year

Hilary Knight was the runaway leader in voting for the International Ice Hockey Federation’s first female player of the year award on Thursday, some six weeks after the 33-year-old captained the United States to win gold at the women’s world championship. The IIHF announced...

Slovak court acquits businessman in retrial over 2018 murder of journalist

PRAGUE (AP) — A court in Slovakia has acquitted for a second time a businessman accused of masterminding the 2018 slaying of an investigative journalist and his fiancée. The Specialized Criminal Court in Pezinok, near the capital, Bratislava, which handles Slovakia’s most...

Court in Slovakia acquits for a second time businessman accused of organizing the 2018 slaying of a journalist

Zookeeper found dead in animal enclosure in Slovakia

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Authorities in Slovakia launched an investigation after a zookeeper was found dead in an animal enclosure, officials said Tuesday. Police said an autopsy was being performed to determine the cause of the death and declined to provide further details,...

Slovakia gets technocratic caretaker government until September's early election

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s President Zuzana Caputova swore in on Monday a government of technocrats to lead the country to snap elections in September amid a political crisis. Ludovit Odor, the the former deputy governor of the central bank and a respected economist,...

EU investigates after 3 countries ban Ukraine grain imports

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Slovakia became the third European Union country to ban food imports from Ukraine on Monday, deepening the challenge for the bloc as it works to help Ukraine transport its grain to world markets. Slovakia followed Poland and Hungary, both of which announced...

Slovakia gives Ukraine remaining 9 of 13 promised warplanes

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia has delivered the remaining nine of the 13 Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets that it promised to Ukraine, the Slovak Defense Ministry said on Monday. The ministry said the warplanes were transported overland for security reasons in a “complicated...

Slovakia's central bank chief fined for bribery, faces trial

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — The head of Slovakia's central bank, who is a member of the European Central Bank committee that decides monetary policy for 20 countries, was convicted Thursday of bribery and fined 100,000 euros ($110,000). The country’s Special Criminal Court handed...

Slovakia delivers first 4 Soviet-era MiG-29 jets to Ukraine

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — The first four of 13 Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets that Slovakia decided to give Ukraine have been safely handed over to the Ukrainian air force, the Slovak Defense Ministry said on Thursday. The ministry said the warplanes were flown from Slovakia to...