Czech Republic

Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek has canceled his visit to Montenegro because of a hacking attack targeting his email.

Zaoralek's two-day visit to Serbia, however, will proceed as planned. The minister's office announced today he would depart for Belgrade late on Thursday.

Turkey suffered the largest decline in freedoms among 195 countries over the past year, an annual report published by the Washington-based Freedom House showed on Jan. 31.

The Greek unemployment rate is the highest among the19 Eurozone countries, according to official data released by Eurostat Tuesday. The figures revealed that the jobless rate in Greece stood at 23%, compared to the EC19 average of 9.6. The data showed that Greece also had the highest number of unemplotyed youth with 44.2%, followed by Spain (42.9%) and Italy (40.1%).

According to International Transparency’s Corruption Perception Index, Greece dropped 11 spots on the list of countries seen as corrupt in 2016 compared to 2015. Greece fell to 69th spot from 58 in 2015, according to Greek newspaper Kathimerini.

Ten people lost their lives on Sunday as the result of the extreme conditions in Poland. The temperature remains many degrees under zero. In some areas it has reached as low as -20.

The people that fell victims of hypothermia since November 1st are 65 in total.

SHENZHEN - Young Serbian tennis player Nina Stojanovic beat Tunisian Ons Jabeur 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Wednesday to reach the quarter-finals of the WTA tournament in Shenzhen, China.

Stojanovic, a qualifier who has made it to the main draw, came from behind to win after two hours and twenty minutes of play.

SHENZHEN - Serbia's top-ranked female tennis player Jelena Jankovic has suffered an early exit at the Shenzhen WTA tournament after losing 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 to Romania's Simona Halep in the first round.

World number four Halep, who won after an hour and 49 minutes of play, will next face Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic.

The controversial decision to restart a tender procedure for the design and construction of Bulgaria's road toll system has been blocked by yet another appeal, officials have confirmed.

The tender will be brought to a halt, Focus News Agency quotes outgoing Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova as saying.

All 12 victims of the truck attack in Berlin have been identified. According to the online edition of Spiegel, six men and six women were killed. Out of the 12 victims eight are German, four are foreigners - from the Czech Republic, Italy, Israel and Poland.

Among the injured, there are citizens of Israel, Hungary, Finland, Spain and the UK. Most of them are still in hospital.

Millions of dollars’ worth of U.S.-supplied drones that Kiev had hoped would help in its war against Russian-backed separatists have proven ineffective against jamming and hacking, Ukrainian officials say.