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Action-movie star John Cena has delighted fans after he was spotted eating a burger in a local pub in the historic city center of Žilina, northwest Slovakia.

Hungary will introduce disinfection measures at border crossings and highways after two more farms in the northwest of the country reported cases of foot-and-mouth disease, Agriculture Minister István Nagy has announced.

Foot-and-mouth disease mostly affects cattle and other cloven-hoofed animals.

Poland has introduced strict veterinary checks on its border with Slovakia as it braces for the potential spread of foot-and-mouth disease from its southern neighbor, lawmakers were told on Wednesday.

The environment ministry announced plans to cull 350 brown bears after a fatal attack.

A man has died of “devastating” injuries in an apparent brown bear attack in central Slovakia.

A foot-and-mouth outbreak in Slovakia has reached one of the country’s largest cattle farms.

Slovakia proposed a €20,000 grant for previously banned news websites.

The Slovakian government has declared a state of emergency following the outbreak of a fourth case of foot-and-mouth disease.

A hiker attacked by a rampaging bear had a lucky escape after beating it off with an axe.

Around 10,000 people took to the streets in Bratislava on Friday in the latest protests against Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, local media reported.

Poland has banned imports of a range of Slovak products after outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease were confirmed on farms in Slovakia.

The Czech Republic has swiftly banned livestock imports from Slovakia after a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak on farms in the neighboring country.

Fifteen firefighters responded to the blaze, with support from a volunteer fire brigade.

‘Robert Fico chose Putin, Slovakia chooses Europe,’ the protest organizers said.

The populist prime ministers of Slovakia and Hungary have threatened to block a joint European Union declaration on Ukraine during next week’s summit, calling for a change in the bloc’s strategy on the Ukraine war.

Slovakia’s prime minister will be among right-wing European politicians rubbing shoulders with U.S. conservative luminaries, including President Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk, at this year’s CPAC event.

Tens of thousands of Slovaks returned to a central square in the capital on Friday for the second large protest in two weeks, opposing what they see as a policy shift by Prime Minister Robert Fico aimed at moving closer to Russia.

Slovak state-owned energy supplier SPP began importing Russian gas via the TurkStream pipeline on February 1, with deliveries expected to double in April, local media cited the company’s chairman as saying on Thursday.

Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) has denied orchestrating protests in Slovakia after the country’s prime minister accused it of working though a Georgian group to plot a coup d’etat in Slovakia.