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People arrive with their luggage before the departure of a bus slated to evacuate foreign passport holders, mainly Europeans, out of Israel, at a meeting point in Tel Aviv on June 17, 2025. The operation, coordinated by the Polish embassy, aims to evacuate several hundred people who will board buses headed to Sinai in Egypt, and from there continue to Warsaw, Poland. (Photo by Menahem Kahana / AFP)
June 17, 2025, 11:53 pm
Evacuees from Israel arrive in Slovakia, Czech Republic as foreigners flee conflict
Poland says it’s planning to evacuate citizens via Jordan, as Taiwan did Sunday, while Germany tells nationals to sit tight; Iran spirits foreign envoys and families across border
By Agencies and Sharon Wrobel
A battery of Israel's Iron Dome missile defense is seen in Ashkelon, August 7, 2022. (AP/Ariel Schalit, File)
August 28, 2024, 3:07 pm
Slovakia set to buy six air defense systems from Israel, as NATO boosts defenses
Bratislava approves $616m purchase, after it previously gave an aging air defense system to Ukraine
By Reuters
Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico, center, speaks with people before the cabinet's away-from-home session in the town of Handlova, Slovakia, May 15, 2024. (Radovan Stoklasa/TASR via AP)
May 15, 2024, 6:36 pm
Slovak PM in life-threatening condition after being shot at political meeting
Pro-Russian leader shot four times in town of Handlova, evacuated by helicopter; European leaders express ‘shock’ after apparent assassination attempt
By Agencies
Former Prime Minister Robert Fico arrives at his party's headquarters after polling stations closed for an early parliamentary election, in Bratislava, Slovakia, September 30, 2023. (Darko Bandic/AP)
October 1, 2023, 11:33 am
Pro-Russia former premier leads leftist party to victory in Slovakia elections
Populist Robert Fico’s opposition to supplying arms to Ukraine could strain fragile unity on matter in European Union and NATO
By Agencies and ToI Staff
File: A view of a MIG-29 fighter jet, at the 11th SIAF International Aviation Day at the Malacky-Kuchyna Air Base, in Kuchyna, Slovakia, August 27, 2022. (Jaroslav Novak/TASR via AP)
March 17, 2023, 3:25 pm
Slovakia, after Poland, agrees to supply Ukraine with Soviet-era fighter jets
PM Eduard Heger declares Slovakia on ‘right side of history’ as Kremlin warns NATO over move: ‘May bring more misfortune to Ukraine’
By Karel Janicek
People lay flowers and light candles at the scene of Wednesday's attack on Zamocka Street in Bratislava, Slovakia, October 13, 2022. (Pavol Zachar/TASR via AP)
October 13, 2022, 6:18 pm
Man suspected of killing 2 in Slovakia found dead; authored antisemitic manifesto
Gunman allegedly killed two men, injured a woman in shooting at LGBTQ popular bar in Bratislava; reportedly posted rant against Jews, LGBTQ community
By AP
Marian Kotleba, chairman of the far-right People's Party Our Slovakia, walks to arrive at the Supreme Court in Bratislava, Slovakia, on February 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
April 5, 2022, 8:27 pm
Court overturns jail time for Slovakian far-right politician on neo-Nazi charges
Appeals court dismisses ruling that Marian Kotleba illegally used neo-Nazi symbols; Kotleba gets a six-month suspended sentence for sympathizing with neo-Nazism
By AP
A photo taken on April 9, 2021 shows old train tracks leading past a former canteen building of SS guards at the former Nazi Germany death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, Poland (BARTOSZ SIEDLIK / AFP)
March 25, 2022, 6:36 pm
Slovakia parliament condemns mass Holocaust deportations of Jews to Nazi death camps
Over 70,000 Slovakian Jews taken to concentration camps, with authorities paying Nazi Germany for each Jewish citizen who was transported; extreme far-right party skips vote
By AP
Internet activist Avi Shiffmann creating his new website UkraineTakeShelter.com aimed at helping Ukrainian refugees find hosts in other countries. (Courtesy)
March 4, 2022, 6:28 pm
Harvard internet whiz, 19, creates website connecting Ukrainian refugees with hosts
Founder of heavily used COVID tracking site, student Avi Schiffmann enables those fleeing the war to locate appropriate nearby sanctuary by clicking a link on a smartphone
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Screen capture from video of the AirCar in fligth
January 27, 2022, 9:55 am
Slovakian flying car officially cleared for takeoff
Country’s transport authority issues certificate of airworthiness for Aircar that can fly at 170 km/h and travel 1,000 kilometers — though it needs a 300-meter runway to take off
By AFP
Two Auschwitz prisoners escape in a scene from 'The Auschwitz Report' (Samuel Goldwyn Films via JTA)
September 25, 2021, 10:11 am
‘The Auschwitz Report’: Slovakian film tells of escapees who tried to warn world
Movie focuses on Rudolph Vrba, Alfréd Wexler — Slovak Jews who escaped from death camp with fastidious notes, only for their desperate pleas to meet with uncaring bureaucracy
By Andrew Lapin
Pope Francis prays, as he meets members of the Jewish community in Bratislava, Slovakia, on September 13, 2021. (AP Photo/ Gregorio Borgia)
September 13, 2021, 7:48 pm
Meeting with Slovakian Jews, Pope Francis speaks of Holocaust ‘shame’
In country where puppet regime deported some 75,000 Jews to death camps, pontiff calls for more work to end antisemitism
By Agencies
Pope Francis, flanked by Slovakian President Zuzana Caputova, right, attends a welcoming ceremony at the presidential palace in Bratislava, Slovakia, Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
September 13, 2021, 2:12 pm
Pope Francis to visit Holocaust memorial in Bratislava
A day after his trip to Hungary, the pope is slated meet the Slovakia Jewish community and atone for Catholic complicity in World War II-era racial laws and crimes
By Nicole Winfield and Karel Janicek
Pope Francis attends a meeting with bishops at the Apostolic Nunciature in Bratislava, Slovakia, on September 12, 2021. (REMO CASILLI / POOL / AFP)
September 12, 2021, 9:03 pm
Pope Francis arrives for 4-day visit to Slovakia, will meet Holocaust survivors
Trip follows brief visit to Hungary, in which pontiff warned of ‘the threat of antisemitism still lurking in Europe and elsewhere’
By AFP
A woman passes a wall with an image of the former Neolog Synagogue next to the Holocaust Memorial located in the center of Bratislava's Old Town on September 9, 2021.(VLADIMIR SIMICEK / AFP)
September 12, 2021, 4:07 am
Slovakia Jewish leaders hope pope’s visit will heal Catholic ties
Pontiff set to meet members of the Bratislava Jewish community, including Holocaust survivors
By Laszlo Juhasz
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