Tuesday’s top news, all in one place. Slovakia declares nationwide emergency Prime Minister Robert Fico has warned that the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease — a highly contagious viral illness ...

Turiec, a region in central Slovakia, has had a brush with the exotic. Locals recently spotted not one, but two out-of-place animals in the wild. On Sunday evening, March 16, a porcupine was seen ...

All susceptible animals within a three-kilometre radius of the confirmed foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Slovakia will be culled, and national preventive measures will include a ban on the movement ...