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Thousands of anti-government protesters commemorate the seventh anniversary of the killings of an investigative journalist and his fiancée in Slovakia.

The Slovak prime minister’s parliamentary majority came under threat when several lawmakers defected from their posts.

The system outage forced a plane carrying Prime Minister Robert Fico to turn around and head back to Slovakia.

The latest wave of rallies was fuelled by Fico’s recent trip to Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, a rare visit to the Kremlin by an EU leader since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Slovakia’s Moscow-friendly prime minister has faced accusations by the country’s largest opposition party of trying to take the country out of the EU.

Slovakia’s Moscow-friendly prime minister has faced accusations by the country’s largest opposition party of trying to take the country out of the EU.

The leaders of Ukraine and Slovakia are locked in a spiralling dispute over supplies of Russian gas, and can’t even agree on a location to hold further talks.

The protests started back in December after Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.