A train collided with a bus in central Slovakia on Saturday, killing 12 people and injuring 21 others, officials said.

A train collided with a bus in central Slovakia on Saturday, killing 11 people and injuring 21 others, officials said.

Serena and Venus Williams won their eighth Grand Slam women’s doubles title Friday, beating Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia and Japan’s Ai Sugiyama 6-3, 6-3 in the final at Australian Open.

Serena and Venus Williams won their eighth Grand Slam women’s doubles title Friday with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia and Japan’s Ai Sugiyama.

European Union antitrust regulators said Thursday they raided Slovakia’s main telecom operator last week on suspicion of monopoly abuse.

Slovakia says it is receiving Russian natural gas through Ukraine again after a nearly two-week cutoff in supplies.

Officials say the Czech Republic is sending emergency shipments of natural gas to neighboring Slovakia.

Slovak leaders say they have secured a deal so that their gas-starved nation will get a new source of natural gas by Monday.

The prime ministers of Slovakia and Bulgaria will meet Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to press for a resumption in natural gas deliveries halted by a dispute between Moscow and Ukraine.

Slovakia’s prime minister says his country is technically ready to restart an aging Soviet nuclear reactor to cope with a natural gas shortage despite threats by the EU to take action if it does.