Robert Kaliňák, Slovakia’s minister of defense, said that Fico “suffered multiple injuries,” but did not provide any details when reporters asked if the prime minister was shot in the stomach.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is transported from a helicopter on a stretcher by medics and his security detail to a hospital in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, where he was being treated for ...

The clip showed Prime Minister Robert Fico greeting a crowd on Wednesday afternoon, when a man in a white shirt lunged across the crowd with a pistol pointed at the politician.

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot multiple times Wednesday in an attempted assassination and is in a “life-threatening state,” according to his Facebook page.

Mr. Fico’s condition stabilized overnight, and doctors were carrying out more procedures in an effort to improve his condition, Deputy Prime Minister Robert Kalinak said Thursday morning outside ...

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is reportedly in critical condition after he was wounded in a shooting following a political event on Wednesday, May 15. 'Slovakia is experiencing the worst day ...

Robert Fico has long been a controversial figure in Slovakia, a central Eastern European country of about 5.4 million people and a member of the European Union.

Prime Minister Robert Fico in July. The Slovakian leader, who has been purging his opponents from a wide range of institutions, survived an assassination attempt in May. Radovan Stoklasa/Reuters ...

Robert Fico - he came to power last October, but, to use an American expression, this is not his first rodeo. He has served in the past as Slovakia's prime minister, going back years.

Topline Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico remains in a serious but stable condition on Thursday morning, according to officials from the hospital where he is being treated, a day after he was ...

Rescue workers take Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who was shot and injured, to a hospital in the town of Banska Bystrica in central Slovakia on Wednesday, May 15. (Jan Kroslak/TASR via AP) ...

Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico was rushed to hospital in critical condition on Wednesday after he was shot five times in an assassination attempt that shocked the country. The attack took ...