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07/26/2024
Extremely hot weather is expected in Czechia on Saturday. The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute has issued a warning that temperatures could reach up to 33 degrees Celsius and in South Moravia even as high as 35 degrees Celsius.
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07/26/2024
The Czech ambassador to Jordan, Alexandr Sporýš, has been dismissed by Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský due to "a managerial failure", Foreign Ministry spokesperson Daniel Drake told the Czech News Agency on Friday. Mr. Sporýš replaced Josef Koutský as ambassador to Jordan last summer.
According to news site Deník N's sources, the reasons for the dismissal were that the embassy in Amman had "ceased to function" under Sporýš's leadership, with employee complaints, bullying and the premature departure of the ambassador's deputy being cited.
Mr. Sporýš himself has denied any instances of bullying and stated that he was not aware of any staff problems at the embassy. He told Deník N that his deputy left for health reasons.
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07/26/2024
Prime Minister Petr Fiala arrived in Paris on Friday for the official opening ceremony at the Czech House in the French capital’s La Villette park. He was welcomed there to the sound of live music by the head of the Czech Olympic Committee, Jiří Kejval.
The Czech House is intended to serve as a base for Czech fans who have come to Paris to watch the Games and as a place for them to meet competing Czech athletes. It will be open to the public from 5.30pm on Friday. The official Olympic Games opening ceremony is due to kick off two hours later.
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07/26/2024
Tennis players Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková won the doubles final at the WTA Prague Open on Friday, in advance of their departure for the Paris Olympic Games. They beat the Czech-American duo of Lucie Šafářová and Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6:3, 6:3 on clay at TK Sparta Prague.
On Saturday they will begin defending their Olympic title from the Tokyo Games in 2021 with a first-round duel against the Taiwanese pair Chan Hao-ching (also known as Angel Chan) and Latisha Chan in Paris.
This was Krejčíková and Siniaková's first time playing together as a doubles team since last November, when they took a break at Siniaková's instigation.
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07/26/2024
Work on building the first section of a planned network of high-speed railway lines in Czechia is due to begin next year, Transport Minister Martin Kupka said on Friday at a conference in Prague for entrepreneurs in the construction industry. The first section of the high-speed network will connect the South Moravian capital of Brno with the town of Přerov in the Olomouc Region. Trains on this new network should be able to travel at speeds of up to 320 kilometres per hour.
Work on the next section between Brno and Břeclav, a town in the South Moravian Region close to the border with Slovakia and Austria, is planned for 2026, while a third route to the Moravian-Silesian Region is scheduled to start in 2028 at the latest. If everything goes well, the construction of the Prague part of the high-speed network should start in 2030, the minister said.
The construction of high-speed railway lines in the country has been discussed since the 1990s, but concrete preparations only started in recent years.
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07/26/2024
The Summer Film School at Uherské Hradiště gets underway on Friday for the 50th time. Among the guests at this year’s edition will be French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin, Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi and veteran Czech actor and musician Jiří Suchý.
The event, which draws thousands of visitors to the Moravian town annually, will open with the world premiere of Hello, Welcome by Czech director Šimon Holý.
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07/26/2024
The Czech wrestler Artur Omarov has been forced to drop out of the Olympics due to an Achilles injury. The athlete sustained the injury in training and underwent surgery before his planned departure for Paris, the Czech Olympic Committee said in a statement.
Tennis player Markéta Vondroušová, who took silver at the last Olympics in Tokyo, had earlier been forced to pull out of the Games due to a hand injury.
The number of Czech athletes competing in Paris now stands at 111.
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07/25/2024
The Czech Office of the Government says that the country’s cabinet acted wholly in compliance with the relevant treaties when on Wednesday it decided on the nomination of the minister of industry and trade, Jozef Síkela, as Czechia’s next European commissioner.
It also said the Czech government had informed the office of the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, of this decision at the time it was made on Wednesday.
The statement was published on Thursday after Ms. von der Leyen sent a letter to all EU governments requesting that each put forward two candidates by the end of August.
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07/25/2024
In the first half of this year Russia conducted a wide range of hybrid operations against Czechia, according to a report on extremism for the six months of 2024 published on Thursday by the Ministry of the Interior.
The report says the aim of Russia’s propaganda is to undermine confidence in the Czech state and to make people feel that its regime represents a healthy alternative.
Its authors also say that the Czech extremist and xenophobic populist scene has changed significantly and that Russian security forces in Czechia have gained a solid and easily influenced base that can be used to spread its influence.
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07/25/2024
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Friday, with an average high temperature of 26 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is expected on the following days.
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