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02/23/2024
Czechia is leading a Europe-wide campaign to collect USD 1.5 billion to buy ammunition for Ukraine from outside the EU, the Financial Times reported on Friday. The newspaper writes that Czechia is spearheading the initiative to compensate for the congressional deadlock on US aid and delays in European production.
Czech President Petr Pavel already announced the plan to buy artillery shells for Ukraine from so-called third countries at the Munich Security Conference last week, but the Financial Times has newly revealed the amount of money Czechia is calling for, citing unnamed sources.
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02/23/2024
Former US president Bill Clinton is due to visit Prague in March at the invitation of President Petr Pavel. Mr. Clinton will be one of the keynote speakers at a conference entitled Our Security Is Not a Given, the organizers of the event said on Friday. Clinton last visited the Czech capital in 2011 to attend the funeral of Václav Havel.
The conference, which will mark the 25th anniversary of Czechia's accession to NATO, will take place on March 12 in the Spanish Hall of Prague Castle. It will be attended by top Czech officials and foreign guests, among them former NATO secretary general George Robertson.
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02/23/2024
Sparta Prague eliminated Turkish team Galatasaray 6-4 on aggregate in the UEFA Europa League playoffs after a 4-1 victory in a second leg match at their home stadium on Thursday.
The Czech football league champions scored three goals after the visiting team were down to 10 men when Galatasaray defender Kaan Ayhan was shown a red card in the 68th minute.
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02/22/2024
Czech tennis player Jakub Menšík has advanced to the semi-final at the WTA tournament in Doha after beating World. No 5 Andrey Rublev 6-4, 7-6. The 18-year-old Czech reached his maiden ATP Tour semi-final within one hour and 38 minutes and became the youngest player to defeat a Top-5 player since Carlos Alcaraz overcame Stefanos Tsitsipas at the US Open in 2021. He will next face Gael Monfils of France for a place in the finals.
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02/22/2024
Almost three-fifths of women in Czechia have been the target of some form of sexual violence during their life, according to a research on the incidence and impact of sexual violence by the NGO proFem. One-fifth of women have experienced rape under the proposed legal definition now being debated by MPs, which is sex without consent.
According to the research, which was presented to the public on Thursday, only six percent of those who have been raped have reported it to the police. The survey also suggests that the annual costs of treating the consequences of sexual violence is approximately CZK 2.3 billion.
The survey was carried out last year among more than 5,000 women aged between 18 and 65.
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02/22/2024
Electricity consumption in 2023 reached 57.8 terawatt hours (TWh), 4.1 percent less than in the previous year, according to data published by the Energy Regulatory Office. It is the lowest figure over the past 14 years. Electricity production has also fallen by around 10 percent year-on-year.
Preliminary data show that along with electricity, gas and heat consumption also declined last year. According to experts, the reasons for energy savings are mainly due to the gradual increase in energy prices as well as the warm weather.
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02/22/2024
Thousands of people took part in a protest rally outside the Liberty Ostrava steelmaker on Thursday calling for the restart of operations. Most of the plant’s 6,000 workers have been at home since December 22, 2023, when the company’s energy supplier TAMEH Czech suspended energy supplies and declared insolvency.
The company, which has an annual capacity of 3.6 million metric tons of steel, is part of the Liberty Steel group owned by commodities tycoon Sanjeev Gupta and primarily serves the construction, engineering and oil and gas industries.
A regional court in Ostrava in December declared a three-month moratorium on all Liberty Ostrava debt repayments and appointed a restructuring trustee.
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02/22/2024
Friday is expected to be overcast with rain and day temperatures ranging between 5 and 9 degrees Celsius.
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02/22/2024
Several hundred Czech farmers joined their European counterparts on Thursday to protest against high energy costs, cheap goods from Ukraine, excessive bureaucracy and the European Union's agricultural policies.
Around 3,000 tractors and other agricultural machinery set off to the border crossings with Slovakia, Poland and Germany. Other Czech farmers are protesting in the centres of major towns, including Prague and Brno.
According to the Czech Agrarian Chamber, which has joined the protest, several thousand Czech farmers are taking part in Thursday’s events. President of the Agrarian Chamber, Jan Doležal has described the situation of farmers as "truly desperate".
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02/22/2024
Czechia will not for the present time extradite Indian national Nikhil Gupta to the US, where he faces charges of conspiring to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader in New York.
The extradition, which was approved by the Prague High Court in January, has been postponed until the Constitutional Court delivers a ruling on the complaint filed by the businessman.
Gupta's indictment was announced last year by New York prosecutors, who said the plot was to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader in New York. The accused faces up to 20 years in prison. He was arrested at Prague airport at the end of June last year.
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