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01/27/2024
Events marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day to honour the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism will be held around Czechia on Saturday.
A candlelight procession will be held in Terezín, in presence of the head of the Terezín Memorial Jan Roubínek and Vice-President of the European Commission Director of the Terezín Memorial, and Věra Jourová,
A public reading of the names of the Holocaust victims will take place at the castle in Mladá Boleslav, where Jews from the surrounding area were interned between 1940 and 1943.
International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust is celebrated on January 27, the day that Red Army troops entered the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp complex in 1945.
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01/27/2024
The Christian Democrats backed their leader Marian Jurečka to retain the chairmanship and continue his work as Minister of Labour and Social Affairs until the next party congress, which is due to take place in the second half of October.
The decision was taken by the party national committee on Friday evening. Forty-six members of the committee have supported the resolution expressing confidence in Jurečka, while 26 voted against and 12 abstained.
Mr. Jurečka has been facing calls for his resignation within the Christian Democrats over a Christmas party at his Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs hours after a mass shooting in Prague.
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01/26/2024
The reigning world champion in snowboard cross Eva Adamczykova dominated the first World Cup race in St. Moritz. Although she was third in the qualifiers, she triumphed with ease in the elimination phase coming beating home contestant Sophie Hediger and Chloé Trespeuch from France. Kryštof Choura, who advanced to the final for the first time in his career, finished fourth.
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01/26/2024
The Czech lower house on Thursday passed an amendment to the law on weapons and ammunition that requires gun dealers to report suspicious transactions, allows for the confiscation of weapons due to security risks or shortens the time limit for medical examinations of gun owners. Despite opposition from the Interior Ministry, MPs maintained a provision that preserves the right to acquire, own and carry weapons for one’s own protection. The bill will now go to the Senate for debate. The amendment could make it mandatory for gun dealers to report suspicious transactions earlier than 2026, when a new gun law is due to take effect.
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01/26/2024
Saturday should be partly cloudy and mostly dry with day temperatures between 2 and 6 degrees Celsius.
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01/26/2024
Prague councilors have approved a plan to obtain automated trains for the metro’s C line and the D line which is now under construction. The purchase and operating cost of 69 such trains is estimated at CZK 86 billion. The trains are due to be available in 2029 and beyond. The council concluded that the investment is inevitable, since the current trains on the C line will have be replaced after 2034 and in view of the pace of technological development it is no longer worth buying non-automated trains that are serviced by drivers.
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01/26/2024
The Ministry for Regional Development is planning a nationwide database of hotel and motel guests in Czechia, which would be accessible to employees of several public institutions, from the tax authorities to the ministry itself, Czech Radio reported. The database is to go into operation next year. The Data Protection Authority has not filed any complaint against the plan with regard to storage of sensitive data. According to the ministry's plan, the database would be accessible to the tax authorities, the Czech Statistics Office, the Financial Analysis Office, the trade licensing office in the municipality, the municipality itself and the ministry. In the case of foreigners, the foreigners' police would also receive relevant information.
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01/26/2024
“We have a common responsibility to protect the weak and fight against hatred in every form, every day,” Prime Minister Petr Fiala said at a commemorative gathering on Holocaust Remembrance Day held in the Czech Senate. The Speaker of the Senate Miloš Vystrčil said that the horrors of the Holocaust and other crimes against humanity must serve as a warning to us of how far hatred and indifference can lead. The commemorative ceremony in the upper house of Parliament was also addressed by Doris Broulová, a former prisoner of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi camp and chairwoman of the Czech Auschwitz Committee.
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01/26/2024
Czechs are paying their last respects to Jana Hlaváčová one of the country’s leading actresses, who died at the age of 85 last week. Her former colleagues, students and members of the public have been lining up outside Prague’s National Theatre, where her coffin is on display, to bow to her memory, lay flowers and sign condolence books. Among the first to arrive were President Petr Pavel and his wife Eva.
The last farewell for the popular theatre and film actress was organised by the National Theatre in cooperation with the Vinohrady Theatre. Hlaváčová played dozens of roles on both stages. She was with the National Theatre from 1965 to 1990, after which she was a member of the Vinohrady Theatre for 20 years.
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01/26/2024
The Regional Court in Brno has issued a public statement explaining the reasons for the three-year suspended sentence it issued to a man who sexually abused his stepdaughter over a longer period of time. The court said it had taken into account that the man had a clean criminal record, was not a rapist or sexual predator and the initial impulse for sex had come from the victim who allegedly wanted to get back at her mother. Court experts also alleged that the psychological damage to the victim was of a milder nature with a positive prognosis for the future, the court said. The verdict evoked public outrage when the media reported on it adding that the victim had attempted suicide after the court's ruling and was in a mental hospital.
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