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11/11/2023
People around Czechia are donating food and basic hygiene products for the needy on Saturday within the bi-annual National Food Collection.
Some 2,000 shops and supermarket chains around the country have joined the collection to help seniors, singles mothers, the handicapped, disadvantages families and children in care homes. People can also donate products bought online.
According to Aleš Slavíček, executive chairman of the Czech Federation of Food Banks, the demand for food aid has risen steeply in recent months, increasing by 20 to 30 percent in some regions.
Last year, food banks supported around 300,000 people, but there are significantly more that would need help, with around a million people in the country living on the brink of poverty.
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11/11/2023
Czech tennis players Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková sent Czechia into the semi-finals of the 2023 Billie Jean King Cup with a deciding doubles win over the United States.
The seven-time Grand Slam doubles champions beat Danielle Collins and Taylor Townsend 6-3 7-5 in their decisive match on Friday, completing a 2-1 comeback against the US team on the indoor hard court in Seville.
The Czech team will face Canada on Saturday for a place in the Billie Jean King Cup final.
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11/10/2023
Saturday is expected to be wet and overcast, with daytime temperatures of between 4 and 7 degrees Celsius.
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11/10/2023
The Czech Railway Administration presented its updated proposal for Prague's Vyšehrad Railway Bridge to city councillors on Friday. The plan envisages replacing the old bridge from 1901, which is part of Prague's protected cultural heritage zone, with a new design and expanding it from the current two tracks to three.
The association Nebourat, which is against the demolition of the bridge, presented data on Wednesday that they say proves that the change is unneeded. The Railway Administration also refuted the findings of Nebourat's study as part of Friday's presentation.
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11/10/2023
The Czech Labour Inspectorate is investigating the case of two men who died on May 26 this year while working to ventilate the shaft of a heat pipe at the Temelín nuclear power plant. A spokesman for the state labour inspectorate told the Czech News Agency that they are investigating both energy company ČEZ, which operates the Temelín power plant, as well as the contractors and subcontractors who participated in the construction of the heat pipe. The police are also investigating the case, but have not yet released any information about the incident.
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11/10/2023
Prime Minister Petr Fiala is ending his week-long tour of sub-Saharan Africa on Friday with a visit to the West African country of Côte d'Ivoire. In the morning he launched the Czech-Ivorian business forum and held talks with his Ivorian counterpart Prime Minister Robert Beugré Mambé and Vice President Tiémok Koné. Later on, he will visit a hospital supplied with Czech medical equipment, before returning to Czechia in the evening.
The prime minister was accompanied on his trip, during which he visited Ethiopia, Kenya, and Ghana as well as Côte d'Ivoire, by a large business delegation. A planned visit to a fifth country, Nigeria, was cancelled at the last minute by the Nigerian government, citing inability to provide "adequate reception".
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11/10/2023
A court in České Budějovice has begun hearing the case of two men accused of causing the death of two women in the Austrian Alps due to negligence and misconduct. The men are accused of illegally leading expeditions through the Alps without a licence.
The first woman died in 2019 when one of the men organised an expedition of two dozen people to Austria, but instead sent his friend, the second of the two men, in his place as leader of the group. According to the South Bohemian police, this second man was not qualified to be a professional mountain guide and did not have the necessary experience to lead such a large number of people in difficult terrain. He also went ahead with the expedition despite warnings about bad weather and possible thunderstorms. The police argue that as a result of all these factors, one member of the group, a 24-year-old woman, slipped and suffered fatal injuries after a steep fall during a dangerous descent.
The Czech Association of Mountain Guides expelled the first man from the association and he lost his guide qualification. However, he continued to organise other tours even without a license, and in 2020, he organised another group hike where another woman died after the guide failed to properly respond to the signs she was showing of mental and physical exhaustion. The woman fell from a height of about 50 metres during the descent and died. In both cases, the accused men tried to conceal from the authorities the fact that they were the organisers of the expedition.
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11/10/2023
The Czech Banking Association has downgraded its economic outlook for this year and 2024. It expects GDP to fall by 4 tenths of a percent this year, while next year the economy should return to moderate growth, but only by less than two percent. According to Jakub Seidler, chief economist at the banking association, this is mainly due to lower foreign demand and lower household consumption.
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11/10/2023
Czech Education Minister Mikuláš Bek on Thursday met with the head of the teachers’ unions, František Dobšík, in an effort to avert a nationwide strike in schools on November 27, according to Czech Television. Minister Bek said he would inform Prime Minister Petr Fiala about the situation, and request an additional CZK 5 billion in spending for 2024. Ministry spokesperson Tereza Fojtova, said that the ministry was also preparing for the possibility that the strike will go ahead and was negotiating with school principals about ways to minimize the impact on children and parents.
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11/09/2023
Russia is playing for time to get the upper hand in the war with Ukraine, and continued support from the West is crucial, Czech President Petr Pavel said at Thursday’s conference Diplomacy and Security held at the headquarters of the Czech Foreign Ministry. Russia’s victory would be our defeat, the president said, noting that Russia’s imperialist ambitions reach far beyond Ukraine’s borders.
The former head of NATO’s Military Committee said that Russia’s strategy was a drawn-out conflict which would give it time to top up both equipment and human resources. We are seeing massive weapons deliveries from North Korea and efforts to violate the sanctions against Russia, Pavel said.
He said Russia was dragging out the conflict so as to benefit from war fatigue and was waiting for the outcome of the US presidential election in the hope that America might halt military support to Kyiv.
The president also spoke about the disruption of the world order which he said is now evident almost everywhere. “Frozen conflicts are thawing in the Caucasus, and the wave of military coups in African countries, especially in the Sahel, is causing increasing concern. The explosive potential of the current crisis in the Middle East, sparked by Hamas' barbaric attack on Israel, is evident above all else," the president said.
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