-
04/27/2023
The Prague city government website was down on Thursday due to a targeted attack by a Russian hacker group, the Czech News Agency reports. Jiří Károly, director of one of the municipality's IT departments, said that the attack was due to Czechia's support for Ukraine.
The cyber-attack has been linked to a Russian IP address, but the specific hacking group behind the attack is not yet known. The matter is still being investigated. According to the information available so far, it was the type of cyber-attack known as a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which involves overloading the target servers with a large number of queries.
The number of cyber-attacks by Russian hackers in Czechia has increased since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February last year. Current president Petr Pavel's website was attacked by hackers in the run-up to the presidential elections, and the Foreign Ministry and the Prague city transport company's website have also had to deal with cyber-attacks in recent months.
-
04/27/2023
The Přáslavic 73rd tank battalion has received two more Leopard 2A4 tanks from Germany, news server Seznam Zprávy reported on Thursday. This is the next instalment of 14 tanks and one recovery vehicle that Germany has promised Czechia as a gift for the military aid it has provided to Ukraine, and the third tank that the Czech army has received from Germany so far. The first tank arrived in December, while the remaining 11 combat vehicles should be delivered by the end of the year. The tank recovery vehicle will be delivered next year.
-
04/27/2023
According to Eurostat figures gas prices in Czechia in the second half of 2022 saw the steepest increase in the whole of Europe, rising by a staggering 231 percent year-on-year. Electricity prices rose by 97 percent and were the second highest in the EU. By comparison, neighboring Slovakia had one of the lowest increases in gas prices annually, at just 18 percent. Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala has questioned the accuracy of the figures, saying that they do not reflect reality.
-
04/27/2023
The Czech government has placed the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, on its national sanctions list for supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said on Wednesday. Kirill’s inclusion on the list means that any assets he has in Czechia will be frozen, he is barred from entering the country and cannot undertake any financial transactions here. Patriarch Kirill is the first name to appear on the Czech sanctions list after the government passed its own version of the US Magnitsky Act last year.
-
04/26/2023
Thursday should be partly cloudy to overcast and mostly dry with day temperatures between 10 and 14 degrees Celsius.
-
04/26/2023
The majority of Czechs would support a six-month suspension of generative AI development, according to the outcome of a survey conducted by the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University and the Ipsos agency. The survey showed that while Czechs are optimistic about the possibilities opening up, there is also concern regarding possible abuse of technological progress in the field of AI. Forty-eight percent of respondents said they were concerned about how the development of AI would progress. A test of AI in the media showed that roughly half of respondents were able to correctly identify an AI-generated article.
-
04/26/2023
Child psychiatrists report a steep increase in the number of teenage girls who are self-harming. Their number is reported to have risen by 50 percent in the past decade. Doctors say the situation worsened significantly during the Covid pandemic and the social isolation that accompanied it. Annually, about 3,000 minors are hospitalized for intentional self-harm and psychiatrists say they believe this to be the tip of the iceberg. According to them many children with problems are not getting help. The problem is exacerbated by a pressing shortage of child psychiatrists and physiotherapists.
-
04/26/2023
Archbishop Emeritus of Prague Dominik Duka has spoken out against the abolition of celibacy in the Catholic Church. He made the statement in connection with an interview in which Pope Frances said priestly celibacy could be revised and was not eternal like priestly ordination. The Pope said celibacy in the Western Church is a temporary prescription that could be settled in one way or another. Duka told the ctk news agency he regarded this as a theoretic reflection and did not think that the time had come for such a change.
-
04/26/2023
Czech police have reported an increase in the number of illegal migrants detained on Czech territory in the first quarter of this year. In the January-to-March period police apprehended 2,658 illegal migrants, an increase of 767 persons, or 40.6 %, compared to the same period last year. The highest number of illegal migrants came from Ukraine (1,016 persons), Moldova (456 persons) and Syria (146 persons).
-
04/26/2023
The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Jan Lipavský, has responded sharply to comments his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, made following the publication of an interview with Czech President Petr Pavel.
Mr. Lavrov on Tuesday said that Mr. Pavel’s assertion that China was not interested in peace in Ukraine did not correspond to the activities of a “normal political representative”.
Mr. Lipavský later wrote on Twitter that Mr. Lavrov was a “clown”. He said Russia was a terrorist state and that its leaders belong in front of an international tribunal.
President Pavel told reporters on Wednesday that Russian officials frequently resort to lies and it is pointless to comment on Lavrov’s words.
Pages
- « první
- ‹ předchozí
- …
- 423
- 424
- 425
- 426
- 427
- 428
- 429
- 430
- 431
- …
- následující ›
- poslední »