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12/10/2022
The entire Prague Castle Deer Moat will open to the public on Sunday, the Office of the President announced on its web page. The upper part of the natural ravine below Prague Castle is accessible to visitors even now, but the lower part has been closed for reconstruction. Security checks to the Deer Moat and the Prague Castle Gardens are being scrapped at Prague Castle’s request. During Advent, there will also be special attractions for children in the Castle gardens, including an ice rink, a live nativity scene and a First Republic carousel. The grounds will be open to visitors daily from 10 am to 8 pm.
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12/10/2022
Speed skater Martina Sáblíková will miss the World Cup races in Calgary due to injury. The three-time Olympic champion cut her right leg with her skate during a training session on Thursday and doctors had to suture the wound above her ankle with five stitches. Sáblíková was scheduled to compete in the 3000 metres on Friday and in the 1500 and 1000 metres races on Saturday and Sunday.
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12/09/2022
Economist Danuše Nerudová would win the first round of Czechia’s presidential elections with 28 percent of the vote, according to a Median poll published carried out in November and published on Friday. It is an improvement by 13 percent on the October poll.
Nerudová was followed by former Prime Minister and ANO Party leader Andrej Babiš, who won 26.5 percent of the hypothetical vote. Polling in the third place was the retired general and former chairman of the NATO Military Committee Petr Pavel with 23.5 percent.
Both Nerudová and Pavel would beat Mr Babiš if the two faced each other off in a second round of the elections.
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12/09/2022
Saturday is expected to be mostly overcast with snow showers and day temperatures ranging between -1 and 3 degrees Celsius.
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12/09/2022
The Czech humanitarian organisation People in Need has provided more than one billion crowns worth of aid to Ukraine since the Russian invasion of the country began in February of this year.
Over the past nine months, more than half a million people have received assistance from the organisation, People in Need announced in a press release on Friday.
The organisation has over 270 colleagues in Ukraine, who continue to repair damaged houses, water systems and energy sources in cooperation with local partners. They also distribute food and other products to families all over the country.
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12/09/2022
The Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the United Nations in Geneva, Václav Bálek, has been elected President of the UN Human Rights Council.
Mr. Bálek will take up this prestigious post at the beginning of January. It is the first time a Czech representative will chair the UN's main intergovernmental body in the field of human rights.
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said Bálek’s election was the result of Czechia’s long-standing interest in human rights, its active involvement in the Human Rights Council and the emphasis placed on the protection and promotion of human rights by the current government.
The Council, which consists of 47 members, elected by UN Member States for a three-year term, aims to strengthen and promote human rights and fundamental freedoms around the world.
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12/09/2022
Lány chateau, the summer residence of Czech presidents, has opened its door to the public for the upcoming two Advent weekends.
The early Baroque chateau, located in the middle of the Křivoklát forests in Central Bohemia, was bought by the Czechoslovak state in July 1921.
It was rebuilt into a summer residence for Czechoslovakia’s first president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, who moved there permanently after his abdication in 1935 and is buried in the local cemetery.
Lány chateau is rarely open to the public. The last time people had a chance to see it was in September 2018 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia.
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12/09/2022
Czech choreographer Yemi A.D. will be among the eight crew members to join Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa’s crew on a trip around the Moon next year on one of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets.
The Japanese fashion mogul on Friday announced the name of the eight people chose for the journey, which also include DJ Steve Aoki, YouTuber Tim Dodd, Irish photographer Rhiannon Adam, photographer Karim Iliya, Indian actor Dev Joshi, documentary filmmaker Brendan Hall and South Korean K-pop star TOP.
The mission, called #dearMoon Project, was first announced in 2018. It is scheduled to take eight days from launch to return to earth, including three days circling the moon, coming within 200 kilometres of the lunar surface.
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12/09/2022
The speaker of the Czech lower house, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, appealed to her Belarusian counterpart to release Darya Losikova, the wife of Belarusian political prisoner and Radio Free Europe contributor Ihar Losik, the lower house informed on Friday.
Losik was detained in October, while her husband, who is serving a 15-year sentence, has been in prison since December 2021. The letter, initiated by Ms. Pekarová Adamová, was also signed by house speakers of Belgium, Cyprus, Lithuania, Poland and Slovenia. The letter was sent the day before International Human Rights Day, which falls on 10 December.
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12/09/2022
A commemorative plaque for British Royal Air Force pilot Colonel Karel Janšta, a member of the 311th Czechoslovak Bomber Squadron of the RAF, was unveiled in Prague on Thursday. It was placed in Žitná Street in Prague 2, where Janšta lived until his death in 1986. The unveiling ceremony was attended, among others, by Defence Minister Jana Černochová and Janšta's daughter Jana Zachová. Colonel Janšta emigrated to Great Britain in 1940 where he took part in the first air combat missions of the 311th Bombardment Squadron RAF and later became a member of the Czechoslovak State Council in London, where he served as chairman of the military committee. He was later persecuted by the Czechoslovak communist regime.
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