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08/14/2022
Czech tennis player Karolína Plíšková has failed to make it into the final of the WTA tournament in Toronto. Plíšková, who is the Czech number one and last year’s runner-up, was defeated by Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil 6-4, 7-6 in just over two hours in Saturday’s semi-final match. The 30-year-old Czech last played for a WTA title in Toronto last year.
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08/14/2022
More than fifty Jewish heritage sites around Czechia will open to the public for free or voluntary admission fee on Sunday as part of the fifth Day of Jewish Monuments.
Visitors will also be able to see cemeteries, synagogues and other buildings, including those that are not usually accessible to the public.
Among the biggest attractions this year are two newly reconstructed synagogues - the Great Synagogue in Pilsen and the synagogue in Čáslav.
The Day of Jewish Monuments initiative is organized by Jewish community in Prague in collaboration with Matana, the administrative body for Jewish buildings and cemeteries and the Federation of Jewish Communities in Czechia.
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08/13/2022
Czech Norbert Köhler has been included among the top-ten most wanted criminals in Spain, the Czech News Agency reported on Saturday, citing the Spanish media. The Spanish police have asked for the public's help in finding him.
The 44-year-old Czech, who was convicted in his home country for robberies linked to the so-called Berdych gang, is being investigated in Spain for transporting 212 kilograms of cocaine and laundering money obtained from drug smuggling.
Köhler was serving a seven-year sentence in a Spanish prison until 2007, when he was extradited to Czechia due to a case of cocaine trafficking from Ecuador. However, he fled the country following his release from custody.
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08/13/2022
Sunday is expected to be mostly overcast with occasional rain showers and storms and day temperatures ranging between 25 and 29 degrees Celsius.
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08/13/2022
Slovak-Czech thriller Nightsiren (Světlonoc) directed by Tereza Nvotová has won the Cineasti del Presente Competition at the Locarno Film Festival, dedicated to emerging directors.
The horror-tinged drama tells a story of a young woman who returns to her native mountain village, searching for answers about her troubled childhood, but as she tries to uncover the truth, the villagers accuse her of witchcraft and murder.
Nightsiren is the second feature of the 34-year-old Slovak director. Her first feature Filthy or Špína wasawarded Best Film at the Czech Critics’ Awards in 2017. She also won the Trilobit Award handed out by the Czech Film and Television Union for her documentary Lust for Power.
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08/13/2022
Evacuated residents of the Hřensko district started to return to their homes on Saturday morning. Dozens of people from the villages of Mezná and Mezní Louka had to be evacuated on July 25 due to a large-scale forest fire in the Bohemian Switzerland national park.
However, the area continues to be closed off for tourists, with the Environment Ministry extending the entry restriction into the park until August 31. The park will also remain completely closed during night time.
The forest fire, which ravaged around 1,000 hectares of land, was declared fully extinguished on Friday after a 20-day-battle. Fire-fighters will remain on site until the end of August to check for hidden outbreaks that may still appear later on.
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08/13/2022
Czech tennis player Karolína Plíšková has reached the semifinals of the WTA tournament in Toronto, after defeating Zheng Qinwen of China 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Plíšková, seeded No.14, took 2 hours and 33 minutes to battle past the 19-year-old Zheng, ranked 51st in the world.
The Czech number one is just one win away from making the National Bank Open final for the second straight year. She will face Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil in the next round, who defeated Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic.
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08/13/2022
Oil shipments from Russia to Czechia through the southern branch of the Druzhba pipeline, which runs through Ukraine, resumed on Friday after more than a week, the Czech pipeline operator Mero said.
Deliveries from the pipeline were suspended by Ukraine on August 4, because it had not received the transit payment from Russia for that month. Although Russia had sent the money in July, the payment could not be processed due to sanctions.
Oil deliveries via the pipeline to Hungary and Slovakia have already been restored. The northern leg of the Druzhba pipeline, which runs through Belarus to Poland and Germany, was unaffected.
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08/13/2022
The 2022 Prague Pride LGBT+ festival, a week-long event celebrating sexual diversity, culminated on Saturday with a traditional rainbow parade through the city centre.
The procession, which has not taken place for two years due to coronavirus restrictions, set off from Wenceslas Square and ended on Prague’s Letná plain, where concerts are held on six different stages.
According to the organizers, some 60,000 people took part in the event.
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08/12/2022
Saturday will be overcast with a chance of rain and day temperatures of up to 23 degrees Celsius.
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