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08/17/2020
Organisers of the annual Czech Press Photo contest have announced they will accept entries throughout September, as usual. But the awards ceremony has been postponed until December and will take place at the National Museum.
Prizes will be awarded to photographers in seven categories: News, Reportage, Everyday Life, Art and Culture, Sport, Portraiture, Humanity and the Environment.
The jury comprises Joe Klamar of Agence France-Presse, Nicole Tung of the US, Australian photographer Christopher McGrath of Getty Images, Czech photographer Herbert Slavík and head of the ČTK photo bank Petr Mlch.
The now-traditional Prague Grant, a year-long creative scholarship awarded by City Hall for capturing transformations of the Czech capital, has become a kind of a “second main prize” in the contest. The grant is awarded by the Mayor of Prague in person.
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08/17/2020
Occasional rain is in the forecast for Tuesday throughout much of the country. Daytime highs should range from 21 to 24 degrees Celsius.
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08/17/2020
Czech professional football teams will no longer be required to quarantine all members of a club if a single player tests positive for coronavirus. This follows from an agreement between the Czech Football League and Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO).
However, under the agreement, teams now must be tested for Covid-19 ahead of every match. The agreement came on the heels of a new case hitting the Slavia Prague club last week, which forced the two-time defending national champions to suspend their training camp in Austria.
The resumed Czech football league season was officially abandoned in the third week of July after a positive coronavirus case forced quarantine at an Opava club battling relegation. Slavia Prague had already clinched the title and Plzen, Sparta Prague, Jablonec and Liberec locked up European places.
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08/17/2020
The Czech state has neglected to properly inspect, maintain and repair bridges spanning the nation’s roads and motorways, the Supreme Audit Office says in a report published on Monday. The results could be tragic, it charges.
The Ministry of Transport noted following the report’s release that on Friday Minister Karel Havlíček (unaffiliated) had announced plans to inspect all 24,300 railway and road bridges in the country.
In total there are some 17,500 bridges spanning Czech roads and motorways. Some are administered by the state while other are the responsibility of district authorities. According to the Supreme Audit Office, around one in five are in poor or dilapidated condition.
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08/17/2020
All combat units of the Czech Army will be fitted out with the Bren 2 assault rifle after the Ministry of Defence signed a contract worth more than CZK 2 billion with domestic arms manufacturer Česká zbrojovka, which designed the weapon, Czech Television reported on Monday.
In total, Česká zbrojovka will supply more than of these 16,000 assault rifles, which are already being used by Czech troops in foreign missions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Mali. The Bren 2 is lighter, shorter and more easy to handle than the army’s previous main assault rifle, according to Czech Television.
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08/17/2020
Tests detected 121 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, meaning that the total number of infections has crossed 20,000 since the virus was first detected in the country, Health Ministry data shows. Currently 5,816 people are fighting the coronavirus, while nearly 70 percent of past patients have fully recovered.
More than a quarter of all cases have been detected in the Moravian-Silesian Region, where the virus rampage has been most serious. Prague comes in second with 4,367 cases in total, followed by the Central Bohemian Region, where 2,277 people have so far been infected with COVID-19.
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08/16/2020
The visit of Senate Speaker Miloš Vystrčil to Taiwan is in conflict with Czech foreign policy and will carry consequences that will affect the Czech Republic, Interior Minister Jan Hamáček said on Czech Television this Sunday. Mr. Vystrčil, who was discussing the issue with Mr. Hamáček on the weekly Otázky Václava Moravce political debate programme, said that the trip will be beneficial to Czech-Taiwanese economic relations and will be a clear statement of sovereignty in Czech foreign relations.
When it came to the question of ongoing protests in Belarus against President Alexander Lukashenko, both politicians agreed that it is necessary to support pro-democratic forces in that country and hit the current regime with sanctions. -
08/16/2020
Temperatures are expected to hover around 27 degrees Celsius on Monday. Meteorologists say rain is likely over much of the central and western parts of the Czech Republic, with the possibility of storms around Plzeň.
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08/16/2020
Czech tennis players Lucie Hradecká and Kristýna Plíšková have won their first doubles WTA tournament after they beat the Romanian pair of Monica Niculescu and Raluca Olaru at the Prague Open on Sunday.
The Czech duo won the game in two sets, 6:2 and 6:2. For Kristýna Plíšková it is the fifth doubles trophy, while her partner Lucie Hradecká added her 24th title to her doubles WTA career. -
08/16/2020
The European Union must encourage Belarusians, so that they do not fear to realise a velvet revolution of the type that happened [in Czechoslovakia] in 1989, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš tweeted on Sunday. He wrote that the Visegrad Four countries (Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia) as well as the Baltic states have to “play their role”. The Czech PM will reveal further details about what he means by this in a video this evening that will be shared on social media.
Mr. Babiš also wrote on Twitter that a repeat of what happened in Czechoslovakia in 1968, when Warsaw Pact troops quelled the Prague Spring, must not take place in Belarus, possibly reacting to speculation that Russia may intervene in support of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who is the target of ongoing protests in the country.
The Czech Prime Minister told the Czech News Agency that his government will not be looking into the situation in Belarus at its regular Monday meeting. This subject, he said, is being discussed on the European level.
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