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11/21/2019
People in fifteen Czech towns and cities can gain first-hand experience of homelessness on Thursday night. The annual event titled Sleeping Out in the Open aims to raise awareness of the problems of homeless people and fight prejudices against them.
People taking part in the event organized by charities are encouraged to donate food and clothes to the homeless.
According to available statistics there are 23,800 homeless people in the Czech Republic, of which 2,600 are under 18.
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11/21/2019
The interior ministers of the Visegrad group states and Austria are holding talks on a broad range of security issues in Prague.
Czech Interior Minister Jan Hamáček, who is hosting the meeting at Hrzánský Palace said the main focus of the talks was on illegal migration, border security in Central Europe and cooperation with the UK post-Brexit.
President-elect of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen said earlier the EU must clearly define “illegal” migration and work towards a common security and asylum policy.
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11/21/2019
Senator Marek Hilšer has announced his intention to run in the next presidential elections in 2023. Senator Hilšer said he would run as an independent candidate, which means that he will have to collect 50,000 signatures from the public or alternately get support from ten parliament deputies or twenty fellow senators. He intends to tour the regions to win public support.
Hilšer ran for president in the 2018 election but failed to make it to the run-off in which the incumbent president, Miloš Zeman beat his main rival Jiří Drahoš. President Zeman is not eligible to run for a third term.
Marek Hilšer is a brain tumour specisalist. He was elected to the Senate in the autumn of 2018.
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11/21/2019
40 percent of Czechs aged 16 have tried electronic cigarettes, according to experts from the National Anti-Addiction Helpline. In a press release on the occasion of the International No Smoking Day, the organisation went on to say that 17 percent of 16-year-olds are also regular users. It is expected that the number of those who smoke regular cigarettes, currently some 2.5 million people, will continue to decrease. Around 5 percent of Czech adults smoke e-cigarettes.
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11/21/2019
The consumer loan provider Home Credit will not continue to pursue its previous plans to enter the Hong Kong Stock Exchange due to market conditions, the Czech News Agency reported on Thursday, citing a communique from Home Credit itself.
The company, which is part of the PPF investment group owned by the Czech Republic’s richest man, Petr Kellner, filed for a listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange in July.
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11/20/2019
Since 1990, the number of people suffering from dementia has doubled in the Czech Republic and the mortality rates among such patients has risen by more than a factor of seven in the past 10 years, the Czech News Agency reported on Wednesday, quoting data published by the Czech Alzheimer’s Society and the Czech Statistics Office. Experts say this is down to the overall aging of the population. However, statistics show that the expansion of relevant services is not keeping up with the growth in patients.
Every 13th person in the country over the age of 65 suffers from dementia, statisticians say, and the ratio gets higher with increased age. Last year there were 167,000 people suffering from dementia related diseases, but only 341 homes that offered programmes for patients with dementia with altogether 20,075 beds.
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11/20/2019
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation should focus on fighting international terrorism, the main, if not only, enemy of civilised states, Czech President Miloš Zeman said at a meeting of Czech heads of military command on Wednesday. He and Defence Minister Lubomír Metnar also said they were against a withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The Czech president also mentioned the recent remark by his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, who said in a recent interview with the Economist magazine that NATO was in a state of "brain death". Mr. Zeman said that “if NATO is not to be in a state of brain death, it should become more offensive and realise what its real role in the current world is.”
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11/20/2019
The Czech army will adopt a new command and control system from 2020, which will be divided into three levels: strategic, operational and tactical, the army announced on Wednesday on its Facebook account. Included in the change is the transfer of the Ground Forces Command from Prague to Olomouc on June 1, 2020 and of the Air Force Command to Kbely in the north of Prague in 2021. Meanwhile, in Tabor, a new Territorial Command is being established, which the army says will ensure more flexible use of active reserves.
Information operations in cyberspace, as well as the defence of military systems and the army’s internet will be run by a newly established Cyber and Information Operations Command in the Moravian capital of Brno.
Czech political and military leaders are meeting this Wednesday and discussing the army’s modernisation plans, as well as its role in the NATO alliance and international missions.
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11/20/2019
Mortality rates in the Czech Republic have declined by around one seventh in the last ten years. Those who do die, tend to pass at an older age than in previous decades, according to data presented by the Czech Statistics Office on Wednesday. However, the main causes of death - heart and vascular diseases – remain the same, being responsible for two thirds of the 112,920 deaths last year. Cancer, mainly of the lungs, is another recurrent cause of death.
According to Terezie Štyglerová from the Czech Statistics Office, the top three causes of death are the same for men and women. However, men are more likely to die from accidents, while for women the other main causes of death are Alzheimers, other types of dementia and diabetes.
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11/20/2019
Most of the country will see heavy clouds and rain on Thursday, with temperatures ranging between 9 to 11 degrees Celsius.
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