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10/28/2019
Czechs are celebrating the 101st anniversary of the founding of an independent state of Czechs and Slovaks on October 28, 1918.
The anniversary is being commemorated with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Prague’s Vítkov Memorial, at the grave of the country’s co-founder and Czechoslovakia’s first president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk at Lány near Prague and at Prague Castle where President Zeman is to hand out high state awards to leading personalities on Monday evening.
Among this year’s laureates are former president Václav Klaus, the last surviving Czech RAF pilot Emil Boček, ice hockey legend Jaromír Jágr, Škoda Favorit designer Petr Hrdlička, Srbian film director Emir Kusturica, the head of the Supreme Audit Office Miloslav Kala or, in memoriam, Corporal Tomáš Procházka, who died last year while serving with the Czech military contingent in Afghanistan.
The anniversary is being marked arround the country at landmarks linked to the founding of Czechoslovakia.
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10/27/2019
A number of traditional ceremonies are being held in Prague in connection with the upcoming celebrations of Czechoslovak Independence Day on October 28th. Almost nine hundred new soldiers were sworn in on Hradčanské Square in Prague and, later today, President Zeman will receive foreign diplomats at Prague Castle.
The Czech Army has 25,000 professional soldiers and annually recruits around 2,000 more, to make up for those retiring or leaving the force. The aim is to have 30,000 professional soldiers by 2030. Compulsory military service was abolished in 2004.
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10/27/2019
Monday should be partly cloudy with rain in places and day temperatures between 7 and 11 degrees Celsius.
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10/27/2019
The General Inspectorate of the Security Forces (GIBS) is investigating a shooting in Prague's Horní Počernice district.
According to the news site Novinky.cz, which reported the incident, a police officer fired at a man fleeing from the site of a robbery.
The man, who was hit, is suspected of having stolen a mobile phone in an electronics store. The wounded man was taken to the emergency ward of Vinohrady hospital.
The General Inspectorate is investigating whether the shooting in the street, which presented a threat to the public, was justifiable with regard to the committed offense.
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10/27/2019
A small two-seater aircraft crashed on Sunday morning near the airport in Mikulovice in the Jeseník area. The plane apparently crashed from a height of about 15 metres as it was coming in to land.
Visibility was reportedly good, but there was a high wind blowing at the time of the accident.
The pilot suffered light injuries. Three fire units were called to the emergency. The cause of the accident is being investigated.
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10/27/2019
An accident in which a mother and her two little girls, aged 4 and 6, died in a tragic road accident has made front page news after her teenage daughter posted a video on Facebook claiming that the mother had killed herself and her daughters intentionally after losing a custody battle for the children.
The teenager blamed the authorities for allegedly failing to listen to repeated warnings from herself and other family members that her mother was mentally unstable and could harm the children.
The police have refused to comment on the case during an ongoing investigation. However traffic experts point to the fact that the accident happened on a straight section of the road in clear weather and the mother of two unexpectedly drove into the opposite lane, crashing with an oncoming garbage truck.
One of her little girls died on the spot, the other on the way to hospital.
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10/27/2019
World number 3 Naomi Osaka beat second seed Petra Kvitová 7-6 (7/1), 4-6, 6-4 in the opening match of the WTA Finals in China on Sunday. The three-set marathon lasted for 2 hours and 39 minutes.
The 22-year-old Japanese maintained her unbeaten status over Kvitová having won their only previous clash in three sets in Melbourne.
Kvitová now faces Australia‘s Ashleigh Barty and Belinda Bencic from Switzerland.
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10/27/2019
The winners of Czech Radio’s annual poll for Best Actor/Actress on the Airwaves are Taťjana Medvecká and Ivan Trojan.
Taťjana Medvecká picked up the listeners‘ award for the seventh time in succession as the most popular female actress on the airwaves. The listeners‘ poll has a 23-year-long tradition.
Thirty-three actors and actresses were in the running this year and close to 1,600 listeners took part in the poll.
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10/26/2019
Sunday should be partly cloudy with day temperatures reaching 19 degrees Celsius.
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10/26/2019
The Czech Republic has the fifth largest increase in HIV cases in the period between 2010 and 2018, according to the results of a study published by Politico. It is an increase of 128 percent.
The Philippines top the ladder (203 percent), followed by Egypt (196 percent) and Madagascar (193 percent). Slovakia placed sixth with a 106 percent increase.
According to the National Reference Laboratory for HIV/AIDS there are currently 3,488 persons registered HIV positive in the Czech Republic, of which 3010 are men. 653 persons have developed full-blown AIDS and 307 have died of AIDS.
121 new HIV cases were registered in the Czech Republic in the first 6 months of this year.
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