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08/02/2019
Greenpeace is protesting against the Environment Ministry’s decision to grant approval for extended mining at the Bílina coal mine until 2035.
Greenpeace claims the decision goes against the Czech Republic’s international commitments stemming from the Paris Climate Agreement and would like to see it overturned.
The Environment Ministry counters that it did not grant approval as such, merely issued a recommendation in favour of an extension on condition that the Bílina Coal Mine fulfils 31 environmental requirements. A final decision will be made by the Czech Mining Authority.
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08/02/2019
Diplomats from 11 countries will take part in the Gay Pride parade traditionally held within the Prague Pride festival due to begin on Monday, Michael Vlček from the Canadian Embassy told journalists.
The diplomats will march under the banner Diplomats for Equality. The heads of 16 diplomatic missions also signed a joint proclamation in support of equal rights for the LGBT community.
The ninth edition of Prague Pride will be held from August 5 -11 and will offer over 140 different events including concerts, debates and street happenings.
For the first time this year the LGBT rainbow flag will be flown at the city’s Town Hall in support of the festival.
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08/02/2019
An exhibition marking 100 years of Czech Egyptology opened at Prague’s Carolinum on Thursday. The exhibition titled Between Prague and Cairo highlights the beginnings of Czech Egyptology in the first decides of the 20th century, the work of the Czech Egyptology Institute(CIE) and excavation work in Egypt and Sudan.
The CIE focuses in particular on two specific historical eras of ancient Egypt: the Old Kingdom and the Late Period.
Czech Egyptologists have made a number of significant discoveries in Egypt, unearthing the tomb of an Egyptian dignitary dating back to the end of the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom and most recently revealed the identity of an ancient Egyptian queen at a pyramid complex in south Saqqara near Cairo.
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08/02/2019
Czechs are increasingly acquiring exotic animals as pets or status symbols, the news site novinky.cz reports, citing data from the Czech Environmental Inspectorate.
There are presently 173 tigers registered in the country, of which only forty are located in licensed zoos, the remaining 133 tigers are in private ownership. Of the 236 lions registered, 26 are in zoos, the rest in private ownership,78 leopards of which 43 are in private hands and 135 pumas of which only three are held in zoos.
Snakes and exotic birds are also increasingly popular, with 236 rattlesnakes and 200 cobras registered with the Czech Environmental Inspectorate.
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08/01/2019
Friday should be partly cloudy to overcast with scattered showers and daytime highs between 23 and 27 degrees Celsius.
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08/01/2019
Doctors have registered 121 new cases of HIV in the first six months of this year, according to the National Reference Laboratory for HIV/AIDS of the State Health Institute in Prague.
Last year the number of infected persons registered was 208 - the lowest in seven years. According to the lab’s data there are currently 3488 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.
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08/01/2019
The regional court in Plzeň has sentenced a forty-six-year-old woman from Moldova to six years in prison for an acid attack against two men and a woman at a night-club in the city. All three suffered severe burns and had to undergo multiple surgery.
The incident apparently happened during a fight and the woman was trying to protect one of the men involved. The verdict is not yet legally binding.
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08/01/2019
An expert analysis has confirmed that no damage was done to Charles Bridge by the unauthorised removal of graffiti from one of its support pillars.
Meanwhile the man responsible for the clean-up job has come forward to explain his motivation to the authorities.
According to the police the man is a professional, who makes a living removing graffiti from buildings. The man reportedly denied that he had cleaned-up the graffiti as a PR stunt and said he had removed the graffiti with steam and hot water so as not to damage the centuries-old stones.
He said he had decided to act because time was running out and after a fortnight it would have been hard to remove the graffiti without using chemicals.
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08/01/2019
Seventy-five percent of Czech territory is now suffering from extreme drought due to high temperatures and high evaporation levels from the soil and water surfaces.
According to the Czech Hydro-meteorological Institute the isolated storms and rain-showers over the past few days brought only partial relief in places and did not improve the overall situation.
Water management facilities have been taking drought regulation measures on the country’s dams, streams and rivers.
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08/01/2019
Czech expats from all around the world will gather in Prague on Thursday for a two-day conference on maintaining their native language skills. The event is organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Czech Schools without Borders, a non-profit organisation established in the 1930s with a mission to teach Czech language and culture to Czech children living abroad.
Part of the event, held at the ministry’s Tuscany Palace, will be a Czech Diaspora Day marking the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.
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