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Police in Prague and Ostrava say they have recorded around 300 cases of fake or repeatedly sold tickets for games in the World Ice Hockey Championships. Damages resulting from the sale of illegitimate tickets during the first four days of the tournament amount to around CZK 700,000, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.

The great majority of the cases have been reported in Prague, the police said. Most of the victims to date have been Czech hockey fans.

It should be mainly sunny in Czechia on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 22 degrees Celsius. Cloudy skies and lower temperatures are expected on the following days.

The average temperature in Czechia in April was 10 degrees Celsius, 1.5 degrees higher than the long-term average taken from measurements between 1991 and 2020, the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute said in their monthly assessment of weather patterns in the country. The first half of the month was particularly warm, with the temperature in some parts of the country exceeding 25 degrees Celsius as early as April 1. The first so-called "tropical day", where temperatures exceeded 30 degrees Celsius, was April 7, the earliest record of a tropical day in observational history, according to the institute. However, the second half of the month was exceptionally cold, with snow and frost damaging crops across the country.

The German state of Saxony has asked Czechia for increased cooperation on the Czech-German border when it comes to migration, Interior Minister Vít Rakušan told reporters after meeting with his Saxon counterpart Armin Schuster on Monday. Mr Schuster stated that the migration situation is under control, but that the reason for the border controls is security and the hybrid war that Russia is waging in addition to restricting migration. The two ministers also discussed cooperation between Saxony and Czechia during natural disasters such as forest fires.