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04/13/2024
Josef Nuzík has officially become the new archbishop in Olomouc after he was officially inaugurated to the post by Jude Thaddeus Okolo, Apostolic Nuncio to Czechia during a service in the city’s St. Wenceslas Cathedral on Saturday.
The event, which was broadcast on a large screen on Olomouc’s Wenceslas Square, was attended by 24 bishops from Czechia and abroad as well as by government representatives and church leaders.
Mr. Nuzík, who is 57, was appointed Archbishop of Olomouc by Pope Francis on 9 February. He replaces Jan Graubner in the office, who became Prague Archbishop in 2022.
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04/13/2024
Mountaineer Klára Kolouchová became the first Czech woman to reach the summit of Annapurna, the Czech News Agency reported, citing the website exlorersweb.com.
Kolouchová, who is 45, ascended the 8,091-metre high Himalayan peak and the tenth highest mountain in the world on Friday morning with a group of Nepalese Sherpas. The expedition also included Ukrainian Iryna Karaganova and British Samiur Rashidova.
Kolouchová is also the first Czech woman who successfully ascended all the of the world’s highest peaks, Mt. Everest, Kanchenjunga and K2.
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04/13/2024
A one-day national food collection began in Czechia on Saturday morning. Some 2,100 shops and supermarket chains, including online ones, are taking part in the event, which has been held twice annually since 2019.
The collection is focused on non-perishable foodstuffs and hygiene products, which are later distributed to the needy, including seniors, single mothers, the handicapped, disadvantaged families and children in care homes. Over the past 11 years, it succeeded in gathering 4,860 tonnes of goods.
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04/12/2024
Jenny Sividya, a survivor of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel in which 1200 people were killed and 250 kidnapped, will attend Sunday's Culture against Antisemitism event in Prague, the Czech News Agency reports. The goal of the event is to commemorate and draw attention to the events of October 7, one of the organisers said. Jenny Sividya said that the October 7 Hamas attack is increasingly being disputed or denied and their only goal is to tell people that it happened.
Sunday's event will start at 2:00 p.m. with a march starting in Old Town Square and ending in the Wallenstein gardens, where the main part of the program will take place, with the stories of people who experienced the October 7 attack will be performed by actors. The event will also discuss the current situation in Gaza, where the UN warns there is a threat of famine and 33,545 Palestinians have been killed in retaliatory attacks by Israel.
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04/12/2024
The lower house of the Czech parliament has approved the coalition's proposal to increase care allowances for people with disabilities and to increase support for the provision of social services in their home environment. From July, contributions to care will increase by roughly one-tenth to two-fifths.
The lower house rejected proposals by the opposition to increase some benefits by even more than was suggested by the government. The proposal will now go to the Senate.
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04/12/2024
Czechia has still not caught up with the EU average in terms of health even 20 years after joining the European Union, the National Institute for Research on Socioeconomic Impacts of Diseases and Systemic Risks (SYRI) stated in a press release on Friday. Mortality from preventable causes is 25 percent higher in Czechia than the EU average. Life expectancy in Czechia since the country joined the EU has increased by roughly four years, but the difference between the Czech (79.1) and EU (80.7) average life expectancies is still practically the same as it was two decades ago.
The SYRI says the typically unhealthy lifestyle of Czechs is mostly to blame, such as excessive alcohol consumption, smoking, poor diet and lack of physical activity.
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04/12/2024
Saturday should continue to be warm and sunny with some clouds. Daytime temperatures could reach up to 22 degrees Celsius. No rain is expected.
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04/12/2024
More information has been released regarding Prime Minister Petr Fiala's trip to the United States early next week. As well as his much-anticipated visit to the White House to meet with President Joe Biden, the Czech prime minister will also meet with the head of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, and other members of Congress. Also on the itinerary are a meeting with Czechs living in the US, a visit to the memorials of the late Czech presidents Václav Havel and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, and a speech at the Hudson Institute.
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04/12/2024
Czechia is negotiating a bilateral security agreement with Ukraine, Czech President Petr Pavel said at a press conference after the Three Seas Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania on Thursday. He said the document could be signed as early as May or June, but added that it is too early to reveal any concrete details about what exactly it will contain. However, he did mention that it would be largely to do with defence, and may involve supplying material or non-material help such as support with intelligence information or technologies, defence industry cooperation or the transfer of production to Ukrainian territory.
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04/12/2024
A baby gorilla was born at Prague Zoo on Thursday night, the head of the zoo, Miroslav Bobek, reported on social media site X in the early hours of Friday morning. This is the second baby gorilla born in Prague Zoo this year - a baby female named Mobi was born in January. The new baby lowland gorilla was born to the 30-year-old female Kijivu.
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