• Sáblíková wins bronze in 3,000 metres race at Calgary World Championship
    02/16/2024

    Three times Olympics winner Martina Sáblíková won the bronze medal in the women's 3,000 meters race at the World Speed Skating Championship in Calgary on Thursday. It is the 33rd medal for Sáblíková from world championship.

    The 36-year-old Czech finished with a time of 3 minutes 58.33 seconds, which is her personal best this season.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Record high temperatures registered in Czechia
    02/16/2024

    The spell of warm weather continues to break temperature records around the country. Record temperatures for February 15 were seen at 27 out of 165 stations keeping records for 30 years or more.

    The highest temperature, 16.3 degrees Celsius, was registered in České Budějovice – Rožnov in South Bohemia. According to meteorologists, the unusually warm weather is expected to last in the coming days.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czech volunteer dies in Ukraine
    02/15/2024

    A Czech volunteer fighting on the Ukrainian side against the Russian army was killed over the weekend. His death was first reported on the X social network and subsequently confirmed by the Czech Ministry of Defence. In total, four Czech citizens have died in combat since the full-scale invasion by Russia in February 2022.

    The Czech died in fighting for the town of Avdiivka in the Donetsk region after his position was allegedly hit by mortar fire. The volunteer hasn’t been seen since the attack and the place is now occupied by Russian troops.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Five new ambassadors to Czechia to assume office
    02/15/2024

    Five new ambassadors to Czechia are set to present their credentials to President Petr Pavel on Thursday. The new diplomats will represent Albania, North Macedonia, Kyrgyzstan, Gambia and Ethiopia.

    The ambassadors of Albania and North Macedonia will be based in Prague, while the Kyrgyz ambassador will be based in Vienna, where he also serves as ambassador to Austria. Gambia’s ambassador will be based in Brussels and the new ambassador of Ethiopia will based in Berlin.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Weather
    02/15/2024

    Friday will be mostly sunny with occasional clouds and day temperatures ranging between 10 and 14 degrees Celsius.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czechoslovak war veteran Ervín Hoida dies at 105
    02/15/2024

    Ervín Hoida, one of the last Czechoslovak veterans of World War II, who lived most of his life in Great Britain, has died at the age of 105, the Ministry of Defence announced on the social network X on Thursday.

    Hoida, who was born in Ostrava in 1918, escaped Czechoslovakia after the Nazi occupation in 1939 and served in France and later with the Czechoslovak armoured brigade in the UK.

    After D-Day, he took part in the liberation of Europe. He returned to Czechoslovakia in 1945, but went back to the UK few months later due to the rising communist threat.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • New outbreaks of bird flu confirmed in Moravia
    02/15/2024

    Two new outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza were confirmed on Thursday at commercial chicken farms in the Třebíč region in south Moravia. They contain a total of 70,000 poultry.

    Already five outbreaks of bird flu have been confirmed in commercial poultry farming in Czechia since the beginning of the year.

    One of the farms breeds over 13,000 hens that belong to the country’s genetic reserve. The State Veterinary Administration said it was looking into ways of removing the birds from this genetically important breeding stock from culling.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Consumer price growth lowest since March 2021
    02/15/2024

    Year-on-year consumer price growth in Czechia slowed to 2.3 percent in January, down from 6.9 percent in December, according to figures released by the Czech Statistics Office on Thursday. While the figure is the lowest since March 2021, it is still above the Czech National Bank’s two-percent inflation target.

    According to experts, the slowdown in year-on-year inflation was mainly due to housing-related prices. Electricity prices in particular dropped to 13.3 per cent in January, having previously risen by 142.4 percent in December.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Zelensky to hold talks with President Pavel at Munich conference
    02/15/2024

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky plans to hold talks with his Czech counterpart, Petr Pavel, at the Munich Security Conference, the Czech News Agency reported on Thursday, citing the Ukrainian presidential office. The three-day event, due to start in the Bavarian capital on Friday, will focus on war in Ukraine, the fighting in Gaza and the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

    The conference, which is one of the largest international political and security forums, will bring together top officials from world powers, including US Vice President Kamala Harris, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Chinese diplomatic chief Wang Yi and Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog. Czechia will be represented by President Pavel.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • EC downgrades Czech GDP growth estimate to 1.1 % in 2024
    02/15/2024

    The European Commission has downgraded its Czech growth forecast for 2024, predicting that GDP will grow by 1.1 percent instead of the previously expected 1.4 percent.

    According to the EC prediction, growth should be supported by the high saving rate of households over the past three years, the projected easing of inflation and rising real wages, as well as by further relaxation of financing conditions.

    It also points out that recent consumer and business confidence indicators are still below the historical average, indicating an only gradual return to a higher growth rate in private demand.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

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