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01/04/2024
Over twenty Czech crews are taking part in this year’s Dakar Rally, which gets underway on Sunday. Among the country’s hopefuls is Martin Prokop, who came sixth in the car category last year.
Also taking part will be Czech rally raid truck driver Aleš Loprais, who withdrew from last year’s race following an incident where a spectator died after being hit by his truck.
This year’s edition of the Dakar Rally is hosted for the fifth time by Saudi Arabia, with almost 800 participants competing on the approximately 8,000-kilometre route.
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01/04/2024
The summer semester at Prague’s Faculty of Arts will start on February 19, according to the original schedule, the faculty’s dean said at a press conference on Thursday. The faculty will remain closed at least until the end of January.
Teaching will take place in all of the faculty’s buildings, including the main building on Jan Palach Square. The only exception is the fourth floor of the building, which will probably remain closed for the entire summer semester.
More than 130 doors were destroyed in the tragic incident in which a student shot 14 people at the faculty on December 21. The cost of the overall damages to the building are now yet known.
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01/04/2024
A commemorative event to honour the memory of the victims of the tragic shooting at the Faculty of Arts took place in Prague on Thursday.
The event, organised by the faculty’s Student Council, started at 1 p.m. in front of the Carolinum building on Ovocný trh. From there, a silent procession led to the faculty’s main building on Jan Palach Square, where the tragic incident happened exactly two weeks ago.
The participants briefly stopped in Celetná Street, where they observed a minute of silence in memory of the victims. The programme ended with the participants forming a human chain around the faculty building.
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01/04/2024
The Telegram account which was widely reported to belong to the perpetrator of the mass shooting at Charles University's Faculty of Arts in December may not actually be his after all, Czech daily Deník N reports. According to their sources, the police are now 90 percent sure that the account does not in fact have anything to do with the killer.
Investigators are currently waiting for more information that they requested from Telegram, after which they will come to their final conclusion, but Deník N's sources said that so far, all the evidence points to the account not belonging to the perpetrator.
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01/04/2024
Some 60 places in Czechia were under flood alert on Thursday morning after several days of heavy rain and melting snow. The highest of the three flood alert levels was reported in Český Krumlov, while around ten measuring stations reported reaching the second level. Another 50 places had the lowest flood warning level.
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01/03/2024
Due to rising water levels in the Vltava, members of the public are no longer allowed to access the river's embankments in Prague as of 4 pm on Wednesday until further notice. Ferry services across the Vltava have also been suspended and the gates to the Four Seasons Hotel by the river near the Staroměstská tram stop have closed. The gates to the Čertovka canal in Prague's Malá Strana district, which have been closed since Christmas, will continue to be so.
Around 50 places in Czechia were under flood alert on Wednesday morning, with water at dangerously high levels especially in the Elbe and Otava rivers.
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01/03/2024
A parliamentary proposal to allow Czech citizens abroad to vote by post in elections has received the support of the government, one of the government's five coalition partners, the Pirate Party, said in a press release. The government discussed the proposal at their first cabinet meeting of 2024 on Wednesday. Czechs abroad could vote by post for the first time in the 2025 parliamentary elections to the lower house, and then utilise the option in presidential, parliamentary and European elections from 2026.
The opposition is against the introduction of postal voting, saying it represents a possible threat to democracy and goes against the constitutional rule guaranteeing that ballots are secret.
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01/03/2024
Czech universities will be stepping up their security measures using EU money, Education Minister Mikuláš Bek said after meeting with the Czech Rectors' Conference on Wednesday. These could include new rules on bringing luggage into university buildings and staff and students receiving security training.
Mr. Bek said that the measures would be adapted to each particular building. However, he said that he doubted that metal detector frames would be a widespread solution, although he could not rule it out in some cases. A new working group will discuss what precise steps are to be taken and will meet for the first time next Wednesday.
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01/03/2024
An 18-member team of Czech firefighters set off at noon on Wednesday for France, which is experiencing floods in the north of the country. They are bringing 15 pieces of firefighting equipment with them, including two large-capacity pumps, an amphibious firefighting vehicle and a rescue boat, to the French city of Saint-Omer, where they are expected to stay for two weeks. In doing so, Czechia is responding to France's request for help with the floods at the EU level.
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01/03/2024
Thursday is expected to be overcast and rainy with strong winds. Some patches of sun may appear amid the rain in the afternoon. Daytime temperatures should hover around 5 to 8 degrees Celsius.
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