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08/27/2018
Record low temperatures for August 27 were registered in many parts of the Czech Republic on Monday morning. Of 146 weather stations keeping records for 30 years or more, 41 saw new lows. The coldest place was Volary in the Šumava Mountains in South Bohemia, where minus 8.5 degrees Celsius was measured.
Prague’s Clementinum was the only weather station in the country where the temperature did not fall below 10 degrees Celsius.
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08/27/2018
The Czech high jumper Jaroslav Bába has announced his retirement, a week before his 34th birthday. Bába’s greatest success came with a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, when he was just 19.
The athlete told Czech Television that he had reached the top at a very young age and that that fact was now telling on his body. Bába, who also came third at the 2004 World Athletics Championships, holds the Czech indoor and outdoor high jump records.
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08/27/2018
It should be quite sunny in the Czech Republic on Tuesday, with temperatures of up to 23 degrees Celsius. Daytime highs should hover around the mid-20s Celsius for the remainder of the week.
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08/27/2018
The current director of Prague’s National Theatre, Jan Burian, is to get a contract extension that will keep him in the post until 2025. The minister of culture, Antonín Staněk, announced that Mr. Burian would remain in the post for a second term at the launch of the National Theatre’s new season on Monday.
Mr. Staněk said that the institution had made positive progress in the last five years, both in artistic terms and in carrying out strategic projects. Mr. Burian’s current contract runs out in 12 months’ time.
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08/27/2018
The Czech prime minister, Andrej Babiš, says he does not want to accept “even one migrant”. Speaking at an annual meeting of the country’s top diplomats in Prague on Monday, he proposed a “Marshall Plan” for Africa that would encourage would-be migrants to remain in their country of origin.
Mr. Babiš called for a common European Union approach to the issue of migration but again rejected a policy of sharing out refugees among member states. He said the EU should focus more on ensuring the continent’s security.
The prime minister also said that anybody speaking about a possible Czech departure from the EU was threatening the country’s future and pointed to the fact that 83 percent of the Czech Republic’s exports were to other EU states.
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08/27/2018
A damaged pipeline flooded the basement of the new National Museum building on Wenceslas Square over the weekend. It remains unclear whether the fault lies in an external or internal pipe, but the damage is not extensive, a spokesperson said.
The new National Museum building was initially built to house the Prague Stock Exchange and was opened in February 1938. After World War II, it housed the National Assembly and later the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia.
In 1995, it served as headquarters for Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. It has been part of the National Museum since 2006 and is a cultural monument.
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08/27/2018
The annual IOM Summer School of Migration Studies now underway is focusing on environmental migration, human trafficking, and the current situation in the Middle East and Africa from the perspective of the 'migration crisis' in Europe.
Some 100 students and other youths from more than 50 countries are attending the week-long programme in Prague, which began on Saturday at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Charles University, under the auspices of the Minister of Interior Jan Hamáček.
The project is co-funded by the U.S. Embassy in Prague within the Small Grants Program. The United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) Prague is a project partner.
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08/26/2018
Approximately 100 passengers arriving at Václav Havel Airport Prague on Sunday morning were evacuated from the plane by slides due to a suspected fire. No one was injured, airport spokesperson Marika Janoušková said.
Tunisia is a popular foreign destination among Czech tourists. The incoming Tunisair flight had departed from Monastir, a coastal city in the Sahel area.
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08/26/2018
A number of Czech politicians have paid tribute to US Senator John McCain, a Vietnam veteran and former presidential candidate, who died on Saturday from brain cancer at the age of 81.
In various statements, political leaders described the outspoken Republican as role model, freedom fighter and defender of democracy. Civic Democrat (ODS) chairman Petr Fiala described him as a brave man and friend of the Czech Republic while Top 09 party chairman Miroslav Kalousek described him as a principled leader admired around the world.
McCain will be missed not only by Americans, said the head of the foreign policy section of the presidential chancellery, Rudolf Jindrák.
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08/26/2018
The state budget for 2019 should have a deficit of 40 billion crowns, Minister of Finance Alena Schillerová said in an interview with Czech Television, noting a revised reading of macroeconomic data. Last month, the deficit was projected at up to 50 billion crowns.
The 2019 budget approved by the government envisages increased funding for teachers’ salaries and pensions as well as reduced social welfare benefits. Most ministries can expect more state money, except for the Ministry of Health, which is projected to take in more from health insurers.
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