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04/17/2018
The Toronto Maple Leafs earned their first win in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs on Monday night, defeating the Boston Bruins 4-2 to cut Boston’s series lead by one (2-1). Hockey forward Tomáš Plekanec, traded from Montreal earlier in 2018, got an assist.
The Bruins’ David Krejčí and David Pastrňák did not get points for the first time in the series.
In other action, San Jose declassed Anaheim by a score of 8-1. The fifth goal in the blowout was scored by Tomáš Hertl.
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04/17/2018
Representatives of the Social Democratic Party and ANO were tight-lipped after a meeting on Monday discussing the possibility of renewing talks on forming a minority government. Both sides agreed not to comment until the Social Democrats had had a chance to inform their top leadership of ANO's offer.
The Social Democrats were invited to the meeting after talks between the two parties initially collapsed more than 10 days ago. Social Democrat leader Jan Hamáček declined to describe even the atmosphere of the meeting on Monday saying he did not want to send any signal before he had discussed ANO's offer with his party leadership.
Deputy party leader Jiří Zimola had made clear ahead of time that he and his colleagues were attending to learn if ANO was offering anything new.
Initially, talks between ANO and the Social Democrats collapsed over who would head key government portfolios including the Interior Ministry. The Social Democrats had reportedly sought the post as a counterbalance of sorts to the fact that the prime minister Andrej Babiš is facing criminal charges of EU subsidy fraud.
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04/16/2018
The funeral for Czech-born director Miloš Forman was held in a private ceremony by his family in Warren, Connecticut on Sunday, his widow Martina wrote on Monday on facebook.
In her post, she thanked friends for their many well-wishes and said the ceremony had been according to her husband's wishes. The two-time Oscar winner died last Friday at the age of 86.
Forman is renowned for his early films such as Loves of a Blonde as well as later masterpieces such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus.
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04/16/2018
EP Industries and internet shopping site Mall.cz, connected with Czech businessman Daniel Křetinský, will be the general partner of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) for 2018. The news was reported by IHNED.cz on Monday. According to reports, the firms will provide 15 million crowns each in funding annually. Neither firm has commented.
Earlier this year, energy giant ČEZ announced it was withdrawing as the festival’s main sponsor. The annual budget for the festival is around 135 million crowns.
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04/16/2018
Mostly cloudy conditions are expected on Tuesday. Daytime temperatures should reach highs of around 18 degrees Celsius.
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04/16/2018
The Prague Institute of Planning and Development has submitted the strategic urban or municipal plan for the Czech capital, to come effect in 2023, Prague Mayor Adriana Krnáčová confirmed on Monday.
The plan in use now was adopted in 1999.
The new strategic plan will introduce the regulation of building height limits; unlike the current plan, the new one will take into account not only the function or use of different sites but also their character and their location within specific city districts, architect Roman Koucký, who headed the team which put together the document, said.
The mayor highlighted the Metropolitan Plan’s importance for the city’s development, saying it expressed a vision for the city for decades to come.
It will be possible to suggest additions or tweaks to the plan for a period of 30 days beginning on June 27.
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04/16/2018
Leading members of the right-wing opposition have criticised prime minister in resignation Andrej Babiš, alleging he was flip-flopping or backpedalling on the strike against Syria by US, British and French forces.
On Saturday, the prime minister said the strike had been inevitable but a day later, after a meeting with the president, he suggested that the strike had resolved nothing.
During a work visit to the region of Karlovy Vary on Monday, he then called the threat of additional strikes a deterrent against the use of chemical weapons.
The apparent changes in his stance drew fire from long-time political rival Miroslav Kalousek of TOP 09, who suggested he could respect someone with a differing but firm position but not a politician who - in his view - changed his mind one day to the next.
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04/16/2018
The Central Bohemia region is at the centre of a row over a massive loan taken out at a high interest rate.
A 6.0 percent interest rate was attached to the 1.8 billion crown loan taken out in 2008. Under the terms of the loan, the interest rate cannot be changed over its 20 year term.
The loan was taken out to pay for three new hospitals and was signed at the time by the then regional governor Petr Bendl of the Civic Democrats. The current regional governor, Jaroslava Jermanová, of ANO, was deputy of the financial committee that cleared the loan.
The loan, judged by experts to be far above the normal commercial rate, has been justified as hedging against interest rate increases. Bendl said the move was advantageous.
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04/16/2018
American rock band Imagine Dragons will perform at Prague’s O2 Arena on Monday as part of their Evolve world tour. The Grammy winners, who have several platinum records, are coming back to Prague after two years; last year they performed at the Colours of Ostrava festival in the east of the country.
The band’s single Believer was number 1 on the Alternative radio list for 12 weeks and built on the success of the earlier hit Thunder.
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04/16/2018
The restoration of Prague’s Rašínovo nábřeží embankment along the Vltava River gets underway on Monday. The project will mainly concern the renovation of 12 rooms set into the stone embankment walls, which will be turned into cafes, galleries and public toilets.
The renovation work will also include placing new benches and waste containers along the riverside walk and new infrastructure that will enable the facilities to operate.
Prague City Hall plans to renovate all of the city’s embankments by the year 2020. The whole project is expected to cost around 225 million crowns. The renovation works at the Rašínovo nábřeží embankment should end by November at the latest.
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