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11/01/2017
It should be rainy in the Czech Republic on Thursday, with temperatures of up to 13 degrees Celsius expected. Daytime highs of around 11 degrees Celsius and mostly overcast skies are expected in the following days.
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11/01/2017
Czech-American contemporary music composer Ladislav Kubik has died in the United States at the age of 71, the ctk news agency reported.
Kubik studied composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and taught at the Prague Music Conservatory before moving to the United States. From 1991 he worked as Professor of Composition at Florida State University's College of Music in Tallahassee.
He won international recognition thanks to concerts, radio broadcasting and recording of his works in more than 20 countries of South and North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
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11/01/2017
Roughly 100 Czech students received the prestigious Duke of Edinburgh International Award from Prince Edward, the youngest son of British Queen Elizabeth II, on Tuesday.
The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award is available to all 14-24 year olds and is the world’s leading youth achievement award. It equips young people for life regardless of their background, culture, physical ability, skills and interests.
So far it has been granted to about 2,500 young Czechs.
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10/31/2017
President Miloš Zeman has tasked the leader of the ANO Party Andrej Babiš with forming a new government. At a joint press briefing following their meeting at Lany Chateau on Tuesday, the president said he supported Babis’ plan to form a minority government and would appeal to lower house deputies to give it a vote of confidence.
The president said he was strictly opposed to early elections and would give Babiš a second attempt at forming a cabinet if his minority government fails in a confidence vote in the lower house.
Babiš, who was rebuffed by the traditional parties during coalition negotiations, has said he will form a minority government made up of ANO ministers and unaffiliated experts and will ask the lower house for a vote of confidence in his cabinet before Christmas. There is concern that with support from the president he could govern the country for some time even if he failed to win a confidence vote.
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10/31/2017
The Czech power utility ČEZ is selling its coal-fired power plant in Varna to the Bulgarian company SIGDA OOD. ČEZ was forced to halt operations at the plant in 2015 after it failed to bring it up to EU environmental rules. ČEZ said it had been denied an exemption by the European Commission and the plant could not continue to work without an environmental upgrade. With a generating capacity of 1,260 megawatt, the plant serves as a back-up to the national power grid and the Bulgarian authorities have stressed the importance of keeping it in operation, pointing out it could become a much needed source of energy if Bulgaria were to be hit by a gas crisis.
ČEZ wants to leave the Bulgarian market due to drawn-out problems with the local authorities. It is to decide about the sale of all its Bulgarian assets, which include two renewable energy plants and an electricity trader, by the end of this year.
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10/31/2017
TOP 09 leader Miroslav Kalousek has called for the traditional parties to boycott Babiš’ plans for a minority government by blocking the establishment of a functioning lower house.
Kalousek said the only way to prevent the ANO leader from governing the country without a confidence vote was not to elect a chairman of the lower house. Without a functioning lower house the outgoing government of Bohuslav Sobotka cannot resign, and with Sobotka in office the president cannot name a new prime minister, Kalousek argued.
He said he would try to win support for the plan among all parties with the exception of the Communists, who have already said they would consider supporting a minority government led by Babiš.
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10/31/2017
The Constitutional Court has definitively ruled in favour of the Lego toy company in its dispute with the Czech Pirates Party over the use of Lego figures in their 2012 election campaign spot.
The Pirates were ordered to apologize to the company by the Prague Municipal Court which ruled that they had violated Lego’s ownership rights. The Constitutional Court upheld the ruling on Tuesday, saying that the clip could have created the false impression that Lego supported the party.
The Pirates Party which challenged two previous verdicts by lower instance courts on the grounds that they violated their freedom of expression said they would respect the ruling.
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10/31/2017
Wednesday should be partly cloudy to overcast around the country with day temperatures between 6 and 10 degrees Celsius.
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10/31/2017
The Mayors and Independents party (STAN) has appealed to parties with a similar goals and viewpoints to support the former chair of the Czech Academy of Sciences Jiří Drahoš in the race for president. The leader of the party’s deputies’group in the lower house Jan Farský said he believed Drahoš was one of the few candidates who could seriously challenge the incumbent president, Miloš Zeman for the post.
There are now 12 candidates in the race. In order to join the race each candidate must collect a certain number of signatures in support of his or her candidacy – either from 50,000 citizens, ten senators or twenty deputies.
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10/31/2017
A fourth person is reported dead as a result of the severe storm that hit the Czech Republic on Sunday. The latest victim was an eighty-year-old man who had gone mushroom hunting in the forest. Three other people were killed in different parts of the country by falling trees.
Meanwhile, thousands of people were still without power on Tuesday as maintenance crews struggled to fix damaged power lines. Persistent rain in some areas have made it difficult to use heavy technology.
The Karlovy Vary region has placed a number of forests and wooded areas off limits to the public for fear of more accidents. Clean-up work continues around the country and the damages are expected to reach billions of crowns.
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