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10/11/2023
Ice hockey legend Jaromír Jágr, who is 51, has indicated that he may soon play again with Kladno, the Czech top flight club he owns. He said on social media that he needed to lose 10 kilos within two weeks to be able to take to the ice with Kladno.
Jágr’s last appearance in a competitive game was in April this year.
He is the second most productive player in NHL history and is widely considered the greatest Czech player ever.
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10/11/2023
Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s government will face a vote of no-confidence in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, October 17, the ctk news agency reported. The vote will take place at the instigation of the leading opposition ANO party over the recent revelation that Interior Minister Vit Rakušan from the Mayors and Independents Party had used an encrypted mobile phone in 2021. According to ANO this suggests the minister had something to hide and may have had links to organized crime.
The minister says he used the phone briefly and only because he feared his office might be bugged. Both the prime minister and president say they see no reason for his dismissal.
The Fiala cabinet should easily survive the no-confidence motion, since it has a comfortable 108-seat majority in the lower house.
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10/11/2023
On his return from Israel, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said negotiations were underway to secure the repatriation of dozens of Czechs from the country since the capacity of commercial flights out of Israel had decreased.
Mr. Lipavský, who brought back 34 Czech nationals on a government flight on Tuesday, urged Czechs who have failed to get on a flight out of Israel to contact the Czech Embassy in Tel Aviv.
He said it was compiling a list of people interested in repatriation and the ministry would find ways to get them out of the country.
The ministry says 181 Czech nationals in Israel are presently registered on its travel data base DROZD.
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10/10/2023
The head of Czech diplomacy Jan Lipavsky, who held talks with top officials in Israel on Tuesday, brought home 34 Czech citizens, stranded in the country, on a government plane. The Czech Embassy in Tel Aviv is in contact with other Czech nationals who have expressed interest in repatriation. The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs is also coordinating the evacuation with other EU member states.
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10/10/2023
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský on Tuesday flew to Israel for meetings with top officials after discussing support for the country with the Gulf States in Oman. Mr. Lipavsky met not only with his Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen, but also with the president of the Jewish state, Yitzhak Herzog, in Jerusalem, assuring them of Czechia’s full support in this crisis. “Israel is one of us, the attacks and kidnappings of its citizens by Palestinian radicals are an attack on all of us," Lipavský said during the visit.
The Czech foreign minister is the first foreign official to visit Israel in the wake of Saturday’s brutal attacks by Hamas.
According to Israeli journalist Amichai Stein who reported on the visit, the Czech diplomatic chief also met with the granddaughter of an 85-year-old woman who was abducted to the Gaza Strip by Hamas radicals.
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10/10/2023
Inflation in Czechia slowed to 6.9 percent in September, down from 8.5 percent in August, reaching the lowest level since December of 2021, according to data released by the Czech Statistics Office on Tuesday. Inflation has been dropping for eighth successive months, but still remains far above the Czech National Bank's 2% target. Compared to August, prices fell by 0.7 per cent in September.
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10/10/2023
Wednesday should be the warmest day of the week with clear to partly cloudy skies and day temperatures between 21 and 25 degrees Celsius.
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10/10/2023
Several hundred people gathered on Prague’s Wenceslas Square on Monday evening to demonstrate their support for Israel following the brutal attacks by Palestinian radicals. Speakers called for an end to financial support for Palestinians, defended Israel’s right to retaliation and called on Czech MPs to take steps to move the Czech Embassy in Israeli to Jerusalem. Israeli Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Anna Azari, addressed the gathering, voicing her gratitude for the staunch support of Czech citizens and its government. She said this was “ a dark time” for Israel, comparing it to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
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10/10/2023
The Czech authorities are planning to introduce a register of offenders of child sex crimes in order to prevent such individuals from working with children. According to Deputy Justice Minister Antonín Stanislav the justice, interior and education ministries have agreed on the conditions under which it would operate. In the case of serious offences, such as the rape of a child, offenders will be registered automatically. In the case of less serious offences, the respective court will decide on the registration. The register will feature people convicted of sexually motivated crimes committed against children i.e. rape, sexual coercion, crimes involving child pornography and prostitution.
Currently there is no central list of child abusers available to the authorities and there have been cases of pedophiles who were convicted of child abuse being employed in schools and children’s groups where they repeated the offense.
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10/10/2023
The Foreign Ministry is trying to ascertain the whereabouts of two Czech children from a mixed marriage who were abducted by their Palestinian father to Dubai last year and were believed to be in the Gaza Strip at the time of the Hamas attacks on Israel. The ministry is in contact with the Czech embassies in Abu Dhabi, Cairo, Tel Aviv and Ramallah to try to trace the children’s whereabouts, Mariana Wernerová from the ministry's communications department told the CTK news agency.
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