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09/10/2023
Czech President Petr Pavel extended his condolences to the Moroccan King Muhammad VI in the wake of the deadly earthquake in the North African country that killed over 2,000 people and left over 2,000 others injured. The Czech head of state also praised the dedication and bravery of the local rescuers.
A number of other Czech political leaders, including Prime Minister Petr Fiala, Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský and the head of the opposition ANO movement Andrej Babiš have expressed their sympathy with the families of the victims on the social network X. Mr. Fiala wrote that Czechia was ready to send necessary aid to Morocco.
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09/10/2023
Temperature records for September 9 fell at nine monitoring stations around Czechia on Saturday. The highest temperature for that day was registered in Prague’s district of Komořany, where it reached 30.4 degrees Celsius.
Temperatures of around 30 degrees are expected to last until Tuesday. The second part of the work week is expected to be overcast and cooler, but the following weekend will see clear skies again with temperatures reaching 27 degrees Celsius.
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09/10/2023
The Czech-German Fund for the Future is the most important actor in connecting Czech and German civil society, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Saturday on the occasion of hosting the annual Citizen’s Festival at his residence in Berlin.
The Czech-German Fund, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, was a special guest at this year’s Bürgerfest, celebrating civil society and voluntary work, while Czechia, along with the German state of Thuringia, has been chosen as one of the partner countries.
According to the German head of state, the Czech-German Declaration of 1997 was the key to friendship and good neighbourliness between the two nations, and the Czech-German Future Fund is the child of the Declaration.
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09/10/2023
Polish director Agnieszka Holland won a special jury award at the Venice Film Festival for her latest feature film Green Border, made in coproduction with Czechia. The drama dealing with the plight of refugees caught on the border between Belarus and Poland, also received several non-statutory awards.
Czech film Photophobia by Ivan Ostrochovský and Pavol Pekarčík shot last year in war-torn Ukraine, presented in the festival’s independent sidebar Giornate degli Autori, was awarded the Europa Cinemas Label. Both films were also supported by the Czech Film Fund.
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09/09/2023
More than 200 people protested on Saturday afternoon in Prague against the planned dismantling of the historic Vyšehrad railway bridge spanning the Vltava River.
People formed a chain stretched across the entire length of the bridge's southern footbridge in order to point out the cultural and symbolic value.
The event was organised by the organisation Nebourat or Do Not Demolish, which previously initiated a petition against dismantling the bridge signed by some 17,500 people.
Earlier this year, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre asked the Czech authorities not to go ahead with the plans to demolish and replace the bridge.
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09/09/2023
Czech firefighters are ready to immediately send a special team to earthquake-hit Morocco to search through the rubble, they wrote on the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter on Saturday, adding that they were waiting for an official request.
The Czech Fire and Rescue Service is sending two liaison officers to Morocco this evening to agree on the possible deployment of the urban search and rescue specialists in the affected area, following an agreement with Interior Minister Vít Rakušan and Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský.
The special team has been helping, for example, in Turkey and Syria following the devastating earthquakes this winter.
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09/09/2023
Sunday will be mostly sunny with day temperatures ranging between 26 and 30 degrees Celsius
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09/09/2023
One Life, a new biographical film about Sir Nicholas Winton directed by James Hawes and starring Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday.
On the eve of World War II Winton saved the lives of 669 mainly Jewish Czechoslovak from the Holocaust by organising train transports out of Prague and securing places for them to stay in the United Kingdom.
Sir Nicholas, who was in his late 20s when he carried out his heroic deeds, is played in his younger years by another British actor, Johnny Flynn while Helena Bonham-Carter had joined the cast as Winton’s mother.
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09/09/2023
The Czech Foreign Ministry has no information with regard to the possibility that Czechs may have been among the victims or injured in Friday’s 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Morocco. According to the latest figures released 1,000 people were killed in the quake and over 300 were injured.
According to the ministry’s travel registration system Drozd, some 81 Czechs are registered in the country and no one had reported anyone missing.
The powerful earthquake, which struck in the High Atlas Mountains at around 11 p.m. local time on Friday, some 70 kilometres south-west of Marrakesh at a depth of 18.5 kilometres, is said to be the strongest in a century in the country.
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09/09/2023
Some 240 people took a special train ride from Prague to Berlin via Dresden on Saturday to attend the annual Bürgerfest, celebrating civil society and voluntary work, which takes place at the official residence of the German President in Berlin.
The train ride is organised by the United Islands of Prague festival and the Czech-German Fund for the Future, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The carriages of the train, which departed from Prague capital at around 8 a.m., serve as artistic stages featuring literary, musical and theatrical performances.
Czechia, along with the German state of Thuringia, has been chosen as one of the partner countries at this year’s Citizen’s Festival. Among the organisations showcasing the country is the Czech Embassy in Berlin, the Budějovický Budvar brewery as well as the German section of Radio Prague International.
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