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07/22/2015
Two people were killed and 13 injured when a high-speed Pendelino train collided with a truck at a level crossing at Studénka in the Moravia-Silesia Region on Wednesday morning, the news website iDnes.cz reported. Three of the injured are reported to be in critical condition. The train, travelling from Bohumín to Františkovy Lázně, was going at over 100 kilometres an hour when the accident occurred; the truck’s engine was found 200 metres from the scene of the crash and it took the train a full two kilometres to come to a stop.According to camera footage the truck entered the crossing despite the flashing red light and got trapped by the closing gates. The driver, a fifty-year-old Polish national, escaped from the vehicle in time and is being questioned by police. He may be charged with endangering public safety.
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07/22/2015
Five Czech Gripen fighter jets which left for Iceland on Wednesday morning were forced to return to home base shortly after due to a technical defect on one of the planes, the head of the Časlav airbase reported. The flight has been postponed by 24 hours. The Czech Republic is due to patrol the airspace over Iceland for a month in August, in place of Canadian airmen who are involved in the fight against the Islamic State. Iceland does not have its own military and its airspace is protected within the NATO Integrated Air and Missile Defence plan.
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07/22/2015
The Taiwanese technology firm Foxconn is set to invest around CZK 2.5 billion in the Czech Republic in the next three years, the company’s CEO Terry Gou and Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said after a meeting in Prague. The investments will be in Foxconn’s factories in the Czech Republic and in the building of a research centre and data centres, though the firm is yet to discuss the concrete form of the projects with representatives of the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade. Industry Minister Jan Mládek said the investment would help the country “board the moving train and keep step with German industry in particular.”
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07/22/2015
Police in Prague have arrested a Belarusian man wanted in connection with the stabbing to death of a Latvian man in the city last week. Alyaksandr Astapkuk, who had been seen in surveillance camera footage that was made public, was detained by a patrol on Dukelskych hrdinů on Tuesday night, the news site Tíseň.tv reported. The stabbing took place near Florenc bus station on Thursday afternoon. Media reports suggested the two men had got into an altercation over a woman.
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07/21/2015
Public service workers in the Czech Republic will get a pay rise in November, the minister of finance, Andrej Babiš, said after a meeting with trade union leaders on Tuesday. The size of the salary increase will be discussed in mid-September. Mr. Babiš said he was in favour of a 3 percent rise already agreed but union head Josef Středula said he would be pushing for a higher increase. Last November teachers, fire fighters, police officers and other public service employees got a 3.5 percent pay rise.
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07/21/2015
The current drought in the Czech Republic is the worst in 12 years, according to the Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute. Streams and underground waters have been affected and the situation is likely to get even worse in view of the fact that heavy rains are not forecast for the near future, meteorologist Jan Daňhelka said on Tuesday. All parts of the country have been similarly affected by the drought, though the situation is worst in South Moravia and Polabí in Central Bohemia, he said.
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07/21/2015
MP Věra Kovářová says she is drafting legislation that would force the president’s chancellor Vratislav Mynář to reveal his assets. The TOP 09 politician said the dubious origin of Mr. Mynář’s property was the reason he had failed to acquire the security clearance required to fully carry out his work and that this represented a risk to the state. Mr. Mynář previously provided a property declaration for 2013 that was criticised for containing little information.
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07/21/2015
The first part of a new “D” line of the Prague Metro system should go into operation in 2022, according to a decision taken by the city council on Tuesday. The line – which will feature driverless trains – will at first run from Pankrác to the as yet unbuilt Depo Písnice station in the south of the city before being extended later. Work is set to begin on the multi-billion crown project in three years’ time.
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07/21/2015
The Czech Republic’s tennis players will face India in the Davis Cup World Group play-offs in mid-September in a tie to decide which country remains in the elite group. The draw for play-offs was made in London on Tuesday. The Czech Republic won the Davis Cup twice in the last three years but were knocked out in the first round this season by France.
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07/21/2015
Nobody has been in contact with the Czech state in connection with the five Czech citizens who went missing in Lebanon on Saturday, the country’s foreign minister, Lubomír Zaorálek, said after a meeting of the government’s Crisis Committee on Tuesday. Mr. Zaorálek said the government had no information with regards to the whereabouts of the five, adding that they could now be in another country. Their personal belongings were found in a taxi near the border with Syria and it has been reported that the driver of the taxi was a man whose brother is in detention in the Czech Republic on suspicion of links to terrorism. Lebanon’s police and army have launched a search for the missing Czechs, who local press said were two journalists, a lawyer, an interpreter and a senior security official.
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