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12/08/2014
A British national who went missing during a stag weekend in the Czech capital has been found dead, a family member confirmed for the BBC. His death has also been confirmed by Great Britain's Foreign Office but not yet by Czech officials. Karl Law, 34, disappeared on November 15 during a visit to Prague with 12 others; his body was recovered from the Vltava River on Sunday. Mr Law leaves behind a fiancé and three-year-old son.
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12/08/2014
The annual report for drug abuse in the Czech Republic for 2013, presented by national anti-drugs coordinator Jindřich Vobořil, has shown that the number of long-term pervetin (methamphetamine) users in the country has increased significantly over the last 10 years. In 2003 there were around 18,800 addicts while last year the number was 34,200. The anti-drugs coordinator stressed that the abuse of legal substances, namely alcohol, remains a major problem, estimating the country had at least 500,000 alcoholics. The head of the National Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Addiction, Viktor Mravčík, revealed that annually between 30 and 40 people overdose on opiates, pervetin or other illicit drugs, while around 300 people die from alcohol poisoning.
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12/08/2014
Czech police are searching for a patient who escaped from a psychiatric hospital in Kroměřiž on Sunday. The 20-year-old, a Slovak national, is considered dangerous. He was ordered into treatment at the hospital by a court after being found guilty of a violent criminal offence. Members of the public have been warned not to try and apprehend the escapee themselves.
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12/08/2014
Unemployment in the Czech Republic remained at 7.1 percent in November, the same as the previous month, while the number of jobless fell by 2,130 to 517,508 and the number of vacancies rose by 1,180 against October to 59,397, the Employment Office announced on Monday. Year-on-year, unemployment was 0.6 percentage point lower in November. The number of those without jobs dropped by 47,805while the number of vacancies increased by 21,896. The Employment Office´s spokeswoman Kateřina Beránková said that industrial firms had proven to be in good condition with an interest in hiring new personnel. The situation on the labour market, she added, had been positively influenced not only by the economic recovery but also by the wrapping up of seasonal work. Demand is traditionally high for technical professions across all sectors - for example for milling machine operators, mechanics and electricians.
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12/08/2014
The Czech government has agreed to boost the number of soldiers guarding a volatile munitions site in Vrbětice in the area of Zlín by an additional 350 personnel, bringing the full number to 450. The move comes after explosions at the munitions depot continued to plague the site last week, leading to some 2,000 local residents being evacuated from their homes at the weekend. In October, an initial explosion at the former military storage facility, which is run by a private firm, destroyed part of the compound. Two employees died in the blast and the site has seen hundreds uncontrolled explosions since. Pyrotechnics experts who conducted a search of the site on Sunday, said there was no further danger after an unexploded artillery grenade was secured; but locals, angered by the ongoing situation, said such assurances had been given before.
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12/08/2014
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls will arrive in Prague on Monday for a two-day visit to the Czech Republic. Mr Valls is scheduled to meet with President Miloš Zeman and with his Czech counterpart, Bohuslav Sobotka. The French Prime Minister is also set to speak at the Czech-French economic forum at the Czernin Palace on Tuesday and to commemorate a 1988 meeting of the former French president Francois Mitterand with Czechoslovak dissidents at the French Embassy in Prague.
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12/08/2014
The Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Army, General Petr Pavel, visited Czech soldiers at the Bagram military base in eastern Afghanistan at the weekend. General Pavel commemorated four Czech soldiers who died in July in a suicide bombing near the base. The Chief of the General Staff traditionally pays a morale boosting visit to Czech soldiers serving abroad ahead of the Christmas holidays handing out Christmas goodies and bringing the soldiers presents from their families. There are currently around 300 Czech soldiers serving in Afghanistan as part of NATO’s ISAF mission.
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12/07/2014
The Czech ski jumper Roman Koudelka has claimed his second World Cup victory at an event in Norway's Lillehammer. Koudelka won in the first round with a jump of 140 metres for 153.9 points metres, ahead of Slovenia's Peter Prevc. The second leg had to be cancelled due to bad weather conditions. The Czech ski jumper is currently leading the overall World Cup standings.
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12/07/2014
This November was the warmest in the past 50 years, according to the website meteo.cz. The average temperature exceeded 6 degrees Celsius, which is nearly 4 degrees higher than the mean for the period 1963 to 2014. Temperature records were repeatedly broken around the Czech Republic last month, with over 18 degrees Celsius recorded at some weather stations. According to meteorologists, the whole autumn was unusually warm.
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12/07/2014
A drowned man was found in the river Vltava in Prague's district of Smíchov on Sunday afternoon. Police say the body could have been in the water for three to five weeks. Investigation of the man's identity and the cause of his death is now underway. Police spokeswoman Andrea Zoulová did not rule out the possibility that it could be the British citizen Karl Leonard Law, who went missing in Prague last month.
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