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10/20/2014
The country’s chief hygiene officer, Jiří Valenta, issued a directive on Monday introducing checks at international airports in the Czech Republic as a preventive measure to stop the spread of Ebola. Arriving in Prague, Karlovy Vary, Pardubice, Ostrava and Brno, passengers on international flights will fill in information ahead of time. At Prague´s Václav Havel Airport, any passengers who spent the last 42 days in Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone, the West African countries at the centre of the deadly Ebola outbreak, will undergo a medical checkup and have their temperature taken. At the other airports, arrival cards will be collected and evaluated by a doctor, with potentially risky passengers to be contacted later if necessary. Among information included will be passenger’s full names, their flight number, and means of contact. The Czech Republic had a total of four Ebola scares in recent weeks, but all of the patients tested negative. The directive at Czech airports takes effect on Tuesday morning.
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10/20/2014
Family, friends, fellow students, town officials and hundreds of others in Žďár nad Sazavou paid their last respects to 16-year-old Petr Vejvoda on Monday - the student killed in a knife attack at his high school last week. The ceremony was held at 12 PM but the chamber was full already an hour earlier. During the ceremony, the town’s mayor spoke while priest Tomáš Holý later read a letter from Cardinal Dominik Duka. Some classmates, unable to cope emotionally, were helped by medics.
Last Tuesday, Petr Vejvoda was fatally injured by a 26-year-old woman, with a past record of a similar assault and a history of mental illness. She had followed students into the school’s changing area; he died defending a fellow classmate. Last Friday, President Zeman and Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka both visited the school and lit candles at the site in his memory.
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10/20/2014
ANO, the Social Democrats and the Three-Party Coalition (The Greens, Christian Democrats, STAN) have agreed on key issues in negotiations on a possible coalition at Prague City Hall. Among ideas agreed, the Czech News Agency reported, is the construction of a new “D” metro line, the lowering the of price of yearly transit passes by 900 crowns, zero tolerance of gambling, and the stricter protection of non-developed areas in the city. ANO finished first in Prague in the recent local elections, followed by TOP 09, and the Three Party Coalition. Others with representatives elected are the Social Democrats, the Civic Democrats, the Communists, and the Czech Pirate Party.
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10/20/2014
Jiří Pařízek, until now the city councillor for transport, has been named interim chairman of the Prague branch of TOP 09 by the party’s regional executive committee. He will stay on until the end of November, when the vote on a new city council and the opposition will be held. He replaces Jiří Vávra, who left the party last week along with Prague Mayor Tomáš Hudeček. The two left the party over continued infighting which critics charged had hurt TOP 09’s chances in Prague: TOP 09 came second to ANO in the recent local elections.
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10/20/2014
Czech President Miloš Zeman rated the Czech government favorably in an interview on Sunday, telling commercial broadcaster TV Nova that Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka had been successful in keeping the coalition together, which he saw as crucial. He also said the current government had given people 'hope'. At the same time, the president stated he could envisage ANO leader and finance minister Andrej Babiš as prime minister as well. Commenting on the sharp words traded at times by Mr Babiš and Mr Sobotka, the president made clear occasional clashes in any coalition were common.
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10/20/2014
A blackout hit parts of the Czech capital a minute after midnight on Monday, affecting some 100,000 homes. Affected were Prague 4 and parts of Prague 2 and 10. The blackout, caused by a technical failure at a substation in Chodov, also left the Thomayer Hospital in Krč briefly without power. In all, the blackout affected about a quarter of the city, the Czech News Agency reported.
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10/19/2014
Czech men's tennis No.1 Tomáš Berdych won his tenth career title in Stockholm on Sunday, defeating Bulgarian opponent Grigor Dimitrov. Berdych won by a score of 5:7, 6:4, 6:4. The win keeps open Berdych's chances of clinching one of the remaining slots in the upcoming ATP World Finals.
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10/19/2014
Police pyrotechnics experts have gotten within 300 metres of the epicenter of a blast which destroyed a munitions depot, using a remote control drone and heavy equipment. For the second day they are investigating the site in the village of Vrbětice in South Moravia. Equipment they are using includes an armored vehicle and a special firefighters' 'tank'. Two people have been missing since the blast on Thursday and are feared dead.
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10/19/2014
Czech President Miloš Zeman maintains that candidates' personalities rather than political affiliation played a deciding role in the second round of the Senate elections. He expressed the view on Sunday through his spokesman Jiří Ovčáček. The head-of-state also suggested that a lower voter turnout in the Senate elections was par for course, saying that voters lost interest if their candidate failed to make it to the second round.
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10/19/2014
The head of TOP 09, Karel Schwarzenberg, has reflected on his party's failure to win a single seat in the Senate elections. He promised that the party would begin internal reforms at once, but also made clear the current leadership would remain until a leadership conference was held next year. There is speculation that Mr Schwarzenberg, who is 76, is planning on stepping down. Last week, members of TOP 09's Prague branch quit the party following a long period of infighting. The party lost in Prague, coming second in the communal elections.
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