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10/27/2023
Saturday should be partly cloudy to overcast with rain around the country and day temperatures between 11 and 15 degrees Celsius.
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10/27/2023
The Chamber of Deputies has approved a draft bill that will increase the parental allowance by 50,000 crowns to 350,000 crowns from January of 2024. The increase will apply only to children born as of the beginning of next year. This latter decision has come under fire from some MPs and from parents, who say it is unfair to the parents of babies born just days or weeks ahead of the set date. The opposition ANO party failed to push through a more dramatic increase in the parental allowance to 400,000 crowns. The proposal will now go to the Senate for debate. Under Czech law parents can determine how much they will receive each month from the set allowance.
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10/27/2023
President Petr Pavel will hold a reception for foreign diplomats at Prague Castle on Friday. A meeting with foreign diplomats is traditionally held on the eve of Czechoslovak Independence Day, marking the founding of Czechoslovakia on October 28, 1918. The president's wife Eva will also be present. The president organized one such meeting with the diplomatic corps shortly after his inauguration earlier this year.
Foreign diplomats are traditionally also invited to the award giving ceremony at Prague Castle on Czechoslovak Independence Day.
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10/27/2023
Czech households paid significantly more for gas and electricity in the first half of this year than citizens in the other Visegrad Group (V4) member countries, i.e. Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, according to data published by Eurostat. Electricity for Czech households has risen by more than a quarter year-on-year and gas by more than half. In April, Eurostat published data on gas and electricity prices, according to which gas prices for households in the Czech Republic in the second half of last year saw the steepest increase in all of the EU member states.
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10/27/2023
The Čedok travel agency is evacuating around 500 Czech tourists from the Egyptian resort of Taba on the Red Sea, where a rocket hit a medical facility during the night, Czech Foreign Ministry spokesman Daniel Drake told the ctk news agency. According to Čedok all its clients there are safe and are receiving information about transfers to the airport. They are being evacuated on charter flights as a precautionary measure. Jan Papež, vice-chairman of the Association of Travel Agencies of the Czech Republic, said that he has no information at the moment that any other domestic travel agency has clients in the area.
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10/27/2023
President Petr Pavel will be handing out state awards to over 60 people on Czechoslovak Independence Day, the head of the president's office, Jana Vohralíková, told journalists on Friday. October 28 is a public holiday in the Czech Republic marking the founding of Czechoslovakia in 1918. On this day, the president hands out high state distinctions to people for "outstanding services" to the Czech Republic. The president's office has not divulged the names of the recipients before the ceremony, but former foreign minister and one-time presidential candidate Karel Schwarzenberg told the Czech daily Právo that he will be receiving the highest award, the Order of the White Lion.
Due to the ceremony, the Old Royal Palace, the Story of Prague Castle exhibition and the Royal Garden, including the Jiří Štourač exhibition, will be closed all day on Saturday, while the Prague Castle grounds will be closed to the public from 3.00 pm, with last entry at 2.30 pm.
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10/27/2023
A Czech climber has died in Nepal while climbing in the Himalayas, apparently by slipping and falling, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Daniel Drake told the Czech News Agency on Friday. CNN Prima News reported that the local police in Nepal had informed the Czech consulate in Kathmandu about the death of a Czech citizen, information which the consulate then forwarded to the embassy in Delhi. The Foreign Ministry was informed of the man's death on Thursday. The incident is currently being investigated further.
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10/26/2023
The world-renowned Czech conductor Zdeněk Mácal died on Wednesday at the age of 87, the Czech News Agency reports. During his long career, he conducted more than 170 major orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Royal Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and the Chicago and Boston Symphony Orchestras. Between 2003 and 2007, he was also chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic in his native country.
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10/26/2023
Morocco stands behind the Palestinian Authority headed by Mahmoud Abbas and appeals for a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said after Thursday's meeting with his Czech counterpart, Jan Lipavský. Mr. Bourita said that Morocco will always be of the opinion that the armed conflict must end and that any solution is preferable to a military one, adding that the violence taking place "is completely unacceptable from the point of view of the international community and human reason". He also spoke about the necessity of humanitarian aid reaching civilians.
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said that he reiterated Czechia's position during the meeting that Hamas is a terrorist organization and that Israel has Czechia's unequivocal support, but added that "we all must strive" to prevent the armed conflict from spreading further in the region. He said that humanitarian aid is also important to Czechia, but that it shouldn't be in a form that would prevent the defeat of Hamas, which he described as a "terrorist movement which has committed heinous crimes against innocent Israeli citizens".
However, the two foreign ministers found common ground in their shared understanding of the need to increase pressure on Russia to end its war against Ukraine, Mr. Lipavský said.
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10/26/2023
Friday is expected to be wet and overcast, with daytime temperatures of 10 to 11 degrees Celsius.
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