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10/20/2023
This year's International Documentary Film Festival Ji.hlava will open with the world premiere of the documentary film “This is Havel Speaking, Can You Hear Me?”. The film captures the last three years of the late Czech president Václav Havel’s life. The film's director, Petr Jančárek, said over 200 hours of unique footage were shot during the filming process. The festival will start in Jihlava on October 24 and will also screen Agnieszka Holland's much-discussed film The Green Border. Visitors to the festival will be able to choose from 357 films in both competition and non-competition sections.
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10/20/2023
The Czech health authorities have reported local outbreaks of whooping cough in unvaccinated children in some regions of the country. The highly contagious infection can be accompanied by serious complications in the form of pneumonia with a risk of heart failure. This year doctors have diagnosed 127 cases of whooping cough, double the number of cases registered last year, the State Health Institute warned on Friday. Local outbreaks have been recorded in Hradec Králové, Liberec and other regions.
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10/20/2023
Hunters have started hunting wild boar in Klanovice forest on the outskirts of Prague (Prague 21) and the municipality has warned people who use the locality, to avoid it in the early morning and after dark. This pertains particularly to cyclists, joggers and dogs owners who are often there in the early morning and late evening. The warning has appeared on social networks and the local paper but many people are reportedly unaware of it. According to Prague 21, the hunting will continue in the vicinity until the end of November. Wild boars have overbred in the area and are a risk to people.
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10/20/2023
The Fiala government has moved to address the shortage of qualified workers in various sectors of the Czech economy. It approved a proposal by the Ministry of Industry and Trade to increase quotas for foreign workers from third countries by 20,000 as of 2024. This should help IT companies, hospitals and construction firms, which are short of skilled workers either due to a lack of specialists in the field or because Czechs are less interested in the given field of work. The move is expected to boost economic growth and increase state budget revenues.
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10/20/2023
Since the introduction of spot checks on the country’s eastern border with Slovakia on October 4, police officers checked over 110 000 people, turned away 745 illegal migrants and detained 32 people smugglers, Police President Martin Vondrášek told reporters after a meeting of the State Security Council on Thursday.
Prime Minister Petr Fiala said that despite the growing number of illegal migrants detained on Czech territory, their overall numbers are still lower that in preceding years. He emphasized the need to better safeguard Schengen’s outer borders so that member states would not have to address the problem individually and periodically renew border controls on internal borders.
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10/20/2023
The president of the Czech Ice Hockey Association, Alois Hadamczik, has admitted that the association should have handled ticket sales to next year’s World Hockey Championship matches better. Tickets to the Czech and Slovak matches hosted next year by Prague and Ostrava, were sold out in 90 minutes. While this was deemed a great success for the organizers, Mr.Hadamczik, admitted it was a mistake to give people the opportunity to buy up to eight day-passes in one purchase. This reduced the number of people who could get tickets and also significantly increased the risk of horse-trading. “We put too many tickets in one package, it should have been two, not eight. We are considering doing this differently in the future” Hadamczik told reporters in Prague.
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10/19/2023
Eight personalities and one organization received the 2023 Gratias Agit award for promoting the good name of the Czech Republic abroad at Černín Palace in Prague on Thursday. The awards, presented by Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský went to personalities who have made their mark in the fields of science, literature, art and culture and non-governmental aid organizations.
Among this year’s laureates are writer and Holocaust survivor Eva Erbenová, London-based pediatric cardiologist Jan Marek from Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, Sabine Gruša, founder of the association “German Friends and Supporters of the Olga Havel Foundation” and Jana Sommerlad, a translator and editor active in The Friends of Czech Heritage, a British volunteer organisation that provides funds and volunteers to repair historic sites in the Czech Republic.
The Gratias Agit awards have been running since 1997. Past laureates include such big names as playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, film director Miloš Forman and architect Eva Jiřičná.
The 2023 Gratias Agit awards have a new design in the form of a glass prism symbolizing a seal. The authors of the artwork are designers Klára Janypková and Tomáš Kučera.
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10/19/2023
There is no imminent danger to Czech citizens in connection with the worsening global security situation following the Hamas attacks on Israel, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said after Thursday’s meeting of the National Security Council. “Our intelligence services have no information indicating that the risk of terrorist attacks against targets in the Czech Republic has increased,” the prime minister said. He added however, that the government was taking the matter seriously and had ordered strict security measures to minimize possible risks and protect institutions and individuals who might be potential targets.
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10/19/2023
Twenty-eight people suffered light injuries in a tram collision in Plzen, West Bohemia, on Thursday afternoon, the ctk news agency reported. According to eyewitnesses the trams collided because one of the tram drivers unexpectedly hit the brakes. The cause of the accident is being investigated. Preliminary damage estimates are at around one million crowns.
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10/19/2023
Friday should be partly cloudy to overcast with day temperatures between 17 and 21 degrees Celsius.
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