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10/14/2023
Prague’s Museum of Decorative Arts will present a new collection of Cubist artefacts at the House of the Black Mother of God. The objects, which were acquired last year from the Foundation of Czech Cubism, will go on display on October 19.
The collection consists of 14 furniture sets as well as sets of ceramic, metal and glass items. It includes works by the most important representatives of Cubism - Vlastislav Hofman, Josef Gočár and Pavel Janák.
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10/14/2023
Temperature records for September 13 were set at around half of Czech weather stations keeping track of such data for at least 30 years, the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute has informed.
The highest temperature for that day was registered in Kuchařovice in South Moravia, where it reached 27.9 degrees Celsius. The unseasonably warm weather is expected to end on Sunday, with day temperatures not exceeding 15 degrees Celsius.
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10/13/2023
ANO party leader Andrej Babiš has apologised to former finance minister Miroslav Kalousek for a statement made in the Czech lower house five years ago when he accused him of stealing from the Defence Ministry and killing people with his purchase of military parachutes. Speaking at Friday's plenary session of parliament, Mr. Babiš said that he apologised to Mr. Kalousek for his statements made on 11 July, 2018. In a ruling made last month, the former prime minister had been ordered by the Supreme Court to apologise both in writing and orally during a parliamentary session to his one-time political rival, following a libel suit brought against Mr. Babiš by Mr. Kalousek.
Mr. Babiš had previously stated that he would challenge the verdict in the Constitutional Court, but later said that although he did not agree with the court's ruling, he would respect it. At today's parliamentary session, he said that he had "always respected court judgements and the principles of the democratic rule of law."
Mr Babiš's offending comments back in 2018 referred to Mr. Kalousek's tenure as deputy minister of defence and to several controversial contracts from that time, including the purchase of VTP-100 parachutes. In 1997, a soldier was fatally injured when his parachute failed to open.
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10/13/2023
Saturday should be overcast with rain throughout most of the day. However, despite the rain, it is predicted to be the last temperate day for a while, with daytime temperatures of up to 20 degrees Celsius. Over the following days, temperatures are expected to drop to around 10 degrees Celsius.
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10/13/2023
The lower house of the Czech parliament has approved the government's proposed austerity package by 108 votes for to 86 against. The opposition is threatening to take the matter to the Constitutional Court.
The measures have been fiercely contested by the opposition from the beginning, with a debate over the package still taking place on Wednesday afternoon during the bill's third reading.
According to the coalition government, the austerity package, which includes an overhaul of the pension system, will considerably help reduce the state budget deficit.
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10/13/2023
The billionaire businessman René Matera, founder of the Promet Group and one of the two owners of the Tatra Trucks company, passed away on Thursday at the age of 60 following a long battle with a serious illness, the Czech edition of Forbes reported on Friday. He had already stopped actively participating in the management of his 4,200-people-strong company in recent months due to his ailing health and had left the board of directors a year ago, handing the reins over to his daughter Denisa and son Radim.
René Matera's meteoric rise in the business world began in the early 1990s when he started selling blast-furnace slag. He gradually built his company up into a multibillion-dollar group which dealt in everything from iron to engineering and automobiles. He had an estimated net worth of CZK 11.6 billion at the time of his death.
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10/13/2023
The heads of 31 Czech cinemas have written an open letter of support for equal marriage for LGBT+ people to Prime Minister Petr Fiala. The head of the Bio Central cinema in Hradec Králové, Petr Vítek, who kickstarted the initiative, said that they want to show people that cinemas will not tolerate the division of the Czech population into two groups.
Czech theatres and private companies have also written similar open letters to the prime minister calling for marriage equality recently.
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10/13/2023
The sixth and final plane carrying Czechs returning from Israel landed in Prague on Friday morning at around 10.40 am. A total of 228 Czech citizens have now been flown home on six repatriation flights in the wake of Saturday's attacks by Hamas on Israel. Meanwhile, 74 Israelis were taken back to Israel on some of these same repatriation flights.
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10/13/2023
Czechia were beaten 3:0 in Albania on Thursday night in a qualifying game for football’s Euro 2024 competition. The Czechs played the whole of the second half with 10 men after Mojmír Chytil was sent off at the end of the first.
The result complicates their efforts to reach the European Championship. Albania lead the group on 13 points, ahead of Poland on nine. The Czechs are in third, on eight points, but have played one game fewer.
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10/13/2023
Fourth and fifth planes carrying Czechs wishing to return from Israel in the wake of the Hamas attacks on that country landed in Prague on Friday morning. A total of 66 Czech citizens were on board both flights. One more such flight to Israel is planned, making a total of six. To date about 180 citizens have returned to Czechia from Israel on repatriation flights.
The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs said late on Thursday that places on the planes had been found for all Czechs who had asked at the country’s embassy in Israel to be repatriated.
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