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09/08/2023
The Czech government is considering sending a new ambassador to Moscow, despite Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine, Novinky.cz reported. The current official ambassador, Vítězslav Pivoňka, has been in Prague for some time. He could be replaced by analyst Daniel Koštoval, the news site said.
In an interview this week President Petr Pavel said he was in favour of sending a new ambassador to Moscow, as states such as Germany and the UK have done in recent times. Such appointees must present their credentials to Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin.
However there are splits in the Czech government over the matter, with the Civic Democrats for and TOP 09 and the Christian Democrats against, said Novinky.cz.
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09/08/2023
Czechia should receive 300,000 packages of penicillin by the second half of November and that should mean there is an adequate supply, the Ministry of Health said on Friday. Some Czechs have recently been having trouble acquiring penicillin but ministry officials and distributors say that this has in part been caused by panic among the public. They recommend that people reserve the drug at their pharmacy in advance.
The minister of health, Vlastimil Válek, said on Friday that the problem was not a lack of penicillin but rather the fact that not all pharmacies possess stocks at present.
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09/08/2023
Carmaker Škoda Auto will suspend production at its plant in Kvasiny in Northeast Bohemia for at least a week from Monday after production at an engine parts supplier in Slovenia was hit by flooding, a spokesperson for Škoda Auto said on Friday.
The firm will probably also partially limit production in Mladá Boleslav due to the situation, which has hit the whole Volkswagen group. A union representative said the restrictions pertained to all models except the all-electric Enyaq.
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09/08/2023
The Czech national soccer team drew 1:1 with Albania in a European Championship qualifier in Prague on Thursday evening. The hosts were favourites in the game and went ahead on 56 minutes through Václav Černý, only to concede an equaliser nine minutes later.
Despite the setback, after four games the Czechs still head their group on eight points, ahead of Albania on seven. Poland are third on six points.
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09/08/2023
Karolína Muchová has been knocked out in the semi-finals of tennis’s US Open, after reaching that stage of the tournament for the first time in her career. The Czech, seeded 10th, lost 4-6 5-7 to the world number six, 19-year-old Coco Gauff of the US, despite turning around a poor start in the first set and returning five match balls in Thursday’s clash.
Muchová, who is 27, reached the final of the French Open earlier this season but only has one WTA title to her name, from the Korean Open in 2019.
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09/07/2023
Cardinal Dominik Duka, former archbishop of Prague, has sparked outrage with a post on social networks in which he compared efforts to legalize marriage for all to the war in Ukraine and claimed that both Christians and Jews now "face the same pressure as they did under Nazism". The cardinal wrote that the human being most at threat is not the Ukrainian soldier, but the unborn child who needs a union between a man and a woman. "Yes, the war in Ukraine is terrible, but the war in the West is just as terrible," Duka said. Rabbi David Maxa published an open letter in response to Duka's post, in which he said that the cardinal’s stance was a "massive distortion of the facts" and asked him not to speak for the Jewish community.
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09/07/2023
Friday should be bright and sunny with daytime highs between 25 and 29 degrees Celsius.
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09/07/2023
More than 70 Czech servicemen and women received medals of merit from Deputy Chief of the General Staff Miroslav Hlaváč for their service to the state on Wednesday. Those distinguished served abroad in the military structures of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union. The recipients, among them six women, were posted in close to a dozen countries, including Belgium, Poland, Italy and the United States.
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09/07/2023
Police are investigating a case of F1 and F3 race cars being driven at high speed on the D4 section of the Prague Circuit in the late night hours of Saturday, after a video of the incident appeared on social media. These types of vehicles are not allowed on the road without special permission. The police are working to identify the drivers and the location of the video which appears to have been taken close to the town of Jesnice. Witnesses have been asked to contact the police with any information they can provide. Illegal car races have become increasingly popular on Czech roads and the police have come under criticism for being unable to bring illegal racing under control.
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09/07/2023
Debate on the government’s austerity package entered into its third day in the lower house on Thursday. The opposition parties launched a fierce attack against the government over the proposed changes, accusing it of damaging citizens and companies and breaking its promise not to raise taxes. Alena Schillerová, head of the ANO deputies’ group in the lower house, said the package was predominantly a major hike in taxes that would further raise inflation. The opposition parties are expected to table dozens of proposed amendments. However the ruling coalition has a comfortable majority in both houses and has said it is resolved to push the package through, with only cosmetic changes to be considered.
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