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08/30/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Thursday, with an average high temperature of 19 degrees Celsius. Warmer weather is expected at the weekend.
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08/30/2023
A number of Czech banks experienced outages of their internet banking or their websites on Wednesday. Komerční banka, Česká spořitelna, ČSOB, Air Bank and Fio banka all reported problems, the Czech News Agency said.
A spokesperson for the Czech Banking Association said the banks had been the victim of cyber attacks. A representative of Česká spořitelna told the news site iRozhlas.cz that it had been hit by distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks.
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08/30/2023
The Czech ambassador to Washington says the US today regards Czechia and Poland as its biggest partners in Central Europe, mainly thanks to the countries’ support for Ukraine. Miloslav Stašek made the comment in an interview for the Czech News Agency published on Wednesday.
Mr. Stašek said Czechia’s credit in the US had risen enormously and that the country had put itself on the Americans’ geopolitical map.
The diplomat said Czechia merited having its leader received at the White House but that the date of a long-planned visit to Washington by PM Petr Fiala had not yet been set.
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08/30/2023
A number of major companies in Czechia are set to call on Prime Minister Petr Fiala to push for marriage equality legislation, Seznam Zprávy reported. Vodafone, Microsoft, Danone, Ikea and the bank ČSOB are among dozens of firms who plan to make the appeal to Mr. Fiala next week, the news site said.
Vodafone boss Petr Dvořák said supporting LGBTQ+ people was a human rights issue and that unequal legislation had an economic impact.
Mr. Fiala has in the past said that marriage should only be between a man and a woman and that nobody could convince him people of the same gender could create a marriage or family equal to a "natural" one.
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08/30/2023
Wimbledon winner Markéta Vondroušová has reached the second round of tennis’s US Open in New York, with the ninth seed defeating South Korea’s Han Na-lae 6-3 6-0 in 62 minutes on Tuesday. Karolína Plíšková, seeded 25th, also advanced, knocking out Elena-Gabriela Ruse of Romania 6-1 6-4.
Marie Bouzková defeated Ashlyn Krueger of the US 7-5 6-4 and 18-year-old Linda Nosková beat another American, Madison Brengle, 6-2 6-1.
However, Barbora Krejčíková, seeded 12th, lost 4-6 6-7 to Italy’s Lucia Bronzetti, while Barbora Strýcová has played her last ever singles match; the 37-year-old, who is about to retire, lost 4-6 4-6 to Kaia Kanepi of Estonia.
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08/29/2023
Russia's aggression and growing assertiveness threaten to undermine the international order built on agreed rules and cooperation, President Petr Pavel told Czech ambassadors in a speech at Prague Castle on Tuesday.
The head of state told the gathering of diplomats that he was proud of the strength and unity with which Czechia had stood up for Ukraine and provided shelter for refugees; at the same time, it has managed to break free from its dependence on Russian energy, as impossible as that may have once appeared.
Mr. Pavel said a Russian victory could not be allowed, adding that Moscow had never accepted its loss of political influence over Czechia.
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08/29/2023
The Czech economy contracted by 0.4 percent year-on-year in the second quarter of 2023, according to a revised estimate from the Czech Statistics Office published on Tuesday. However, the economy grew slightly compared to the first quarter of the year.
In addition, the economy did better in the second quarter than economists at the Czech National Bank had expected.
The year-on-year contraction has been attributed to Czech households, which attempted to save money and reduced consumption in the period in question.
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08/29/2023
Czech national soccer team coach Jaroslav Šilhavý has called up no uncapped players for two upcoming games. Captain Tomáš Souček was injured during a Premier League clash at the weekend but will be fit for the matches, a home European Championship qualifier against Albania next Thursday and an away friendly against Hungary three days later.
Striker Patrik Schick is still recovering from an operation and has not been called up. Goalkeeper Tomáš Vaclík, who recently signed for US club New England Revolution, did not make the 23-man squad.
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08/29/2023
Czech President Petr Pavel held talks with his North Macedonian counterpart, Stevo Pendarovski, at Prague Castle on Tuesday. The two discussed security and North Macedonia’s accession to the European Union, with Mr. Pavel saying that it was in Czechia’s interest for the Balkans to be fully integrated into NATO and the EU.
The Czech head of state said Mr. Pendarovski represented a region that was naturally of interest to Czechia in terms of its own security, but also the security and stability of Europe.
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08/29/2023
One of Czechia’s leading hospitals, Prague’s IKEM, was raided by the police on Tuesday morning. Officers from the force’s internal affairs and organised crime units took part in the operation, with a spokesperson for the latter saying no arrests had been made.
The news outlet Seznam Zprávy reported that the raids were in connection with the former head of IKEM, Michal Stiborek. He resigned recently, following accusations he had made tens of millions of crowns through loans at extortionate rates.
Internal affairs are investigating suspected coercion and extortion at IKEM, while the organised crime police are looking into possible manipulation of contracts and corruption, Czech Television reported.
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