• 07/21/2024

    The Czech National Bank bought almost six tonnes of gold in the second quarter of 2024, Czech Television reported on Sunday, citing the central bank's data on the structure of foreign exchange reserves.

    At the end of July, the amount of gold in the central bank's reserves reached 41.49 tonnes. Over the past twelve months, the Czech National Bank's gold reserves have more than doubled.

    Author: Ruth Fraňková
  • 07/21/2024

    Second seed Karolina Muchova reached the final of the Palermo Open by defeating Romania’s Irina-Camelia Begu 6-1, 6-1 on Saturday evening. The former French Open finalist, ranked No. 35, will face the top seeded Qinwen Zheng of China for the title.

    The 27-year-old Czech reached her fifth career final and her first since last August, when she played for the title in Cincinnati. She only triumphed in Seoul in September 2019.

    Author: Ruth Fraňková
  • 07/21/2024

    The Prague Open women’s tennis tournament gets underway in the Czech capital on Sunday. Sara Bejlek will be the first local tennis player to appear in the singles, taking on the third seeded Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina in the afternoon.

    Fresh Wimbledon winner Barbora Krejcikova withdrew from the women’s singles due to a busy schedule before the Olympics. However, she will appear in the doubles alongside Kateřina Siniaková. Wimbledon doubles champion Siniaková will also play singles.

    Author: Ruth Fraňková
  • 07/20/2024

    Sunday is expected to be mostly sunny with day temepratures ranging between 28 and 32 degres Celsius.

    Author: Ruth Fraňková
  • 07/20/2024

    Czech tennis player Karolína Muchová has reached the semifinals of the Palermo Open after defeating Astra Sharma of Australia 7-6, 7-6 on Friday.

    The former French Open finalist, ranked No. 35, will face Romania's Irina-Camelia Begu for a place in the finals.

    Author: Ruth Fraňková
  • 07/20/2024

    The first parts of the new Spyder anti-aircraft defence system, acquired by the Czech army from Israel, have arrived in Czechia, Czech Radio’s news site iROZHLAS.cz wrote on Saturday. They are now being assembled at the Military Technical Institute in Prague.

    The contract for the delivery of four batteries of the Israeli Spyder system was signed by the defence ministry in 2021. It is to replace the Soviet-made 2K12 KUB equipment, which is more than 40 years old. Each unit contains a radar, four launchers, a charging vehicle and fire command and control system.

    Czechia has recently negotiated several large military contracts with Israel. In addition to the purchase of Spyders, they included MADR mobile radars, the last of eight of which arrived in the country last December.

    Author: Ruth Fraňková
  • 07/20/2024

    The body of Czech climber Milan Sedláček, who died in the Himalayas in 2012, was removed from the mountains during a recent clean-up operation regularly organized by the Nepalese authorities.

    The BBC News website reported on Saturday that the Nepalese army had found Sedláček's identity documents on one of the bodies. Three other bodies and one skeleton were also retrieved during the operation.

    Sedláček, then 50, was part of an expedition led by Leopold Sulovský, the first Czech climber to summit Mount Everest, died while descending from the summit of Lhotse, the world’s fourth highest mountain.

    Author: Ruth Fraňková
  • 07/20/2024

    The four-day Colours of Ostrava music festival is drawing to an end, with UK producer and singer James Blake and Swedish artist Zara Larsson set to headline Saturday’s closing night. Also performing will be the Dutch-Iranian musician Sevdaliza, who failed to arrive on Friday do the global IT outage.

    The biggest star on Friday was the American singer Lenny Kravitz, whose perfromance was attended by Czech President Petr Pavel. Fans at the festival’s venue in Ostrava’s ex-industrial Vítkovice district also got to see the UK singer Sam Smith and the popular Czech band Tata Bojs.

    This year’s has been the 21st edition of Colours of Ostrava, which is one of the biggest events of its kind in Central Europe.

    Author: Ruth Fraňková
  • 07/20/2024

    A replica of a Roman rowboat, built by experts from the German University of Erlangen-Nuremberg based on archaeological findings, docked on Saturday at the Nové Mlýny Reservoir in Pasohlávky, south Moravia.

    The 18-metre-long and five-tonne boat is part of the summer programme Gateway to the Roman Empire, organised by the Czech Academy of Science’s Institute of Archaeology in Brno.

    The boat, which can accommodate 20 people, was made using the same methods once used by Roman craftsmen. It will be on display at the Visitor Centre Mušov until September 5.

    Author: Ruth Fraňková
  • 07/20/2024

    All air carriers at Prague Airport affected by Friday's worldwide IT outage have resumed normal operations by Saturday morning, the airport’s spokeswoman told the Czech News Agency. However, she still advised passengers to keep track of their flights on the airport’s flight information website.

    Twelve arrivals and 13 departures were cancelled at Václav Havel Airport Prague, while 83 arrivals and 113 departures were delayed on Friday after a mistake in a software update sparked hours-long outages in global computer systems affecting airlines, media and banks.

    Among the Czech businesses and services hit by the outage on Friday were BENU pharmacies, the online prescription service eRecept and insurance company Allianz, one of the biggest in the country.

    Author: Ruth Fraňková

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