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07/07/2024
The Crystal Globe for Best Film at the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival went to the British documentary A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things by Northern Irish director Mark Cousins. His portrait of the Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, exploring her pivotal 1949 experience on Switzerland's Grindelwald glacier that reshaped the British modernist painter's artistic perspective, beat 11 other contenders in the competition to bag the top prize at the gala closing ceremony on Saturday evening. The trophy also comes with a USD 25,000 cash prize and is awarded to both the film's director and producer equally.
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07/06/2024
Temperature records for July 6 were broken at 11 out of 165 weather stations in Czechia on Saturday, mostly in Prague and Central Bohemia. The highest recorded temperature was 34.3 degrees Celsius in Prague's Libuš district.
Towards the evening the hot weather was replaced by heavy thunderstorms coming from the west, causing trees to fall on railway tracks and roads. In Prague's Braník district, a tree fell on two people during the storm, seriously injuring one of them, a 30-year-old man. The Prague fire service was called out to deal with 12 incidents relating to the weather.
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07/06/2024
Sunday is expected to see more rain and grey skies, with daytime temperatures of around 19 degrees Celsius.
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07/06/2024
Czech tennis player Barbora Krejčíková has advanced to the round of 16 at Wimbledon for the second time in her career. She won against Spain's Jessica Bouzas 6-0, 4-3 on Saturday after the Spaniard dropped out due to a back injury. Krejčíková will next play the American Danielle Collins on Monday for a place in the quarterfinals.
In the women's doubles, Krejčíková's former partner Kateřina Siniaková and the American Taylor Townsend beat France's Elixane Lechemia and the Australian Olivia Gadecki 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 in the second round on Saturday after resuming play. The match was suspended on Friday in the first set due to bad weather.
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07/06/2024
The legacy of Jan Hus was commemorated on Saturday with church services in Prague's Bethlehem Chapel and the South Bohemian town of Husinec. Roughly 100 people attended the ecumenical service in Husinec, where the priest and church reformer was born around 1370. The town's mayor said that more people are expected to attend next year when it will be 610 years since Hus was burned at the stake. July 6 has been a public holiday in the Czech calendar since 1990.
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07/06/2024
The Czech team beat Vietnam 3:0 at the Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup in Manila, the Philippines on Saturday. The highest-scoring player was Gabriela Orvošová with 16 points.
The Czechs are now in the final of the qualifying tournament for the Nations League. They will be playing Puerto Rico at 12:30 CEST on Sunday for a chance at promotion to the elite women's volleyball league.
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07/06/2024
Dutch politician Geert Wilders' far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) is set to join the new political alliance Patriots for Europe in the European Parliament (EP), recently formed by right-wing parties from Czechia, Hungary and Austria: Andrej Babiš's ANO party, Viktor Orban's Fidesz party, and the right-wing populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). In a post on social media site X, Wilders announced the move, wrote that he rejected "illegal migration" and expressed support for Ukraine.
The formation of the Patriots for Europe alliance was announced in Vienna last week by Orban, Babiš, and FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl. Between them, the three founding parties have the minimum number of 23 MEPs required to establish a political group in the European Parliament, but they still need parties from at least four other countries to join them, as the prerequisite also stipulates that an alliance must have MEPs from at least seven EU member states in order to register as an officially recognised parliamentary group.
In addition to Wilders' party, which has six seats in the European Parliament, the far-right Portuguese Chega party and the Spanish Vox party have also said they will join, meaning Patriots for Europe have so far secured MEPs from six countries out of the required seven.
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07/06/2024
The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute has expanded its storm warning for Saturday evening to the whole of Bohemia and Vysočina in addition to south Moravia. The heaviest storms are expected to hit southern Bohemia, with wind speeds of up to 90 km/h.
A high-temperature warning is also in force for South Moravia, Prague, most of central Bohemia and parts of surrounding regions to the north and east, where temperatures are predicted to rise above 31 degrees Celsius on Saturday. The Hydrometeorological Institute advises people to drink lots of fluids, limit outdoor afternoon activities, and not to leave children and pets in direct sunlight, especially in parked cars.
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07/06/2024
President Petr Pavel has joined the Czech head of government Petr Fiala in congratulating Labour leader Keir Starmer on becoming the new UK prime minister. On social media site X on Friday evening, the Czech president said that their two countries were like-minded on many issues and that he looked forward to further advancing bilateral cooperation and enhancing security in Europe and beyond, starting next week at the NATO summit in Washington.
The UK parliamentary elections took place on Thursday, with the Labour landslide victory announced on Friday after 14 years of Conservative rule.
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07/05/2024
Czech Marie Bouzková lost her doubles match with Spain's Sara Sorribes Tormo 6-3, 6-4 against the French duo of Kristina Mladenovic and Caroline Garcia at Wimbledon on Friday. Whether her compatriots Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková will advance to the next round is uncertain as their matches, also scheduled for Friday, were both suspended partway through due to rain.
Krejčíková and her German partner Laura Siegemund were a game away from victory when the weather put a stop to play, leading 7-6(1), 5-4 against the British pair Eden Silva and Samantha Murray Sharan. Meanwhile, Krejčíková's former doubles partner Kateřina Siniaková's match with the American Taylor Townsend had barely got off the ground before it was suspended due to the bad weather. Still only in the first set, Siniaková and Townsend were however leading over the Australian Olivia Gadecki and the French Elixane Lechemia 2-1.
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