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05/21/2024
Czech police have recommended that 14 people be charged with organising illegal migration from Turkey to Czechia and elsewhere in Europe. The accused are in custody on suspicion of smuggling at least 2,000 people across state borders, a crime that is punishable by up to 16 years in prison.
A spokesperson for the police’s organised crime unit said on Tuesday that progress had been made in the case, which involves 13 foreigners and one Czech.
Since they were first charged last June the police have revised upward the number of suspected cases of illegal migration connected to the 14.
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05/21/2024
The world premiere of the musical composition Pianofonia by Michal Rataj and Jan Trojan took place in the unusual venue of the National Technical Museum in Prague on Monday evening. The piece is performed using part of pianos and two complete instruments and was created in cooperation with the Czech piano maker Petrof.
The event was part of the 79th Prague Spring International Music Festival, which runs until June 3.
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05/21/2024
It should be mainly overcast with some rain in Czechia on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 18 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is expected on the following days.
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05/21/2024
The Ice Hockey World Championship, currently underway in Prague and Ostrava, is on track to break its own spectator record set in 2015, when over 741,000 spectators attended the games. During the first nine days of this year's tournament, the organizers reported over half a million visitors. If this trend continues, the championship could attract over 800,000 spectators. The capacity of both arenas has increased since the last tournament. Prague’s O2 arena can now accommodate 17, 400 spectators, the Ostrava arena just over 9,000. The first six of the eight games played in Ostrava were completely sold out.
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05/21/2024
Prime Minister Petr Fiala has criticized the International Criminal Court's decision to seek arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defence chief and three Hamas leaders over alleged war crimes.
"The ICC Chief Prosecutor's proposal to issue an arrest warrant for the representatives of a democratically elected government together with the leaders of an Islamist terrorist organisation is appalling and completely unacceptable,” Fiala wrote on X.
"We must not forget that it was Hamas that attacked Israel in October and killed, injured and kidnapped thousands of innocent people. It was this completely unprovoked terrorist attack that led to the current war in Gaza and the suffering of civilians in Gaza, Israel and Lebanon," the Czech prime minister concluded.
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05/20/2024
At a conference on nuclear safety in Vienna, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský praised the efforts of the International Atomic Energy Agency to monitor the situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. The Czech foreign minister said the occupation of the plant by Russia poses a high risk, and he criticized the fact that the agency's staff does not have full access to the plant and its surroundings. Lipavsky also pointed out the serious nuclear safety risks linked to Ukraine's three other nuclear power plants, such as the possibility of a drone or cyber-attack.
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05/20/2024
President Petr Pavel has once again urged the Fiala government to consider setting a time frame for euro adoption and moving towards that goal. Speaking at a business conference in Prague on Monday, the head of state said the benefits of euro adoption were obvious considering Czechia’s export oriented economy and pointed out that it would also be useful for Czechs travelling abroad.
The Fiala administration appears to be divided on the issue. While the Mayors and Independents and the Pirate Party have been leaning towards the euro in recent months, Finance Minister Zbynek Stanjura of the Civic Democrats recently made it clear that the Fiala government would not be setting a time frame for euro adoption during this term in office and would leave the decision to the government that will emerge from the 2025 general elections.
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05/20/2024
Tuesday should be partly cloudy with scattered showers and storms around the country and day temperatures between 19 and 23 degrees Celsius.
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05/20/2024
The Museum in Jablonec nad Nisou is exhibiting an unusual series of fused glass portraits of personalities created by artist František Janák. Visitors will recognize the faces of Charles IV, Rudolf II, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Winston Churchill and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, among others. The portraits were created using the technique of fused glass sculpture. Also on display is the work of Alena Matějka, an internationally renowned Czech glass artist and sculptor, whose art pieces grace numerous public and private collections in Czechia and abroad.
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05/20/2024
The state enterprise Lesy ČR saw its net profit drop by 24 percent from CZK 5.03 billion to CZK 3.84 billion in 2022, according to a financial report made public on Monday. The main reason for the drop in profit was a reduction in timber harvesting in the wake of a severe bark beetle calamity. The company’s main goal now is reforestation. Lesy ČR, which has 3,800 employees, manages almost half of the forests in the Czech Republic.
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