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04/14/2024
The Czech Foreign Ministry has condemned Iran’s attack on Israel that began late on Saturday evening. "Czechia firmly condemns the destabilizing behavior of Iran and its proxies who decided to attack Israel. We reiterate the Israeli right for self-defense. Iran’s long term aggressive behavior is preventing the Middle East region to live in peace and security," the ministry said on social networks.
Words of support for Israel have also come from the Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala. “We stand firmly behind Israel and its right to defend itself,” he wrote on the X network.
Iran launched a large-scale air strike on Israel on Saturday night in response to a recent attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus attributed to the Jewish state. According to the Israeli Army, Iran launched more than 300 drones and missiles, 99 percent of which were intercepted.
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04/13/2024
Tomio Okamura has been re-elected chairman of the Freedom and Direct Democracy party. He received the backing of 195 out of 216 delegates at a congress in Prague on Saturday. The result means that Mr. Okamura will lead the anti-migrant, Eurosceptic party – which he founded in 2015 – for another three years.
Mr. Okamura opened the party conference, which was also attended by ex-president Miloš Zeman, by criticizing the government and rejecting war, migration and the euro.
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04/13/2024
Sunday will be mostly sunny with day temperatures ranging between 21 and 26 degrees Celsius.
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04/13/2024
Civic Democratic Party chairman Petr Fiala was re-elected party leader at the party’s election conference in Ostrava on Saturday. Mr. Fiala, who has led the grouping since 2014, ran for the top post unchallenged and was supported by 424 delegates out of 525.
In his speech to the assembly, Mr. Fiala said the party’s goal was to succeed in the elections to the Chamber of Deputies in 2025. Polls suggest the Civic Democrats have the support of 14 to 15 percent of voters.
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04/13/2024
Josef Nuzík has officially become the new archbishop in Olomouc after he was officially inaugurated to the post by Jude Thaddeus Okolo, Apostolic Nuncio to Czechia during a service in the city’s St. Wenceslas Cathedral on Saturday.
The event, which was broadcast on a large screen on Olomouc’s Wenceslas Square, was attended by 24 bishops from Czechia and abroad as well as by government representatives and church leaders.
Mr. Nuzík, who is 57, was appointed Archbishop of Olomouc by Pope Francis on 9 February. He replaces Jan Graubner in the office, who became Prague Archbishop in 2022.
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04/13/2024
Mountaineer Klára Kolouchová became the first Czech woman to reach the summit of Annapurna, the Czech News Agency reported, citing the website exlorersweb.com.
Kolouchová, who is 45, ascended the 8,091-metre high Himalayan peak and the tenth highest mountain in the world on Friday morning with a group of Nepalese Sherpas. The expedition also included Ukrainian Iryna Karaganova and British Samiur Rashidova.
Kolouchová is also the first Czech woman who successfully ascended all the of the world’s highest peaks, Mt. Everest, Kanchenjunga and K2.
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04/13/2024
A one-day national food collection began in Czechia on Saturday morning. Some 2,100 shops and supermarket chains, including online ones, are taking part in the event, which has been held twice annually since 2019.
The collection is focused on non-perishable foodstuffs and hygiene products, which are later distributed to the needy, including seniors, single mothers, the handicapped, disadvantaged families and children in care homes. Over the past 11 years, it succeeded in gathering 4,860 tonnes of goods.
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04/12/2024
Jenny Sividya, a survivor of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel in which 1200 people were killed and 250 kidnapped, will attend Sunday's Culture against Antisemitism event in Prague, the Czech News Agency reports. The goal of the event is to commemorate and draw attention to the events of October 7, one of the organisers said. Jenny Sividya said that the October 7 Hamas attack is increasingly being disputed or denied and their only goal is to tell people that it happened.
Sunday's event will start at 2:00 p.m. with a march starting in Old Town Square and ending in the Wallenstein gardens, where the main part of the program will take place, with the stories of people who experienced the October 7 attack will be performed by actors. The event will also discuss the current situation in Gaza, where the UN warns there is a threat of famine and 33,545 Palestinians have been killed in retaliatory attacks by Israel.
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04/12/2024
The lower house of the Czech parliament has approved the coalition's proposal to increase care allowances for people with disabilities and to increase support for the provision of social services in their home environment. From July, contributions to care will increase by roughly one-tenth to two-fifths.
The lower house rejected proposals by the opposition to increase some benefits by even more than was suggested by the government. The proposal will now go to the Senate.
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04/12/2024
Czechia has still not caught up with the EU average in terms of health even 20 years after joining the European Union, the National Institute for Research on Socioeconomic Impacts of Diseases and Systemic Risks (SYRI) stated in a press release on Friday. Mortality from preventable causes is 25 percent higher in Czechia than the EU average. Life expectancy in Czechia since the country joined the EU has increased by roughly four years, but the difference between the Czech (79.1) and EU (80.7) average life expectancies is still practically the same as it was two decades ago.
The SYRI says the typically unhealthy lifestyle of Czechs is mostly to blame, such as excessive alcohol consumption, smoking, poor diet and lack of physical activity.
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