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10/27/2023
President Petr Pavel will be handing out state awards to over 60 people on Czechoslovak Independence Day, the head of the president's office, Jana Vohralíková, told journalists on Friday. October 28 is a public holiday in the Czech Republic marking the founding of Czechoslovakia in 1918. On this day, the president hands out high state distinctions to people for "outstanding services" to the Czech Republic. The president's office has not divulged the names of the recipients before the ceremony, but former foreign minister and one-time presidential candidate Karel Schwarzenberg told the Czech daily Právo that he will be receiving the highest award, the Order of the White Lion.
Due to the ceremony, the Old Royal Palace, the Story of Prague Castle exhibition and the Royal Garden, including the Jiří Štourač exhibition, will be closed all day on Saturday, while the Prague Castle grounds will be closed to the public from 3.00 pm, with last entry at 2.30 pm.
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10/27/2023
A Czech climber has died in Nepal while climbing in the Himalayas, apparently by slipping and falling, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Daniel Drake told the Czech News Agency on Friday. CNN Prima News reported that the local police in Nepal had informed the Czech consulate in Kathmandu about the death of a Czech citizen, information which the consulate then forwarded to the embassy in Delhi. The Foreign Ministry was informed of the man's death on Thursday. The incident is currently being investigated further.
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10/26/2023
The world-renowned Czech conductor Zdeněk Mácal died on Wednesday at the age of 87, the Czech News Agency reports. During his long career, he conducted more than 170 major orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Royal Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and the Chicago and Boston Symphony Orchestras. Between 2003 and 2007, he was also chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic in his native country.
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10/26/2023
Morocco stands behind the Palestinian Authority headed by Mahmoud Abbas and appeals for a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said after Thursday's meeting with his Czech counterpart, Jan Lipavský. Mr. Bourita said that Morocco will always be of the opinion that the armed conflict must end and that any solution is preferable to a military one, adding that the violence taking place "is completely unacceptable from the point of view of the international community and human reason". He also spoke about the necessity of humanitarian aid reaching civilians.
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said that he reiterated Czechia's position during the meeting that Hamas is a terrorist organization and that Israel has Czechia's unequivocal support, but added that "we all must strive" to prevent the armed conflict from spreading further in the region. He said that humanitarian aid is also important to Czechia, but that it shouldn't be in a form that would prevent the defeat of Hamas, which he described as a "terrorist movement which has committed heinous crimes against innocent Israeli citizens".
However, the two foreign ministers found common ground in their shared understanding of the need to increase pressure on Russia to end its war against Ukraine, Mr. Lipavský said.
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10/26/2023
Friday is expected to be wet and overcast, with daytime temperatures of 10 to 11 degrees Celsius.
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10/26/2023
It is clear who is the victim and who is the aggressor in the Israel-Hamas war, Prime Minister Petr Fiala told journalists at a press conference before departing for an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday. He stated that he intends to lobby for Israel's right to self-defence to be confirmed in the European Council's conclusions.
When asked about a possible Israeli ground operation in the Gaza Strip, the prime minister reiterated that Israel had the right to defend itself by any means it deems appropriate in order to protect its civilian population. He said that the Czech Republic would agree to the creation of humanitarian corridors in Gaza if they were mentioned in the European Council's conclusions, but added that he did not consider this to be the most important thing that should be mentioned in the conclusions, saying that Israel's right to self-defence must be emphasised above all.
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10/26/2023
The police have again charged former TV Nova reporter Jana Peterková with spreading alarmist news, Czech Television reports. In a video published on social media, she stated that war would be declared after the current Czech president Petr Pavel took office. Ms. Peterková already received a two-year suspended sentence in May for the same crime.
The former journalist now faces up to five years in prison, as she has already been legally convicted for the same crime. Her previous conviction was due to videos she made during the coronavirus pandemic in which she spread false information about people dying after being vaccinated against covid-19 and Czechia being occupied by NATO troops.
Some of her supporters were charged last week with disorderly conduct, violence against a public authority and contempt of court after they disrupted her appeal hearing in May by breaking down a door and attacking the judicial guard.
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10/26/2023
Eva Filipi is stepping down as Czech ambassador to Syria on October 31 after 13 years in the post, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Daniel Drake confirmed to Czech news site Seznam Zprávy.
Seznam Zprávy describes Eva Filipi's tenure in Syria as "one of the most mysterious projects of Czech diplomacy". Ms. Filipi was one of the very few Western diplomats who remained in Syria during the civil war, and Czechia was the only EU country to maintain operations at its embassy in Syria throughout the conflict. The Czech embassy also represented the United States in Syria, as the US closed its embassy in the country in 2012.
Ms. Filipi received a state award from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad before the end of her tenure, which the Czech Foreign Ministry describes as "standard procedure" for departing ambassadors in Syria, with the formal event fully under the control of the host country.
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10/26/2023
The Czech counter-intelligence service BIS has named Russia Czechia's biggest security threat in its annual report, saying that the invasion of Ukraine confirmed the risks that BIS and intelligence services in other democratic countries had been warning of for years. The report said that Russian cyberespionage activities in Czechia decreased slightly last year, but that cyberattacks on Czech institutions and companies by Russian hacking groups increased.
BIS evaluated the expulsion last year of further Russian embassy staff from Czechia as a positive move, as many of these people were connected to Russian intelligence services and used their official positions and diplomatic protection to cover up their espionage activities. However, the intelligence agency warned that the risk of Russia carrying out hostile activities using non-diplomatic cover could increase as a result.
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10/26/2023
The film ‘Brothers’, a retelling of the Cold War story of the controversial Mašín brothers, premiers in Czech cinemas on Thursday.
The film, which has been selected by the Czech Film and Television Academy as the Czech Oscar nominee for 2024, was written by screenwriter Marek Epstein and directed by Tomáš Mašín, a distant relative of the Mašíns.
It dramatises the events surrounding the Mašín brothers forming an armed resistance group and escaping from communist Czechoslovakia to West Berlin in 1953.
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