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06/01/2024
Sunday will be mostly overcast and rainy with day temperatures ranging between 20 and 24 degrees Celsius.
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06/01/2024
Several hundred people gathered on Wenceslas Square in Prague on Saturday afternoon for a demonstration calling for peace in Ukraine. The protesters carried banners demanding withdrawal from NATO or an end to the fighting in Ukraine. Among the participants was former Czech Prime Minister Jiří Paroubek and former Slovak politician Ján Čarnogurský.
One of the people behind the event was Ladislav Vrabel from the group “Czechia first”, who organised a series of anti-government protests in Prague in September and October 2022, attracting tens of thousands of people. Vrabel himself has been accused of spreading false information online and is currently facing insolvency related legal proceedings.
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06/01/2024
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has cancelled his #dearMoon mission, which involved a journey around the Moon on a SpaceX rocket with a crew made of eight celebrities, including Czech choreographer Yemi A.D. According to the Japanese fashion mogul, the project, first announced in 2018, was cancelled due to development delays.
The Czech artist shared the news on his Instagram profile, adding that he will continue to pursue his other projects. Among the other crew members selected for the #dearMoon Project was DJ Steve Aoki, YouTuber Tim Dodd, Irish photographer Rhiannon Adam, photographer Karim Iliya, Indian actor Dev Joshi, documentary filmmaker Brendan Hall and South Korean K-pop star TOP.
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06/01/2024
Firefighters responded to dozens of calls on the night from Friday to Saturday due to heavy rain. In central Bohemia, 29 emergencies were reported in the course of the night. The firefighters were called mainly to drain water from flooded cellars and remove fallen trees.
Much of the western part of Czechia is currently being threatened by floods. The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute has declared the highest flood-warning level for part of the Plzeň region, namely the Mže and Radbuza Rivers, which could potentially burst their banks.
Heavy rain has also raised water levels in the Šumava Mountains in southern Bohemia. First-degree flood alert is now on place on the Ostružná and Křemelná Rivers.
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06/01/2024
Czech tennis player Markéta Vondroušová reached the last 16 of the French Open on Friday after beating Chloe Paquet of France 6-1, 6-3. The 24-year-old Czech, who became the first unseeded player to win Wimbledon last year, lost the finals at Roland Garros in 2019. The fifth seed will face Serbia’s qualifier Olga Danilovic in the next round.
Another Czech, Marie Bouzková, was defeated by world number one Iga Swiatek 6-4, 6-2. In the men’s singles, Tomáš Macháč will face Daniil Medvedev in the third round after defeating Portugal’s Nuno Borges.
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06/01/2024
A ceremony was held on Saturday at Prague’s Ďáblice Cemetery to remember the child victims of Czechoslovakia’s communist regime. The event, which falls on International Children’s Day, was organised by the civic association BEZkomunistu.cz.
There are 43 gravestones of children at the Ďáblice cemetery who were born in prisons and died due to insufficient care or after being mistreated. There are also an unspecified number of children who were buried at sites without any names or other details.
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06/01/2024
The Kramář Villa, the official residence of Czech prime ministers, will open its doors to the public on Saturday June 1. The building, which offers stunning views of Prague, now mainly serves to host meetings with diplomats and foreign statesmen. It is named after the first Czechoslovak Prime Minister Karel Kramář who had it built in 1915. The guided tours start at 9am and end at 4pm.
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05/31/2024
The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute has increased its flood warning for western Bohemia, with part of the Plzeň Region now at an extreme risk of flooding (the third and highest level in the Czech flood warning system). Heavy rainfall over the weekend threatens to cause water levels in the Mže and Radbuza rivers to rise sharply and potentially burst their banks. Lower levels of flood warning are also present in other parts of western Bohemia in the Plzeň, Karlovy Vary, Ustí nad Labem and Central Bohemian regions, as well as the western part of South Bohemia.
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05/31/2024
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has called on the alliance's member states to commit to jointly providing Ukraine with at least 40 billion euros per year and to fairly distribute the financial burden among themselves. At a press conference after Friday's informal meeting of NATO foreign ministers, he said that he expects the alliance to make more decisions regarding aid to Ukraine at the NATO summit in Washington in July.
He also said the alliance will work on further charting Ukraine's path to joining NATO, as membership will be its biggest security guarantee, and that Ukraine defending itself is not an escalation of the conflict but a fundamental right.
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05/31/2024
Trust in President Petr Pavel has fallen slightly since last year but still remains at over 50 percent, according to the latest STEM survey. Last May, 60 percent of Czechs said they trusted the head of state, while this year that number has fallen to 53 percent.
Young people have more confidence in him than older people, with 63 percent of under-29s saying they trust him, while only 43 percent of people aged over 60 reported the same.
People with a university education were most likely to say they trusted him, followed by people with secondary education and a school leaving exam, while people with a primary school education and vocational training were the only socio-economic group from the survey where a majority of people said they did not trust him.
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