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04/14/2024
The Czech women’s ice hockey team lost 0-4 to the favoured Canada in the semi-final of the World Championship in Utica in the United States. The Czechs will play Finland for the bronze medal in their final game of the tournament on Sunday evening.
Meanwhile, Canada will face the United States for gold for the 22nd time in 23 tournaments the championships were established in 1990.
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04/14/2024
The Foreign Ministry has urged Czechs in Israel to exercise maximum caution in the wake of Iran’s attack on the country and is considering tightening travel advise to Israel, the ministry’s spokesman Daniel Drake told the Czech News Agency. He also said the 84 Czech citizens registered in the DROZD travel system had been sent messages to that effect.
The ministry on Friday issued a warning against travel to Iran and urged Czech citizens staying in the country to leave due to the security risks for EU citizens in the context of the current internal and international political situation.
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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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