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The Geophysical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences is building a new monitoring station near  Horka Dam in the Karlovy Vary region, an area where earthquakes have occurred most frequently on Czech territory in recent decades, the news site Novinky.cz reported. The station should help seismologists to obtain more accurate data than before. Geophysicists issue warnings if tremors of more than 3.5 magnitude are detected. The last time there was an earthquake in the area was last November, when it measured 3.2 degrees on the Richter scale.

Monday should be partly cloudy and mostly dry with day temperatures between 6 and 10 degrees Celsius.

There is a growing interest in educational programs abroad. According to the Czech National Agency for International Education and Research, over 1, 400 schools and organizations have applied for the Erasmus Plus program this year. That is the highest number since the program's launch in the Czech Republic. Last year alone, over twenty-five thousand people took part in educational programs abroad thanks to the EU project. One fifth more schools have applied for the opportunity to send their students abroad this year. Institutions educating adults, such as libraries and museums, submitted about forty percent more applications. And there has also been an increase in interest from organizations such as scout groups and children's homes.

Dozens of people gathered at the Vaclav Havel piazzetta outside the National Theatre in Prague on Saturday evening to mark two years since the Russian attack on the theatre in Mariupol in which many children lost their lives. They formed a sign reading "children", such as the one that appeared on the roof of the Ukrainian theatre when the Russians attacked, and placed candles on the letters. The Russian airstrike hit the theatre in the centre of Mariupol, where about 1,000 people were sheltering. Hundreds of them lost their lives. The commemorative event in Prague was organized by the Czech-Ukrainian initiative Voice of Ukraine.