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The spell of warm weather continues to break temperature records around the country. Record temperatures for February 15 were seen at 27 out of 165 stations keeping records for 30 years or more.

The highest temperature, 16.3 degrees Celsius, was registered in České Budějovice – Rožnov in South Bohemia. According to meteorologists, the unusually warm weather is expected to last in the coming days.

Five new ambassadors to Czechia are set to present their credentials to President Petr Pavel on Thursday. The new diplomats will represent Albania, North Macedonia, Kyrgyzstan, Gambia and Ethiopia.

The ambassadors of Albania and North Macedonia will be based in Prague, while the Kyrgyz ambassador will be based in Vienna, where he also serves as ambassador to Austria. Gambia’s ambassador will be based in Brussels and the new ambassador of Ethiopia will based in Berlin.

Ervín Hoida, one of the last Czechoslovak veterans of World War II, who lived most of his life in Great Britain, has died at the age of 105, the Ministry of Defence announced on the social network X on Thursday.

Hoida, who was born in Ostrava in 1918, escaped Czechoslovakia after the Nazi occupation in 1939 and served in France and later with the Czechoslovak armoured brigade in the UK.

After D-Day, he took part in the liberation of Europe. He returned to Czechoslovakia in 1945, but went back to the UK few months later due to the rising communist threat.

Year-on-year consumer price growth in Czechia slowed to 2.3 percent in January, down from 6.9 percent in December, according to figures released by the Czech Statistics Office on Thursday. While the figure is the lowest since March 2021, it is still above the Czech National Bank’s two-percent inflation target.

According to experts, the slowdown in year-on-year inflation was mainly due to housing-related prices. Electricity prices in particular dropped to 13.3 per cent in January, having previously risen by 142.4 percent in December.