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According to Prime Minister Petr Fiala, the Coalition of the Willing, those countries supporting Ukraine, want to force Russia to negotiate peace in Ukraine. Thursday’s negotiations, chaired by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, were the largest to date, and the United States also participated for the first time, PM Fiala wrote on the X network. The negotiations concerned military support for Ukraine and economic pressure on Russia.
Fiala, like Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and US Special Representative for Ukraine Keith Kellogg, joined via video. The Coalition of the Willing announced today that Paris would be its new permanent headquarters. After the first year, the headquarters would then move to Britain. According to the allies, a future coordination cell in Kyiv is also planned.
During his visit to the Historical Museum of Military Motor Vehicles in Rome on Thursday, President Petr Pavel conveyed an offer from the company Škoda Auto, which wants to renovate the local exhibit of the historic Laurin & Klement CCCC motorcycle. Until now, the company had been negotiating a one-year loan with the Italian side, but it is interested in extending it.
The mining of brown coal at the Bílina mine in North Bohemia will end no later than 2033. This was confirmed by the Czech Mining Authority in its decision, which it published on the official notice board. In mid-May, the Ministry of the Environment and the semi-state group ČEZ, which owns Severočeské doly, agreed on ending mining in 2033. The original deadline was 2035.
A court in Plzeň on Friday imposed a suspended sentence on 50-year-old Zdeněk Holzknecht, accused of assaulting two women from Ukraine at a fair in Plasy in 2023. The convicted owner of fairground attractions faced charges of bodily harm, disorderly conduct, and violence against a group of residents and an individual, and faced up to five years in prison. The court found him guilty only of disorderly conduct.
The court concluded that it was not possible to convict the man beyond reasonable doubt of causing injury to one of the women, and it was not proven that he had committed violence against foreign women because of their Ukrainian nationality.
According to new research by the STEM agency, one in three people in Czechia participated in some form of volunteer activity last year. “It’s often things like helping with childcare, walking someone's dog, or bringing groceries,” says research director Jaromír Mazák. In addition to volunteering, the research also highlights the generosity of people in Czechia. Donors are most willing to give money for the care of individuals who are ill.
A man from Hradec Králové who seriously injured his five-month-old son has been charged with murder. After being hospitalised, the child later died from the injuries. The police have reclassified the man's actions based on the results of an expert report, police spokeswoman Martina Jandová told ČTK on Friday.
The 36-year-old man was originally charged with grievous bodily harm by the police. If found guilty, he now faces up to twenty years in prison for murder. The case occurred in the Hradec Králové region, first reported by the police in the spring.
Had the parliamentary elections been held in June, they would have been won by the ANO movement, which, according to the Median model, would have received 32% of the vote. This is the same result as in May. The Spolu coalition would finish in second place with 19%, down two percentage points.
The Freedom and Direct Democracy party, with the support of other parties, would be third with 14%. The Mayors and Independents weakened to 9%, and the Pirates strengthened to 8%. The Stačilo! alliance and the Motorists would also narrowly enter the Chamber of Deputies with the same gain of 5.5%. The survey was conducted at a time when the case of bitcoins donated to the state broke out, which led to the resignation of Justice Minister Pavel Blažek.
Saturday will be overcast to cloudy, at most places with rain or showers. Temperatures will range between 16 to 20 °C.
Foreigners make up approximately 25% of Prague’s population, and that number is expected to increase. But is the city building fast enough to meet demand? Jakub Ferenčík spoke with Zdeňka Havlová, a researcher at the Prague Institute of Planning and Development (IPR Prague), to figure out how many new units Prague needs to build to meet this demand, and more.
The Czech Army has unexpectdly scrapped its psychological support helpline, set up during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020. Soldiers in need of support are advised to turn to army psychologists instead. Critics are questioning the wisdom of the move, arguing that one of the key attributes of the helpline was that it was anonymous.
Kateřina Siniaková and her tennis partner, Dutchman Sem Verbeek, are Wimbledon champions after beating the duo Stefani-Salisbury in two straight sets, both 7-3 in tie-break. The Czech tennis star is back in action today in the semi-finals of Women’s Doubles, a discipline she already won last year alongside Taylor Townsend.
Dozens of medical students from around the world gathered in Pilsen this summer to take part in an intensive course in experimental surgery. The program gives them valuable hands-on-training in a wide range of surgical techniques performed on live pigs.
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