Radek Juška has set a new Czech record in the long jump for the second time this year. The athlete, who is 24, achieved a new best of 831 centimetres at the Summer Universiade in Taipei on Sunday. That distance was 2 centimetres longer than a jump he made in May. Juška’s achievement...
News site: Lithium mine to be restricted to 23 hectares
Lithium should be mined on an area of around 23 hectares at Horní Slavkov in West Bohemia, according to a binding environmental impact assessment conducted by the Ministry of the Environment, Novinky.cz reported. The site is at a waste pond left behind after the mining of tin in the area. A proposal…
Weather forecast
Monday should be partly cloudy, with temperatures of up to 23 degrees Celsius. The following days are due to see clear skies and daytime highs of up to 28 degrees Celsius. ...
Ads explaining smoking ban to appear in coming months
The Ministry of Health is planning an information campaign this autumn to clarify questions surrounding a ban on smoking in Czech pubs and restaurants that came into effect at the end of May, the Czech...
Sparta defeat intensifies pressure on Stramaccioni
The country’s richest club Sparta Prague were beaten 2:0 away at Brno on Saturday evening, despite the fact that the hosts began the game at the bottom of the table. Both goals came from dead-ball situations. The result leaves Sparta fifth in the table after five rounds. The result is likely to increase…
Daily news summary 26.8.2017
25 years since split agreement, Czech-Slovak relations praised, MPs read file
Four Czech officers to begin training Iraqi military police in September
The Czech military police will deploy four specialists to Iraq to train their local counterparts in Iraq next month, military police commander Pavel Kříž told the Czech News Agency on Saturday. The four will join a mission in which other Czech officers have been serving in the country since last year.…
Parties preparing to intensify campaigning for October’s elections
The main political parties in the Czech Republic are planning to step up their campaigning in the coming weeks for October’s general elections, the Czech News Agency reported. The Social Democrats are set to launch the main phase of their campaign in all 14 Czech regions on Tuesday. The Civic Democrats…
Zeman says he proposed looser union as alternative to split of Czechoslovakia
President Miloš Zeman says the Czech Republic and Slovakia have extraordinarily great and fraternal relations a quarter century after the breakup of their joint state. Communicating through a spokesperson, Mr. Zeman said the fact both states had joined the European Union had contributed to their good…
Committee members begin reading police file on ANO MPs
MP Stanislav Huml on Friday became the first member of the lower house’s Mandates and Immunity Committee to examine the police’s file against ANO deputies Andrej Babiš and Jaroslav Faltýnek. Mr. Huml told the daily Právo that he had been allowed to take notes while going through the 3,500-page document…