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Blues prospect Adam Jiricek eyes healthy season after injury-marred campaign in 2024-25
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Missouri
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Adam Jiricek (37) shoots the puck during the first day of Blues development camp Monday, June 30, 2025, at the Centene Community Ice Center in Maryland Heights. Eli Randolph, Post-Dispatch As the Blues opened their development camp Monday, any...
Aviation Innovation: Prague Airport Traveler Experience Takes Off
Forbes
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According to Radek Nehoda, operating an airport is a bit like conducting an orchestra. Both systems are symphonies of human effort, discipline, and coordination. One moves people across continents; the other moves hearts and minds. Nehoda, who is...
Saxon Cancel String of Shows Following Biff Byford Health Scare
MetalSucks
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June 30, 2025
We’ve got some pretty sad news for Saxon fans today… In an unexpected turn of events, the British heavy metal group has cancelled 10 shows this summer. Saxon has issued a statement saying that it’s due to their vocalist, Biff Byford, needing to...
Taipei: Vice-President Hsiao followed in Prague. 'No to intimidation'
Asia News
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June 30, 2025
The Czech intelligence service's complaint against agents of the People's Republic of China, which denies the charges and speaks of “interference in internal affairs”. Meanwhile, today is the deadline for Chinese immigrants in Taiwan to prove that...
Meth Still Dominates Czech Drug Market, Though Interest in Cocaine is Growing
Brno Daily
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June 30, 2025
As in previous years, the Czech drug market is dominated by pervitin (methamphetamine), mostly produced in small laboratories, though interest in cocaine has recently also been growing, according to the 2024 annual report of the National Drug...
Veteran Czech defender Pavel Kaderabek returns to Sparta Prague after 10 years at Hoffenheim
Newsday - New York
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PRAGUE — Veteran defender Pavel Kaderabek is returning to Sparta Prague after 10 years with Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga, the Czech club said on Monday. Sparta did not give details about his contract. The 33-year-old right back, who can also play...
Weather Forecast: Czechia Faces Heatwave, Up to 37°C Expected
Prague Morning
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June 30, 2025
The Czech Republic is heading into one of the hottest weeks of the year, with the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (ČHMÚ) issuing a heat warning that could remain in effect for several days. A large high-pressure system moving eastward from...
Czech news in brief for June 29: Sunday's top headlines
Expats.cz
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June 29, 2025
President Petr Pavel said the next Czech government should set no more than five clear spending priorities, with national security taking precedence. In a CNN Prima News debate, he warned that having too many goals means having none. He cited...
How to find a great dentist in Prague (and what to expect)
Expats.cz
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June 29, 2025
Located in a newly renovated clinic in Modřany, this practice is run by Dr. Yuriy Oryshchak, who has more than 15 years of experience and specializes in implants and oral surgery. Services range from routine cleanings to full mouth restorations,...
One killed, two injured in Saunders County crash, authorities say
KOLN - Nebraska
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June 30, 2025
PRAGUE, Neb. (WOWT) - One person was killed and two more were sent to the hospital after a crash near Prague Sunday afternoon. A release from the Saunders County Sheriff’s Office says the crash happened on Highway 79 just north of County Road T...
Czechia drops surgery requirement in landmark move for trans rights
Expats.cz
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June 27, 2025
Those guidelines, published in the Health Ministry Bulletin, outline the transition process, including registry office procedures, optional medical treatments, and naming requirements. During the process, individuals are not required to adopt a...
Covid vaccine lowered chances of conception, study of 1.3million women finds
The Conservative Woman
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July 1, 2025
THE rate of successful conception – a pregnancy leading to live birth nine months later – for women who received the covid vaccine was ‘substantially lower’ than for unvaccinated women, according to a new peer-reviewed study. Brian Hooker, chief...
Czech Republic Will No Longer Require Castration As Condition For Change In Legal Gender
Brno Daily
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June 26, 2025
Surgery or hormone treatment will no longer be a requirement for those seeking to legally change their gender in the Czech Republic as the Ministry of Health has issued a relevant methodology in response to last year’s ruling by the Constitutional...
11 charged in Russia-based plan to defraud US health care of $10.6 bn
The Peninsula
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June 28, 2025
New York: US federal prosecutors charged 11 people Friday in a Russia-based scheme to bilk Medicare -- the American health insurance program for the elderly and disabled -- out of $10.6 billion through fraudulent billing for expensive medical...
Czechs drop surgery requirement for gender change
KFGO - North Dakota
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June 26, 2025
PRAGUE (Reuters) -Czech transgender people will no longer be required to undergo a surgery but will need to be diagnosed as transsexual by specialist doctors and complete observation lasting usually six to 12 months to complete their transition,...
Czechia Drops Medical Requirements for Legal Gender Change
Prague Morning
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June 26, 2025
The Czech Republic will remove mandatory medical treatments from the legal gender-change process starting this July. Trans individuals will no longer be required to undergo hormone therapy or gender-affirming surgery to change their registered...
Wayne L. Czechowski | Navy veteran
Walton Tribune - Georgia
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Wayne L. Czechowski (1947-2025), husband, father, friend, entrepreneur, businessman, passed away June 23, 2025. Always a businessman, he started and ran three glass companies of his own and held the position CEO of Vega Glass GA, Downey Glass CA,...
Datalogic and B. Braun enable safer oncology treatment with Memor™ 17 Healthcare Certification for OncoSafety Remote Control®
Manufacturing Tomorrow
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Bologna, June 12th, 2025. Datalogic, a global leader in the automatic data capture and factory automation markets, is proud to announce the certification of the Memor 17 Healthcare mobile computer with OncoSafety Remote Control®, the advanced...
Czech Republic Is Ready To Raise Defence Spending To 5% of GDP, Says Fiala
Brno Daily
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June 25, 2025
The Czech Republic is ready for an increase in defence spending to 5% of gross domestic product (GDP), Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS) told reporters after a government meeting today. He said he expected the increase to be adopted at the North...
What Do Other Czechs Think About Brno? And Does Brno Agree?
Brno Daily
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June 27, 2025
It is widely known what people in Prague think about Brno, but what do people in Liberec, Třeboň and Ostrava think? And most importantly, what do people who live here think? The City of Brno has been asking these questions regularly for several...