Morning News: Wednesday, August 10, 2022

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• Prague’s St Ludmila Church has gained the title basilica minor, which the Pope bestows on significant church buildings. The title basilica minor has been most often granted to pilgrimage churches, which can be recognised by the papal symbol placed on them.

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• The Czech Senate foreign committee unanimously supported Finland and Sweden’s entry into NATO on Tuesday, on the eve of the upper house’s plenary vote on the proposal. Finland and Sweden applied for NATO membership in reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine earlier this year.

• Only about 80 hectares have not yet been extinguished in the Bohemian Switzerland National park, where a big fire broke out 17 days ago. On Tuesday morning, the firefighters handed over another part of the park to its administration, namely part of the third sector lying near Vysoka Lipa, North Bohemia.