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Red Deer Rebels defenceman Jiri Kamas wants to represent Czechia when the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship comes to Alberta this winter. “I’m looking forward to that tournament. Hopefully I’ll be selected. I’ve got to work hard and give my best every day,” Kamas said following a team practice at the Marchant Crane Centrium on Thursday, Oct. 15.

Czechia is set to host the U-18 World Championships this January, looking to build on their bronze medal from last year while showcasing the next wave of global talent. The U-18 World Championships are heading back to the location of the 2025 World Championship tournament dropping the puck in Czechia this January. The eight-nation event will take place from January 8-16, 2027 at RT Torax Arena in Ostrava-Poruba, Czechia. "We would like to build on the successful women's championship in České Budějovice last year," says Lucie Valentová, general secretary of the IIHF Women's U-18 World Championship in a translated statement. "One of the main goals is to promote women's hockey in general and attract new young players to hockey. It will also be a huge motivation for the girls themselves to fight for a medal in front of their home audience. At the same time, Ostrava is known for having great fans, and we would like to confirm and show that at the IIHF Women's Under-18 Ice Hockey World Championship," Czechia enters as the reigning U-18 World Championship bronze medalists.

Israeli settlers have attacked European diplomats, including a French mayor, near the Palestinian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank. The delegation was visiting Palestinian olive harvesters on Saturday when the Israeli attackers confronted the group. The attack comes a day after settlers assaulted a US journalist north of Ramallah. In Saturday’s incident, the settlers targeted Belgium’s consul general, French and Polish diplomats and Catholic representatives, Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said. “A French mayor was assaulted and a Belgian vehicle damaged,” Prevot said, linking the attack to what he called Israel’s “illegal settlement policy” and pledging to push for further European Union sanctions. French mayor Bernard Baudoux, who was assaulted, told the AFP news agency that the violence suggests that “there is a tolerance on the part of the Israeli government” towards settler violence. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah, said the settlers surrounded the diplomats’ vehicles, pelted them with stones and smashed their windows.