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10/16/2010
Nearly 50 percent of Czechs aged 15 to 18 smoke, and their numbers have been steadily rising, the news agency ČTK reported on Saturday. There are around 250,000 underage smokers in the Czech Republic; nine of out ten smokers take up the habit before they turn 18. An anti-smoking activist, Eva Králíková said five years ago, more boys smoked than girls, whereas now the trend has reversed.
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10/16/2010
A 33-year-old man was shot in both legs at a Prague club in the early hours of Saturday, a spokesman for the Prague police said. The man, a member of the security staff at the club, got into an argument with a visitor man who took out a gun and shot him in the calves. The injured man was taken into hospital where he underwent an operation. The police have not yet arrested the shooter but said they knew his identity.
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10/16/2010
Eight people were injured by a loose metal plate in a water park outside the Czech capital on Saturday. The accident happened when a metal plate on the bottom of a water slide got loose, causing cuts and bruises to people who were on the slide at the time. An eight-year-old girl had a dislocated shoulder; she and four other people were taken to hospital. The police launched an investigation of the accident.
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10/16/2010
The Czech basketball club Nymburk beat Aleksandrovac, from Serbia, 70:65 in the Adriatic League on Saturday. The Czechs could have won with a higher difference; they were ahead by 21 points in the third quarter but a series of unforced errors let the Serbs come back into the game. The game was Nymburk’s third win in the Adriatic League.
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10/15/2010
Polling stations opened on Friday afternoon across the Czech Republic for people to vote in municipal and Senate elections. One third of the Czech Senate’s 81 seats are being contested, along with positions on municipal councils. This election sees a record number of candidates in both areas, with 226,000 people vying for municipal posts (with three to four candidates per post) and 227 candidates competing for 27 Senate seats. Polls are open from 2:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. and on Saturday from 8:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. A second round of voting in the Senate elections will take place next weekend.
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10/15/2010
In related news, Czech President Václav Klaus, who cast his ballot in the local elections in Prague on Friday, called on Czech voters to come out to polling stations and vote. Mr Klaus said the election will show whether people still support the new parties that got seats in the lower house of Parliament in May’s general elections. The Czech President told reporters he did not use the option of preferential votes on his ballots; he said he believed “serious parties” should get the chance to run the city, rather than “instant”, inexperienced candidates.
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10/15/2010
The Czech Republic might block a trade agreement between the European Union and Canada over visas re-imposed by Ottawa on Czech citizens, the Czech ambassador to the EU, Milena Vicenová, told Czech Radio on Friday. Ms Vicenová said that Prague is considering rejecting the agreement which is being negotiated; the deal should facilitate trade between the EU and Canada, and is expected to yield billions of euros. The agreement has to be approved by the parliaments of all EU member states; Ms Vicenová said if Canada does not change its position on the visa issue, Czech lawmakers might reject the treaty.
Prague has been pushing for the abolition of Canadian visas for Czech citizens ever since they were re-imposed in July 2009, following a wave of asylum applications, many of them from Romanies.
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10/15/2010
Between January and September this year, 543 people were killed on Czech roads, which is the lowest number since the fall of communism, the police headquarters said on Friday. Compared to the same period last year, 59 fewer people died in road crashes. However, the number of traffic accidents rose to just over 55,000 in the first nine months of this year. Drivers under the influence caused over 3,700 accidents, in which 66 people died. So far, the worst month this year was July with 104 victims. The head of the Czech traffic police, Leoš Tržil, however warned of excessive optimism, saying the statistics could significantly worsen before the year’s end.
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10/15/2010
The police search for a nine-year-old girl who had gone missing in the Prague district of Troja went nation-wide on Friday. The girl was last seen leaving a group of friends after school on Wednesday and did not return home. A police dog found her bag and a bottle near an area of garden cottages near the Kobylisy metro station on the route to her house. Mounted units and a helicopter with thermo-vision are also involved in the search. A police spokeswoman said on Friday the search would continue until the case is cleared.
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10/15/2010
The Czech Republic and France would like to cooperate on energy and energy security issues. The countries will form a working group in which they will work in preparation for next year’s EU summit on energy, Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg told reporters on Friday after meeting the French secretary of state for European affairs, Pierre Lellouche, in Prague. The working group should focus on connecting Europe’s energy networks, as well as on gas and oil supplies, said Mr Schwarzenberg. The French official also expressed interest in the completion of the Czech Temelín nuclear plant; the French company Areva is one of the bidders in the tender.
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