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09/29/2010
A Prague court has ordered the Czech Interior Ministry to delete the name of Czech born opera singer Sona Červená from its list of communist secret police agents and collaborators. The world-renowned mezzo soprano sued the interior ministry over the matter, saying that while she had repeatedly been questioned and harassed by the communist secret police before escaping from the country in the 1960s she had never signed any document pledging collaboration or cooperated with them in any way. Mrs. Červená, who is 83, returned to her homeland soon after the fall of communism. She was recently made an honorary member of Prague's State Opera Theatre.
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09/29/2010
Two Czech students, Miroslav Rapčák and David Pegřímek, have won the prestigious main prize in this year’s European Union Contest for Young Scientists in Lisbon. The students competed in the physics category and their work was based on a computer simulation of carbon dioxide molecule clusters. On a practical level, their conclusions could help in the process of storing carbon dioxide on the ocean-floor as a means of protecting the environment. Rapčák and Pegřímek, who are from a secondary school in Orlová, north Moravia, also won the Swedish Academy’s prize for best student work.
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09/29/2010
A fire broke out on an express train from Prague to České Budějovice on Wednesday morning completely destroying a carriage, but all passengers escaped unharmed. The fire broke out in the last carriage most likely due to a faulty electricity circuit. All twenty passengers disembarked safely and the carriage was disconnected from the rest of the train. Despite the fact that fire fighters arrived within minutes the carriage was completely gutted, causing damage estimated at half a million crowns.
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09/29/2010
A public opinion survey indicates a very low turnout in October’s local and senate elections. Only 35 percent of respondents said they fully intend to vote. Twenty-five percent said they were considering going to the polls and the remainder said they had little or no intention of participating. Local elections and elections to a third of the Senate are to take place on October 15-16.
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09/29/2010
Taxi drivers say they are suffering losses from the extended weekend service of the Prague metro. Since the beginning of September the metro runs an extra hour past midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, giving people out on the town an opportunity to stay out longer without having to order a taxi home. The metro’s management has extended the service on a temporary basis and is to review the decision at the end of the year. If there is sufficient interest the extra hour of service will be retained.
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09/29/2010
The Czech Republic have been beaten by Spain in the last 16 group stage of the women’s basketball world championships. As in previous matches in the tournament the Czechs flagged towards the end of Tuesday evening’s game in Brno, eventually losing 57:77. That result guarantees the Spaniards a place in the quarter-finals, though the hosts will have to beat Brazil on Wednesday to be sure of progressing.
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09/29/2010
Galatasaray's injured striker Milan Baroš will not be fit in time to face Scotland in the Czech Republic's Euro 2012 qualifier in Prague on October 8, Czech coach Michal Bílek said Wednesday. Baroš limped off the pitch with a torn thigh muscle after scoring a hat trick against Buyuksehir in the Turkish league game on Sunday. Doctors say he might be out for two or three weeks.
Bílek, whose team lost 0:1 at home to Lithuania in the Group I opener, selected two newcomers: Sparta Prague's 18-year-old striker Vaclav Kadlec, and Milan Petržela, a midfielder with Czech top-flight leaders Viktoria Pilsen.
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09/28/2010
A pilgrimage walk and mass have been held in the town of Stará Boleslav to mark the anniversary of the murder of the patron saint of the Czech Republic St Václav, or Wenceslas, in the year 935. The Czech president, Václav Klaus, was among the 700 or so people who took part, with turnout lower than usual due to wet weather. In Prague there will be a rare screening of a restored 1930 silent film about St Wenceslas at the city’s Rudolfinum. Other events have been held elsewhere around the country on Tuesday, which is the day of Czech statehood and a national holiday.
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09/28/2010
Rivers have been rising in north, central and eastern Bohemia after days of heavy rainfall. The highest level of flood alert is in effect in several places, while two dozen people were evacuated from their homes in Višňov in north Bohemia. A benefit event to raise money for schools damaged in nearby Frýdlant in flooding in the area at the start of August was called off. Forecasters say it should rain every day for the next week.
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09/28/2010
The Czech Republic will pull all of its soldiers out of Kosovo next summer, unless the security situation deteriorates, the Czech defence minister, Alexandr Vondra, said during a visit to a Czech base there on Monday. Mr Vondra said numbers were already being reduced significantly, with 270 departing in October, leaving less than 100 Czech soldiers in Kosovo. At the same time as the mission in the former province of Serbia is winding down, the Czech government is planning to beef up the country’s military presence in Afghanistan by nearly a third.
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