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08/03/2010
Poland and the Czech Republic have agreed to share embassies in a number of countries where they currently lack the means to maintain separate missions. Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, who met with his Polish counterpart Radoslaw Sikorski in Warsaw on Monday, said the two neighbours had agreed to debate the possibilities with other members of the Visegrad group who are also having to close down their embassies and consulates for economic reasons. It was agreed that at least one Visegrad group state – meaning the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia – should retain its embassy in all important destinations, allowing the three remaining states to open an office on the premises.
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08/03/2010
The phenomenal Spanish guitarist Paco de Lucia, will perform to a packed house at Prague’s Obecní dům on Tuesday evening. He will appear on stage with a six-member accompanying group, including singer Duquende and virtuoso dancer Farruco, the grandson of Romany dancer El Farruco, the founder of the legendary Andalusia dancing family. Paco de Lucia last performed in the Czech capital in 2207.
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08/03/2010
The former world heavy weight boxing champion Mike Tyson is to visit Prague in October, the CTK news agency reports. The 44-year-old boxer, who ended his professional career five years ago, will visit Prague within a European tour which includes stops in Vienna, Munich, St Petersburg and Belgrade. His agenda in Prague features meetings with sponsors, a charity event at a children’s hospital and a training session with children.
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08/03/2010
A black-and-white ruffed lemur escaped from his summer enclosure at Ostrava zoo on Tuesday morning. The lemur was sighted at several locations but all efforts to re-capture him have so far failed. The zoo’s management has asked the public for assistance saying the animal, which resembles a large black and white cat rather than a monkey, may be tempted with fruit. On ascertaining his whereabouts people should call the zoo and not try to capture him by themselves.
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08/02/2010
The government-run Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes which in April published a list of spies from the communist era inadvertently included the names of several people who allegedly still work for military intelligence, among them a number of agents still active abroad, the daily Mladá fronta Dnes reported on Monday. The paper said the agents in question, whose names were online for several weeks, may now face a serious threat to their lives and safety. A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said that while the military intelligence considered the publication problematic, a risk for the agency as such was unlikely. The security and defence committee of the Czech Parliament’s lower house is set to debate the issue.
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08/02/2010
In related new, the Czech Military Intelligence Service said on Monday that among the names of communist spies which appeared online were no current members of the service. The publishing of the list of communist era spies by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes did not jeopardize the activities of military intelligence, the lives of its agents or the security of the Czech Republic, according to the Czech Military Intelligence Service.
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08/02/2010
The Czech charity People in Need launched on Monday a fundraising campaign to help the victims of floods in Pakistan. The NGO is sending two coordinators to the affected area, and is planning to use the collected funds to provide basic food and water supplies to survivors. The charity released 500,000 crowns, or more than 26,000 US dollars, for immediate assistance. The International Committee of the Red Cross said on Monday the floods affected around 2.5 million Pakistanis; some 1,100 people were killed while another 27,000 are still cut off by the floods.
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08/02/2010
The deficit of the state budget decreased to 69 billion crowns, or more than 3.6 billion US dollars, by the end of July, the Czech Finance Ministry said on Monday. The deficit dropped from 75.7 billion crowns registered in June. Last July, the deficit reached 76.2 billion crowns. The state budget for the whole of 2010 has been approved with a deficit of 162.9 billion crowns. The ministry said lower capital expenditures of the state in 2010 were a major factor behind the decrease.
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08/02/2010
Health authorities have been unable to establish the source of a dysentery outbreak in southern Bohemia. Thirty people have fallen ill with the infectious disease in the city of České Budějovice in the course of last week, while another 40 manifested clinical symptoms. All of them had potato salad in one of the city restaurants on July 23; however, the health authorities’ investigation in the restaurant and among its staff produced negative results. On Friday and Saturday, 19 people were treated in hospital in České Budějovice, with six of them hospitalized at the hospital’s infectious diseases department. All of them were released before the end of the weekend.
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08/02/2010
The Václav Havel Library, which was established in 2004 to preserve the works and legacy of the former Czech president Václav Havel, will move to a prestigious location in Prague. The head of the library’s board of directors, Czech multi-billionaire Zdeněk Bakala, purchased a house in Loretánské náměstí, near Prague Castle; the library will rent the premises from him. The library’s director, Martin C. Putna, said the Václav Havel Library should open at its new location in around 18 months’ time.
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