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07/31/2010
A bank in the South Moravian town of Mikulov was robbed on Friday afternoon. Police are now searching for the bank robber, who left the scene of the crime on his bicycle, according to witnesses who saw him escape. An employee of the bank said that the man was armed but did not use his weapon during the hold-up. The exact amount of money he has stolen is unknown at this point.
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07/31/2010
Residents of a tower block building in the city of Brno had to evacuate their homes due to a house fire on the night from Friday to Saturday. Building materials in front of the tower block went ablaze; its facade subsequently caught fire. Fire fighters and police cleared the building, attempts to remove remaining pieces of burning isolation material failed. Eventually, they were able to get the fire under control and residents were able to return to their apartments.
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07/31/2010
The Czech fisherman Jakub Vágner appeared on the popular American television show The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Friday night. His appearance came ahead of the US premiere of a new National Geographic series, Fish Warrior, in which he travels to South America and Africa to catch huge species of fish. The hardcore fisherman, who is the son of well-known musician Karl Vágner, told TV host Jay Leno that he did not know who he was prior to being invited to appear on the show. Jay Leno’s program has an average four million nightly viewers in the US.
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07/31/2010
There was disappointment for Petr Svoboda in the men’s 110 meters hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona, after the Czech medal hopeful tripped at the seventh hurdle and ended up finishing sixth in Friday’s final. Meanwhile, Zuzana Hejnová missed out on a bronze medal at the finish of the women’s 400 meters hurdles. Of the other Czechs in action on Friday, pole vaulter Jiřina Ptáčníková came fifth, as did Denisa Rosolová in the 400 meters, while Lenka Masná came sixth in the 800 meters.
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07/30/2010
An "early warning centre" that the US is aiming to build on Czech territory would be part of a NATO missile defence system, Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas said on Friday. Washington and Prague are discussing the creation of such a facility, which Mr Nečas said would be run by Czechs, doing away with the need for a bilateral treaty. He said it would collate satellite information about rockets aimed at NATO states, and would be more technical and administrative than military in nature. Mr Nečas said the US was proposing to put around USD 2 million into the project in 2011 and 2012.
President Barack Obama last year announced the dropping of plans for an American anti-missile shield that would have included a radar base in the Czech Republic.
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07/30/2010
The European Court of Justice has ruled that Anheuser-Busch InBev may not register “Budweiser” as an EU-wide trademark, ending a long legal dispute with the Czech state-owned brewer Budějovický Budvar. Anheuser-Busch applied for trademark registration in the EU in 1996, but was opposed by Budvar, which already had protection for its own Budweiser beer in Germany and Austria. Thursday’s ruling upheld a previous decision by Europe’s second highest court last year. It does not prevent Anheuser-Busch from registering the name Budweiser in individual markets. The two sides have been fighting over the brand name in courts around the world for decades.
Budweiser means from Budweis, the German name for the city of České Budějovicke, which has a brewing tradition stretching back to the 13th century. Anheuser-Busch began making its own Budweiser in 1876.
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07/30/2010
The authorities in Brno are to leave a controversial communist symbol on a monument after preservationists objected to its removal. Some local people had voiced opposition to a hammer and sickle on a monument in the city’s Královo Pole district in honour of the Red Army soldiers who liberated the region at the end of the war, and earlier this year councillors voted to remove it. However, the National Monuments Institute has recommended that the communist symbol remain in place, and the Brno Town Hall is expected to respect that suggestion.
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07/30/2010
A meeting of the Czech government planned for next Wednesday will be interrupted for three and a half hours because of the funeral of Milan Paumer, a member of a controversial group who shot their way across the Iron Curtain in the 1950s. It is not clear whether any cabinet members will attend the ceremony in Poděbrady, but both Prime Minister Petr Nečas and Defence Minister Alexandr Vondra have said they may do so. Mr Paumer was part of what became known as the Mašín group after the two brothers that led it. Some regard them as heroes for fighting the Communists, though others condemn them for killing a number of people.
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07/30/2010
Half of Czech customers now buy electronic goods on the internet, suggests a report by the Incoma GfK market research agency. Of those surveyed, 35 percent said they had bought computers and accessories online in the previous 12-month period, 20 percent had bought household appliances, and 14 percent had bought other consumer electronics. An industry body said that while Czechs had spent an estimated CZK 22 billion shopping online in 2008, last year that figure had risen to CZK 26 or 27 billion.
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07/30/2010
An outbreak of dysentery has been reported in České Budějovicke. Around 50 people probably caught the intestinal disorder from a batch of potato salad at a canteen in the city last Friday, local hygiene officials said. An epidemiologist told reporters it was the biggest single incidence of dysentery in the city in some years, though it did not amount to an epidemic. Infected persons have been forced to stay off work and their children have been forbidden from going to traditional summer camps.
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