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07/07/2010
The extended four-day weekend has proved to be one of the most tragic on Czech roads. Traffic police report 26 road deaths attributed to heavy traffic, the heat and drinking and driving. In one case a cyclist was killed after cycling in the opposite lane on a highway, in another a 22-year-old drunk man without a license mowed into a group of people on a bus stop. The first weekend of the school holidays was all the more tragic for the fact that ten people drowned, mostly through alcohol and irresponsible behaviour.
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07/07/2010
A bishop’s grave was raided in the central Bohemian town of Litoměřice and gold stolen, according to the news server deník.cz on Wednesday. It cited police reports Wednesday that gold was taken from the grave of |bishop Josef Koukl who died in May. The alarm was raised when someone noticed that the casket was half open.
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07/07/2010
The lower house of parliament meeting on Wednesday backed a change in the rules meaning that the prime minister or deputy prime ministers will no longer have to be present for the session to continue sitting. The change allows them to be replaced by other members of the government. During the government of Mirek Topolánek, deputy premier Martin Bursík complained he missed important international meetings because of the stipulation that he must be present in the chamber.
A ban on mobile phones being used by members of the house was also abolished. The changes were proposed by the head of the Civic Democrat group in the house, Petr Tluchoř.
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07/07/2010
Czech football player Tomáš Kalas will continue to play for Sigma Olomouc in the Gambrinus League in the upcoming season in spite of having been signed by English club Chelsea. Chelsea announced the news that it will loan the 17-year-old defender out to his old club on its website. Chelsea beat off offers from a host of other top clubs, reportedly including Bayern Munich, Arsenal, Juventus and Inter Milan to sign Kalas for around 160 million crowns. Kalas already played for Olomouc’s first team last season.
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07/07/2010
The Czech football season will kick off on Thursday for the first time with a super cup match between the league and cup champions. In this context, league leaders Sparta Prague will face cup winner Viktoria Plzeň. Although such matches have traditionally opened the season abroad, this is the first time the format has been tested in the Czech Republic. The match will take place at Sparta’s Letna stadium.
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07/06/2010
The Blanka road tunnel, which is being constructed in Prague, collapsed in two places in the early hours of Tuesday, trapping one of the workers. The excavator operator was rescued uninjured after some six hours on Tuesday morning. A spokeswoman for the Prague fire brigade said the man was taken to hospital for a check and later released. The collapses occurred in the Prague neighbourhood of Dejvice, close to the buildings of the ministries of culture and interior. The buildings were evacuated; experts are now investigating the causes of the accident and determining the level of damage sustained by nearby buildings. A spokesman for Prague city hall said the construction company was to present a report of the accident within two days.
The construction of the Blanka road tunnel, which at over 6,000 metres will be the longest in the Czech Republic, began in 2007. A year later, the tunnel collapsed under the city’s Stromovka Park, creating a large crater.
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07/06/2010
President Václav Klaus will appoint the centre-right cabinet of PM Petr Nečas next week, the online magazine reflex.cz reported on Monday, citing well informed sources from the government and the president’s office. According to the magazine, the most likely date is July 13. President Klaus appointed Civic Democrat leader Petr Nečas the country’s new prime minister on June 28. Last week, the three centre-right parties in talks on forming a coalition agreed on the make-up of the 15-member cabinet; most commentators said Mr Nečas’ party made considerable concessions to its allies – the conservative TOP 09 and the centrist Public Affairs.
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07/06/2010
Czechs mark the 595th anniversary of the death of Jan Hus, a 15th century priest, reformer and religious thinker who was burned at the stake in Constance as a heretic. July 6 is a national holiday in the Czech Republic, with religious services held around the country commemorating Jan Hus’s legacy. President Václav Klaus attended a service held in Prague’s Bethlehem Chapel, where Hus preached.
Jan Hus (John Huss) was a Catholic priest and rector of the University of Prague who was strongly influenced by the teachings of the English reformer John Wycliffe. He was excommunicated by the Catholic Church in 1411 before being condemned as a heretic and executed in Constance four years later.
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07/06/2010
The Czech Republic is among the EU countries that grant the lowest number of citizenships to the people from the third countries, according to data released by the Statistical Office of the European Commission, or Eurostat, on Monday. In 20087, Prague only granted 0.1 new citizenships to non-EU foreigners per 1,000 inhabitants, Eurostat said. The EU average figure is 1.4 citizenships per 1,000 inhabitants. In 2008, the Czech Republic granted 1200 citizenships to foreigners from third countries, a drop of nearly 50 percent compared to the previous year.
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07/06/2010
The 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival presented on Tuesday films by Iranian and Iraqi authors. The film Son of Babylon by the Iraqi director Mohamed Al-Daradj is not included in the festival’s main competition; a co-production of the UK, France, Holland, Palestine, UAE and Egypt, it tells the story of a 13-year-old boy and his grandmother following the fall of Saddam Hussein. The Iranian film There are Things You Don’t Know about a taxi driver in Tehran is by Fardin Saheb Zamani, and it does compete for the main award at Karlovy Vary.
The 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival kicked off on Friday; it welcomed the biggest star among its guest, British actor Jude Law, on Sunday. The festival goes on in the west Bohemian spa town until July 10.
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