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06/30/2010
The Ostrava regional court has postponed until September 6 the trial of four alleged neo-Nazis accused of an arson attack which nearly killed a young Roma girl and left her scarred for life. The trial of the four men, who could face life sentences for the crime, has been running since May. The attack happened in April 2009 when three Molotov cocktails were thrown into the house of a Roma family at Vítkov near Opava in the far east of the country. The prosecution says the attacks were motivated by the accused’s extremist right-wing views and wish to mark the 120th anniversary of the birth of Adolf Hitler. A recording between two of the accused was offered as evidence at the start of this week by the prosecution. On the tape, one said that he regretted they had not imitated an attack in Hungary where two members of a Roma family were shot when they fled their firebombed home.
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06/30/2010
Czech tennis player Tomáš Berdych booked a place in the last four of the Wimbledon Men’s singles after beating top seed and title holder Roger Federer. The 12th seeded Czech won 6:4, 3:6, 6:1, 6:4. The win is the first time he had got so far at Wimbledon but follows up from a semi-finals place at the French Open, his greatest success to date at a Grand Slam tournament. Berdych had faced Federer 10 times on all surfaces with the Swiss winning eight of those past confrontations. In the next round Berdych faces the Serbian number three seed, Novak Djokovice.
Meanwhile, tennis player Petra Kvitová sensationally reached the women’s semi-finals at Wimbledon on Tuesday. Kvitová, who is 20, saved five match points on her way to a 4:6 7:6 8:6 victory over Kaia Kanepi of Estonia.
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06/29/2010
President Barack Obama has nominated his advisor Norman Eisen for the post of US ambassador to Prague. The position has been unfilled for nearly a year and a half. Mr Eisen, a lawyer by profession, is a founding member of the NGO Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, and advised the American president on issues such as the regulation of lobbying. His appointment has to be approved by the American Senate. Mr Eisen’s mother was born in the former Czechoslovakia.
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06/29/2010
Civic Democrats leader Petr Nečas has rejected a demand from Public Affairs that party chairman Radek John become interior minister. The two parties are in talks with TOP 09 on forming a government coalition. Mr Nečas said it would be “problematic” if the portfolio was held by a party linked to a large private security firm, ABL. For their part, Public Affairs insist on holding the post of interior minister in a new 15-member cabinet.
Talks on forming a new government have run into difficulties over the filling of ministerial positions, how to combat corruption and other issues. The three parties say they aim to sign a coalition agreement by the end of the first week of July. Between them they would have 118 seats in the 200-seat Chamber of Deputies.
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06/29/2010
A Prague court has ordered the Czech Interior Ministry to pay compensation to two victims of police brutality. Pavel Kuchář will receive CZK 60,000 and Ondřej Holous CZK 40,000 after police officers were ruled to have used excessive force against them during an operation aimed at breaking up a free techno music festival in 2005. The two, who were appealing against a previous ruling in which they got less compensation, told the court that the police had beaten them up and then aimed tear gas at them after they had been restrained. The police’s response to the unauthorised Czechtek festival provoked a heated debate at the time.
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06/29/2010
Investigators say a train that crashed in Ústí nad Labem on Monday killing its driver was travelling at 108 kilometres per hour, over twice the permitted speed of 50 kilometres per hour. However, a spokesperson for Czech Railways said it was not possible to rule out a technical fault. Eleven people were injured when the inter city train was derailed and crashed into a wall in the north Bohemian town.
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06/29/2010
Pope Benedict XVI has presented the head of the Roman Catholic church, Archbishop Dominik Duka, with a pallium, a woollen cloak that symbolises the jurisdiction delegated to him by the Vatican. The Czech cleric took possession of the vestment in Rome on Tuesday. A former bishop of Hradec Kralové, he replaced Miloslav Vlk as Prague archbishop in April.
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06/29/2010
Former Czech president Václav Havel is to begin filming an adaptation of his play Leaving on Thursday, the newspaper Lidové noviny reported. Shooting will take place over two months in the east Bohemian town of Česká Skalice. Mr Havel is making his debut as a film director at the age of 73. Leaving, which was first performed on stage in 2008, concerns a chancellor who quits power and enters the political wilderness.
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06/29/2010
Czech President Vaclav Klaus has appointed Kamil Janáček to the board of the Czech National Bank. Mr Janáček is an economics professor and the chief economist of Komerční banka. At the same time, Mr Klaus promoted Vladimír Tomšík to vice-governor, as a replacement for Miroslav Singer, who was recently appointed central bank governor following the departure of Zdeněk Tůma.
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06/29/2010
Over 60 percent of the fruit and vegetables sold in the Czech Republic are imported, and that share of the market continues to grow, the head of the Czech vegetable growers organisation said on Tuesday. Jaroslav Zeman said some types of imported greens on Czech shop shelves could be grown in the Czech Republic, describing the battle against products from other countries as the biggest problem facing his industry. The Netherlands is the most common country of origin, with tomatoes the most commonly imported item in this area, he said.
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