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05/26/2010
Some forty members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club arrived in Prague on Wednesday, ahead of an international meeting of the controversial group to take place on Friday. Police are preparing for the arrival of more participants, some streets will be closed down on Friday. Motorcyclists will be the target of increased controls over the next few days in an effort to arrest club members who have a warrant for their arrest pending. The last Hells Angels meeting in Prague took place in 2005. The club was founded in 1948. Their primary motto is "When we do right, nobody remembers. When we do wrong, nobody forgets".
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05/26/2010
Jaromír Jagr, the Czech ice-hockey star, has pledged his support for the right-of-center Civic Democrats in the upcoming lower house elections due to take place over the weekend. On Wednesday, the leader of the party, Petr Nečas, said at a news conference that he appreciated the hockey player’s long lasting support for the Civic Democrats. He added that the party did not want to ride on the wave of Mr. Jagr’s popularity, but that rather, the hockey star’s support was a testimony to the values that the Civic Democrats promoted.
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05/26/2010
The Czech football team beat the United States 4:2 in a friendly match to end a series of defeats and record their first win under manager Michal Bílek. The Czechs went behind early on but equalized before half time before going on to win the match. Goals were scored by Sivok, Polák, Fenin and Necid. The Czech team last won in October last year during the final stages of their ill fated attempt to qualify for this year’s World Cup in South Africa. The US have qualified for the World Cup.
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05/25/2010
The Czech Foreign Ministry says it will not close any more Czech embassies, even if its funding is cut as part of efforts to reduce the budget deficit. The Czech News Agency said if the ministry’s budget is reduced it will probably be by about 2 percent. Officials say any savings would have to be made from costs and salaries, while some employees could be let go. Last month the Foreign Ministry shut down an embassy in Angola and a consulate in Montreal, while other such offices are set for closure in four other places. The minister of finance, Eduard Janota, reportedly aims to keep the budget deficit at 5.3 percent of GDP by making savings of CZK 16 billion.
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05/25/2010
The Czech Republic will focus its development aid on five countries in future, under a new plan approved by the government. Foreign Minister Jan Kohout told reporters that priority would be given to Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ethiopia, Moldova and Mongolia. Mr Kohout said the plan took into account the fact that Prague played a role in the formulation and implementation of the European Union’s development policy. It replaces a previous set of priorities approved in 2005.
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05/25/2010
The number of children who go missing in the Czech Republic every year has risen by about a third in the last decade, Lidové noviny reported. Last year over 8,500 children were reported missing, around 3,000 more than in the year 2000, the newspaper said. In most cases the missing children are aged between 15 and 18. The police said they had observed a trend of children being abducted as a result of conflict between their separated parents. Another significant group are those who abscond, sometimes repeatedly, from children’s homes. May 25 is International Missing Children’s Day.
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05/25/2010
A former executive at Galileo Real, a daughter company of the Czech Consolidation Agency, has been found guilty of embezzling CZK 500 million (UDS 23.7 million) from its accounts in 2005. A court in Prague sentenced Jan Šik to five and a half years in jail on Tuesday. An accomplice, Miloš Skořep, was found guilty of using the money for his own activities and got eight and a half years. Mr Skořep was tried in absentia; he was arrested in the United Arab Emirates last year before later being released on bail. Both men have also been ordered to return nearly CZK 100 million.
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05/25/2010
The Czech government is to impose a compulsory purchase order on land in east Bohemia in order to build a motorway. Farmer Ludmila Havránková has for 16 years been refusing to sell three hectares on which the state wants to build part of the D11 motorway near Hradec Kralové. She says she will continue her legal battle to keep the land, and a government official said it would likely take at least a year for the compulsory purchase order to be carried out.
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05/25/2010
Four far-right extremists accused of a firebomb attack on a Romany family’s home are not insane and are capable of understanding the danger of their actions, a court appointed psychiatrist said during their trial on Tuesday. He said none of them displayed signs of being psychopaths or pyromaniacs. The four face charges of racially motivated attempted murder after a petrol bomb attack in the town of Vítkov last April that left three members of a Romany family injured. The most seriously hurt was Natálie Siváková, who suffered burns on 80 percent of her body and was at one point close to death.
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05/25/2010
Fire brigades were called out more than 30 times in south Moravia on Monday night after the region was hit by a violent storm. Cellars were flooded and trees were knocked down, with fire officers having the most work to do in Brno. Water levels on the River Morava have risen and a flood warning has been issued at Lanžhot. Forecasters say the Czech Republic can expect more storms in the next day or two. Last week hundreds of people were evacuated in Moravia after strong rains caused flooding in some places. There was one death, when a woman drowned in her garden after a river burst its banks.
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