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05/20/2010
The family of the young Roma girl who was almost killed during an arson attack on their home at Vítkov near Opava in April 2009 started to give evidence at the trial of four men accused of the attack. The grandmother of Natálka, the not yet two-year-old who was in hospital for months with severe burns, said it could clearly be seen from outside that the light in her room was on and the television switched on. She said she saw a dark vehicle leaving the scene after the attack and heard a cry "burn gypsies". One of the accused said that the attack would not have happened if they had seen movement inside the house. The mother of the young girl asked to give evidence in the absence of the defendants. The prosecution says the four who took part in the attack were members of an extreme right-wing group and intended the attack to mark the 120 years since the birth of Adolf Hitler.
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05/20/2010
Human Rights watchdog, the Czech Helsinki Committee, says that extremism and xenophobia continued to rise and the rights of the children of Roma, foreign workers and families of prisoners remained limited in the Czech Republic in 2009. This was true as regards access to education and healthcare. The findings form part of the local committee’s annual report. It also criticised the country for only paying lip service to anti-discrimination measures and failing to live up to international human rights commitments. It also highlighted the lack of provision of social housing and legal aid to the weakest members of society.
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05/20/2010
Czech President Václav Klaus drew a distinction between the way Latvia and Greece have handled their deep economic problems on a visit to the Baltic state on Thursday. While Greece faces ongoing public protests against a tough austerity programme aimed at curing its public debt, Latvia has pushed through similar measures with little reaction. The Czech head of state said the difference was that Latvia had experienced Communism. The country appreciated the advances made in the last 20 years and saw the current sacrifices as a step that had to be taken to consolidate them and then progress, he said. Latvia has been one of the worst hit EU countries with the economy shrinking 18 percent last year and unemployment climbing beyond 20 percent
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05/20/2010
The Czech upper house, the Senate, has voted for a change in the law aimed at allowing local councils greater power to prevent gaming machines being sited on their territory. The councils currently have powers to block old hand operated machines but not the new-style video terminals. The amendment, already passed in the lower house, has been subject to heavy lobbying and threats from gaming companies that they could site their operations outside the Czech Republic or start legal proceedings against the country for loss of investment.
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05/20/2010
Nicholas Winton, who saved 669, mostly Jewish children, on the eve of the outbreak WWII, has celebrated his 101th birthday. In contrast to last year, when a series of events in the Czech Republic and Britain marked his 100th birthday, the event passed quietly at his home outside London with friends. Mr. Winton arranged the evacuation of children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of war fearing what would be happen to them under the Nazis. Many of their relatives later perished in the extermination of the Jewish population. His action was only brought to public attention after several decades.
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05/20/2010
Children aged less than 10 will have to have their own travel documentation or passports from 2012 according to a change in the law passed by the Czech upper house, the Senate, on Thursday. The move will remove the possibility of young children travelling on their parents' passports. The change meets European Parliament demands aimed at curbing the possibility of children being kidnapped or victims of child trafficking. The amendment still has to be signed by the president.
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05/20/2010
Kooky, the newest film by Oscar-winning Czech director Jan Svěrák, had a successful premiere in Prague on Wednesday night. In early July, the feature film will have its international premiere at the Karlovy Vary film festival, where it will be taking part in the main competition. Kooky features puppet sequences and should be enjoyable not only to children, according to the director, who is best known for Kolja. Kooky tells the story of a boy who imagines that his favorite toy, a red teddy bear named Kooky, goes on an adventurous journey after being tossed out by the boy’s mother. The movie goes on general release in the Czech Republic on Thursday.
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05/20/2010
A Czech bid to host the ice hockey world championships in 2015 will be debated at a two-day meeting of the International Ice Hockey Federation starting on Thursday. The Czech Ice Hockey Association has fixed on 2015 because the competition is likely to be stronger than in 2014, when the Winter Olympics are also taking place. The only other candidate to host the 2015 championships is Ukraine. A factor in favour of the Czech bid is likely to be the near unblemished performance of the Czechs in hosting the 2004 World Championships.
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05/20/2010
In related news, the Czech ice hockey team played Finland on Thursday afternoon for a place in the semi-finals of the ongoing World Championships in Germany. The match started badly with the Czechs conceding a goal after 55 seconds but equalising at the start of the third period. There was no more scoring in regulation or extra time. The Czechs won 2:1 on penalties.
The Czechs had not got beyond the quarterfinal stage since 2007. The result is a revenge for the 0:2 defeat inflicted by the Finns in the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games earlier this year. The teams shared victories in their previous two encounters.
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05/19/2010
Most swollen rivers in Moravia have started going down, though complications caused by flooding remain in many areas. Only the lower part of the Morava in south Moravia continued to rise on Wednesday; its water levels are expected to start dropping on Thursday. In North Moravia, flooded soils have started moving; three houses had to be demolished as a consequence. Some of the hundreds of people evacuated earlier on Wednesday from the south Moravian town of Troubky were able to return home. Troubky was devastated by floods in 1997. Thousands of homes remain without power. Forecasters say it will continue to rain for the next few days. The floods have claimed one victim to date, a woman of 69 who drowned in her garden in Třinec on Sunday after the River Olše burst its banks.
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