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08/06/2015
A Brno court on Thursday turned down compensation claims of 50 million crowns each from the son and mother of a Vietnamese man who was brutally beaten by police and later died of his injuries. The court ruled that the 1.0 million crowns already received by each of them was adequate. Part of the claims for higher compensation were based on the Asian tradition that the dead man would have been expected to provide for his parents in old age. The 29 year old Vietnamese man was detained by police during a raid in January 2009 in which he was apparently suspected of being a drug dealer. He died in custody a few days later from injuries received. Three police officers were later found guilty and sentenced.
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08/06/2015
Police in the German region of Saxony announced they had detained almost 60 illegal immigrants near the border town of Pirna. The immigrants appeared to have been brought into Germany from the Czech Republic in two lorries with Polish drivers. The 59 illegal immigrants, who included children, were hidden in the cargo compartment and were found in a poor state. Most of them came from Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea, and Pakistan.
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08/06/2015
The Czech trade surplus in June totaled 17.8 billion crowns, a slight improvement on the same month in 2014, the Czech Statistical Office announced on Thursday. The surplus strengthened in cars and transport machinery with a weaker impact in the traditional deficit from oil and other imported fuels thanks to lower world prices. The trade surplus in the first six months of the year now stands at almost 107 billion crowns. Exports and imports have been rising at nearly the same level this year of around 7.5 percent.
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08/06/2015
In related economic news, the statistics office announced that industrial output rose in June by 8.1 percent compared with the same month in 2014. Taking account of the extra working day this year, the increase falls to 5.5 percent when this is factored in. The value of new orders was up 10.3 percent year-on-year with higher demand coming from at home than abroad. Industrial production has climbed by 4.8 percent in the second quarter of the year compared with the 2014 performance.
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08/06/2015
On a bleak night for Czech football both Sparta Prague and Viktoria Plzeň bowed out of the Champions League during the third qualifying round. After going two goals up in the first 16 minutes, Sparta then conceded three goals and were down to 10-men at the end of the game against CSKA Moscow. They went down on aggregate 4:5 to the Russian champions. Viktoria Plzeň had high hopes of proceeding after a first leg 2:1 away win against Maccabi Tel Aviv. The match remained goalless until the 76th minute when Eran Zahavi scored from the penalty spot and he followed up with a second seven minutes later from open play.
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08/06/2015
The Czech Republic is facing another severe heatwave in the coming days, which is expected to hit the country on Thursday afternoon. Temperatures over the weekend could reach up to 39 degrees Celsius. According to the Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute, the current drought is likely to continue at least for the next two weeks. The forecasters are also warning of heightened risk of fires. If the predictions come true, this summer will be the warmest and driest since measurements have been kept.
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08/05/2015
Three people, including a Czech man, were killed in a landslide caused by a severe rainstorm near the town of San Vito di Cadore in the Italian Alps on Tuesday night. A Czech woman, who was severely injured in the incident, has been taken to hospital. The landslide swept down a mountain, which covered nearby roads and parking lots with mud and debris. The corpses of the Czech man as well as a teenage girl and another man, whose nationalities have not yet been identified, were dug out on Wednesday. According to Italian authorities, no one else is reported to be missing.
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08/05/2015
The Ministry of Interior is set to open a new refugee camp in Vyšní Lhoty in the Moravia-Silesia region on Friday, Deputy Interior Minister Jiří Nováček said on Wednesday. The facility, which had been used as a refugee camp until 2009, will have a capacity of 220. The capacity of the refugee camp in Bělá nad Sázavou in East Bohemia has recently been enlarged to 700. By the end of the year, the Czech Republic should provide altogether 1400 places for migrants. Another 300 are to be created in a former prison in Drahonice in the Louny region.
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08/05/2015
Local authorities and police in the East Bohemian city of Bělá pod Bezdězem, will be receiving information about migrants released from the nearby asylum facility. The town’s mayor Milan Lomoz made the announcement on Wednesday, saying that he wanted to limit the movement of migrants in the city and have the situation in the town under better control. The asylum facility in Bělá currently accommodates illegal migrants, mostly from Afghanistan, Syria and Iran, who were detained trying to get to Germany. The situation in the town is tense after violence broke out in the facility last week.
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08/05/2015
The number of marriages in the Czech Republic increased in 2014 for the first time since 2011, Czech Radio said on Tuesday, quoting data from the Czech Statistics Office. Nearly 46,000 couples tied the knot last year, which was 2,000 more than in 2013. Czechs are also willing to spend more on their wedding day. Nearly 50 percent of couples said they were ready to spend up to 50,000. The marriage rate had been gradually falling since 2011, hitting the bottom in 2012, with only 44,000 couples getting married that year. The current rate is still about fifty percent lower than in 1990, which saw over 90,000 weddings.
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