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05/31/2009
The 49th International Film Festival for Children and Youth began in Zlín, central Moravia, on Sunday. One of the world’s largest and oldest film festivals for young audiences, the event will offer more than 470 films from 55 countries. This year, the festival’s guests include the British actor Tim Curry, the Spanish actress Anna Lago and AnnaSophia Robb from the US who will present her film, Bridge to Terabithia. The Golden Slipper Award for the best film for children and youth will be presented on June 7.
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05/31/2009
Czech singer and actor Waldemar Matuška, aged 76, died on Saturday in his home in Miami, Florida. The news agency ČTK cited pneumonia and heart failure as the direct causes of death. Waldemar Matuška started his career in the early 1960s in Prague where he became a star of several small theatres. In 1962, he won the first year of a popular music competition, the Golden Nightingale. He starred in a number of films throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including the 1968 award-winning movie All My Good Countrymen. Waldemar Matuška left communist Czechoslovakia for the United States in 1986 and settled in Miami, Florida. He last visited Prague in 2007.
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05/31/2009
Slavia Prague was crowned the champions of this season’s Gambrinus liga on Saturday after a 2:2 home draw against Liberec, finishing six points ahead of city rival Sparta. Both Slavia and Sparta secured spots in the Champions League’s 3rd qualifying round. Another Prague club, Viktoria Žižkov, along with Moravia’s Tescoma Zlín, are relegated.
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05/30/2009
Cyril Svoboda has been elected leader of the Christian Democratic Party. Mr. Svoboda, former party leader and long-time minister in successive cabinets, has said he wants to restore unity and see the party do well in October’s early general elections. The party’s current leader Jiří Čunek dropped out in the first round of voting. The Czech Republic’s second oldest political party has been racked by infighting in recent months which has seen its ratings plunge. Former finance minister, Miroslav Kalousek a prominent member of the party, has announced he is leaving the Christian Democrats to form a new party.
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05/30/2009
Pope Benedict XVI will visit the Czech Republic from September 26 to 28, the Vatican said on Saturday following a meeting between the Pope and Czech President Václav Klaus. The Vatican’s press office said that following an invitation from the Czech president and the Czech Catholic bishops the Pope would visit Prague, Brno and Stará Boleslav, where he would take part in the St Wenceslas pilgrimage on September 28, a national holiday in the Czech Republic. It will be Pope Benedict's first visit to the Czech Republic since taking office.
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05/30/2009
The Special Operations Unit of the Czech military police that made headlines in mid-April by refusing to fight in the field in Afghanistan will be dissolved by June 30, according to military police chief Vladimir Lozek. An investigation into the incident reveled deep rifts within the unit over its role and a weak commander who was unable to resolve the conflicts. As a result of the scandal, military police commander Oldrich Kubát resigned in February and was replaced by Vladimir Lozek. The new military police chief has ordered an overhaul of the military police, to be completed by October of this year.
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05/30/2009
British Conservative Party leader David Cameron paid a brief visit to Prague on Saturday in a show of support for the centre-right Civic Democrats ahead of the European elections. He and Civic Democratic Party leader Mirek Topolánek said they shared a common vision of the European Union as a dynamic, flexible alliance that is capable of meeting the challenges of the present-day. The two party leaders then left for Poland to meet the leader of the Law and Justice Party in what is seen as an effort to drum up support for a newly emerging European Conservatives faction in the EP.
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05/30/2009
Police in Litvinov on Saturday detained a dozen young people who appeared at an election rally of the far-right Workers’ Party to protest against racism. According to a ctk news agency reporter the police asked them to leave and when they failed to do so they were searched, handcuffed and marched off to the nearest police station for questioning. A police spokeswoman said they had been detained for breaching the peace and trying to disrupt an election rally.
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05/30/2009
Relations between the majority population and the country’s Romany minority are perceived to be deteriorating. According to a poll conducted by the CVVM agency 85 percent of respondents –both Roma and non-Roma - said that relations were at their lowest ebb in the past decade and that coexistence was problematic. A growing number of Czech Romanies are once again seeking asylum in other states, predominantly Canada, saying that they fear for their safety amidst growing racist violence in the Czech Republic. An arson attack against a Romany family in which a two-year-old girl nearly burnt to death, has further heightened tensions.
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05/30/2009
A serious road accident involving a passenger car and a minibus near the town of Damice in western Bohemia, is reported to have killed a woman and injured 21 people, among them five children. Eyewitnesses say the driver of the passenger car failed to give the minibus right of way and in an effort to avoid a collision its driver swerved sharply, turning over into a ditch. Some of the injured are reported to be in serious condition. Police are investigating the cause of the accident.
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