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04/26/2009
Strong winds in several parts of the Czech Republic on Sunday led to fire services being called out twice as often as the annual daily average to deal with the damage. Trees and power lines were knocked down, while forecasters warned that the combination of gales and the recent dry weather could lead to an increase in the number of fires reported.
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04/26/2009
The Czech Republic’s women’s tennis team have lost to the USA in the semi-finals of the Fed Cup. The best-of-five tie in Brno went down to the last match, when Iveta Benešová and Květa Peschke were beaten 2-6 7-6 6-1 by Liezel Huber and Bethanie Mattek-Sands in the doubles. The Czech duo had been very close to victory, with match ball at 5-2 in the second set, but the Americans fought back to take the match and the whole tie. The Czechs have not reached the final of the Fed Cup in 21 years.
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04/26/2009
The Czech Republic made light work of Denmark in their first game at the ice hockey world championships in Switzerland on Saturday night, winning 5:0. While Jaromír Jágr scored a goal and added two assists, the star forward was beaten to the man of the match award by 22-year-old goaltender Jakub Štěpánek, who justified his selection by keeping a clean sheet in his first match at a world championships. He and his team-mates next line out on Monday afternoon, when they take on Norway. The Czech Republic have won the tournament on five occasions, the last coming in 2005.
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04/25/2009
A former leader of the American white supremacist organisation the Ku Klux Klan has been expelled from the Czech Republic. David Duke was arrested by Czech police shortly after arriving in Prague on Friday for denying the Holocaust in his book My Awakening. He was ordered to leave the country by midnight on Saturday. Mr Duke was brought to the Czech Republic by a member of the neo-Nazi group Národní odpor (National Resistance) and had been due to deliver lectures in Prague and Brno. Following his release from custody in the early hours of Saturday morning, a lawyer for the KKK man said she would file a complaint against the police, who she said had not followed correct procedure in the case.
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04/25/2009
A march by the Workers’ Party in Krupka, north Bohemia on Saturday afternoon passed off quite peacefully. Police prevented the far-right group from attempting to enter a local apartment complex largely populated by Romanies. Two Romanies were arrested for throwing beer glasses at the far-right demonstrators. The Workers’ Party came to national attention when they fought running battles with police who stopped them from entering a Romany neighbourhood in Litvínov in November. Last month the Supreme Administrative Court turned down a Czech government request to ban the small grouping.
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04/25/2009
The minister of the interior, Ivan Langer, says Romanies have an important role to play in the fight against far-right extremism in the Czech Republic. Speaking in the newspaper Právo, Mr Langer said a new strategy to combat extremism to be unveiled by the prime minister would emphasise the responsibility of every citizen in dealing with the problem. Having been the victims of extremism recently, Romanies should realise they have a key role in fighting it, the minister said. The subject of far-right extremists has been in the news a lot lately following neo-Nazi demonstrations and a petrol bomb attack on a Roma family’s home that left a two-year-old girl fighting for her life.
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04/25/2009
The UK-based architect Eva Jiřičná is to take over a large-scale project the late Jan Kaplický designed for the city of České Budějovice. The two-billion crown Antonín Dvořák Concert and Congress Centre was still in the planning stages when Kaplický died suddenly at the beginning of this year. The České Budějovice project has been nicknamed the stingray. It bears some resemblance to a National Library building dubbed the blob that Jan Kaplický designed for Prague; after he won the Czech Republic’s first ever international architecture tender for the library building the project was scotched by the city’s authorities.
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04/25/2009
The Czech president, Václav Klaus, will lead the European Union delegation at an EU-Japan summit in Prague on May 4 as part of the Czech presidency of the 27-member bloc. Jan Fischer, who is to be appointed head of a caretaker Czech cabinet on May 8, will attend a working lunch with the Japanese delegation. The announcement was made on the website of Mr Klaus, who is a Eurosceptic and also says mankind is not to blame for climate change. Japan is to buy Czech carbon credits under a deal signed last month.
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04/25/2009
Prague police are investigating the deaths of a number of drug addicts in the city in recent weeks. Five addicts between the ages of 20 and 30 are believed to have died in different parts of the capital in the last fortnight. A police spokesperson said they were long term users who did not appear to have overdosed.
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04/25/2009
Weather forecasters have warned that dry weather and strong winds could cause fires in several parts of the Czech Republic. The Czech Hydro-meteorological Institute issued a warning that fires could break out in eight of the country’s regions between now and Tuesday night, when expected gales should have died down.
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