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01/23/2010
An eighteen-year-old driver sustained fatal injuries in a car crash near Jihlava on Saturday following a chase with traffic police. The officers say they saw the young man get into his car showing clear signs of intoxication. When they approached him he sped off and in the chase that followed he hit a snow drift, lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a tree. He died of his injuries several hours after being transported to hospital. The incident is being investigated.
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01/23/2010
The police are searching for three young men who are believed to have started a fire on a Prague bus shortly before midnight on Friday. The bus was carrying passengers when the fire broke out in its rear end. The driver immediately opened the doors for evacuation and in the scurry the youths believed to be responsible disappeared. The bus was completely destroyed in the blaze, but no one was injured. The police are questioning witnesses and using Prague’s camera system to trace the youths who are believed to have started the fire by setting off fireworks inside the bus.
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01/23/2010
Che Guevara, one of the leaders of the Cuban revolution, spent five months in hiding under a false identity in communist Czechoslovakia in 1966, the Mlada fronta Dnes daily reported on Friday, following archive research. Che Guevara is believed to have spent the time in the village of Ladvi, 25 km south-east of Prague. According to verbal accounts he lived there with friends and his secret-agent girlfriend Tamara Bunke. The Cuban revolutionary allegedly departed from Czechoslovakia in July of 1966, using a false Uruguayan passport. He was killed a year later, when he led a rebellion in Bolivia.
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01/23/2010
Czech midfielder Lukas Mareček is transferring from Czech League´s Brno to Anderlecht Brussels, raising the number of Czechs in the team to four, Pavel Zika from the Sport Invest company told CTK news agency. He said the transfer would be definitively sealed next week when Mareček, 19, undergoes health tests. The three Czechs whom Mareček will join in Anderlecht Brussels are goalie Daniel Zitka, who has been playing for the club for eight years, midfielder Jan Polák, who has been with Anderlecht for three years and is expected to return to the pitch after a knee surgery he underwent last autumn, and defender Ondřej Mazuch, Mareček´s fellow player in the Czech under 21 team.
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01/22/2010
Polish President Lech Kaczynski discussed the European Union, bilateral relations and the global financial crisis with Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer in Prague on Friday. At the start of a two-day visit, Mr. Kaczynski had held talks with Czech President Václav Klaus on Thursday. The two heads of state criticized the EU’s response to the earthquake in Haiti as not proactive enough, while Mr Klaus presented his counterpart with the highest Czech honor, the Order of the White Lion. Mr. Kaczynski, meanwhile, gave Poland’s Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit to Czech Minister of Culture Václav Riedlbauch. The Polish president’s final official meeting was with Prague mayor Pavel Bém, who gave him a symbolic key to the city on Friday afternoon.
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01/22/2010
The Czech Republic has become the first of the 27 member states of the EU to hold an official event to launch the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. The European Social Affairs Commissioner Vladimir Špidla and the Czech Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Petr Šimerka attended Friday’s launch in Prague. According to data from the European statistics office Eurostat, 17 percent of the EU’s population is living in poverty.
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01/22/2010
According to data published by the Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, Czech women visit doctors considerably more often than men. The study, which is based on a population sample of over 2000 people, suggests that Czech women visit general practitioners and dentists one and a half times as often as men. As far as visits to specialists are concerned, the gap is even more pronounced: women see specialists more than twice as often as men do. Mortality rates for cancer, heart attacks, and strokes are higher for Czech men than for Czech women.
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01/22/2010
Eight Czech citizens have been found guilty by a court in Strasbourg of aggravated procuring. The eight, who were operating out of France, received jail terms of between one and eight years. Further details regarding the case are not known, the Czech News Agency reported. In March of last year, a similar case made headlines. A former Czech model and a French photographer were suspected of operating a crime ring involved in trafficking high-end prostitutes. The case is still being investigated. French police regularly look into cases of prostitutes being trafficked to France from Eastern European countries.
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01/22/2010
The Minister for Human Rights and Minorities Michael Kocáb has suggested updating the Czech labor law to crack down on employers who don’t respect the privacy of their employees. The new law would make it possible for inspectors of the Ministry of Labor to search companies for hidden cameras and spying software installed on employee’s computers. In addition, the ministry could fine employers if they breach their employees’ privacy. While unwarranted spying on employees is already banned by current laws, some employers take advantage of their authority to spy on their staff.
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01/22/2010
The Vinselekt Michlovský in Moravia was the biggest winner at the Prague Wine Trophy awards, where it picked up 11 medals. The competition, which organizers say is the biggest of its kind in the Czech Republic, gave out over 300 medals; over 1000 wines were submitted to the competition this year. Awards were handed out on Friday afternoon, at a tasting gala at Prague’s Břevnov monastery. The competition is one of many wine-related events happening during the Prague Wine Week, which is taking place for the second time this year.
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