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10/02/2008
Three men and three women from the Czech town of Ústí nad Labem have received suspended sentences after being convicted of trafficking children to Germany for sexual purposes between 1995 and 1998. The sentences were lenient because of the number of years which had passed since the crimes were committed, according to Czech senator Kamila Krejcarová. The crimes in question saw the convicted offering both their own children and those of their relatives to paedophiles in Germany. In one case, a child as young as seven was offered.
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10/02/2008
The Health Ministry is debating proposals which would see children being able to receive early vaccinations against meningitis. The plans would see the vaccinations paid for by general health insurance, and is designed to prevent wider outbreaks of illnesses among children. Another proposal would see the mandatory vaccination of children aged 11 against whooping cough.
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10/02/2008
Members of parliament have been engaged in a heated discussion over whether municipal police officers should have the right to measure the speed of passing cars with mobile radars. The coalition, particularly the Transport and Interior ministries want to give municipal police this right, and claim that this change is a mere technical amendment in the existing laws. However, the opposition is arguing that such a change would be political and thus require the passage of new laws – they also argue that only state police should have the ability to use mobile radars and that in the past municipal police and local authorities ended up setting arbitrary speed limits in Czech municipalities. These accusations have been disputed by the government.
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10/02/2008
The Czech president Václav Klaus, who is currently in the US promoting his anti-global warming book, has run into some problems with attendance, the US publication Wilamette Weekly reports. On Wednesday, the president was in Portland Oregon, and according to the publication, the President’s press conference was met with very little interest with only three reporters in attendance. Following the press conference, Mr Klaus attended a summit designed to stem the perceived excessive panic about climate change where he attacked former US Vice President Al Gore for his views on climate change.
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10/02/2008
The US president George W. Bush signed a 2009 budget law Wednesday that sees $465,8 million allotted to the anti-ballistic-missile program to, key components of which will be located in Poland and the Czech Republic. The monies allotted to the European arm of the project are $246.3 million lower than were requested by the president. The US congress has stipulated that certain funding for the rockets that form a part of this system will only be available after further testing proves the system’s viability. As currently scheduled, the system will be functional by 2013.
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10/02/2008
The head of the Czech Doctor’s Association Milan Kubek has warned that a lack of qualified doctors in a hospital in the town of Havířov na Karvinsku is threatening that hospital’s ability to provide care for its patients. He also added that his organisation can no longer guarantee the quality of care in the hospital. In comments reported by the Czech News Agency ČTK, Mr Kubek warned that in the last year the number of available qualified doctors had fallen sharply in the hospital and that it now faced a serious crisis, brought on in his view by mismanagement over a long period. The hospital in Havířov na Karvinsku caters to a population of 120,000 people.
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10/01/2008
Seven Czech soldiers were injured in the Afghan province Logar at mid-day Wednesday when terrorists opened rocket fire on a Czech convoy returning to base. None of the soldiers are reported to be in critical condition. The Shank base which is home to the Czech Provincial Reconstruction Team in Logar has come under fire three times in the past ten days. Three Czech soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan in the past two years. Close to 400 Czech troops currently operate in the country, half of them are part of the provincial reconstruction team building hospitals, schools and waterworks in Logar.
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10/01/2008
The Czech government on Wednesday approved a plan which should see more Czech troops deployed in foreign missions in 2009. While the Czech Republic is gradually withdrawing its troops from Iraq, it plans to strengthen its military presence in Kosovo and Afghanistan. The now 200-strong reconstruction team in Logar is to have 330 members next year. Under the plan, for which the Defense Ministry has earmarked 24 billion crowns, the number of Czech soldiers serving in foreign missions should rise from the present 900 to 1386. The plan still needs to be approved by both houses of Parliament.
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10/01/2008
Several hundred police officers, firefighters and customs employees demonstrated outside the Interior Ministry on Wednesday in support of higher wages. The unions are demanding a 4 percent increase in salaries next year and want the ministry to approve new base pay charts for 2010 which would do away with the existing discrepancy in wages between officers serving in different parts of the country. The Interior Ministry says Wednesday’s protest action was unwarranted since a solution had been found to most of the problems outlined.
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10/01/2008
The government has earmarked several million crowns to help the thousands of glassmakers who have found themselves out of work after their companies were forced out of business. Bohemia Crystalex Trading, the country’s largest glass producer, said on Tuesday it was forced to close down two big glassworks in Svetlá and Poděbrady, which together employ 1,800 people. The aid money is to be used for re-qualification and in support of new job opportunities.
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