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11/16/2007
The health ministry issued a warning over children’s toothpastes on Friday after it was found that several brands manufactured in China contained diethylenglycol, which can affect the kidneys or nervous system. The news was revealed by Prague’s chief hygiene officer Michal Vit. Experts found the substance in 60 gram tubes of Vecernicek (tuti-fruti), Ferda (apple), and Ferda (strawberry). The company importing the product will refund consumers who bought the items. Any of the products remaining on the shelves have been ordered to be removed immediately .
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11/16/2007
Injured boxer Lukas Konecny (29) will be unable to compete in the World Boxing Organisation’s World Championship title fight in the JR (or light) middleweight category. The fight – against current champion Sergiy Dzinziruk of Ukraine - was scheduled for the end of November. Konecny suffered a rib injury in training and will be unable to return to the ring before December. The boxer expressed the hope that the fight will be postponed until early next year.
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11/16/2007
The Canadian daily the Toronto Star has reported that Toronto Maple Leafs rookie Jiri Tlusty was mortified after revealing photos of him made their way onto the internet. On Tuesday it came to light that the photos of the 19-year-old player – the Leafs’ 13th overall draft pick for 2006 – had been posted on some pages. Tlusty has since spoken about the incident with reporters, explaining the pictures were taken by cell phone last year and posted privately on Facebook for a female friend he had met over the internet. The player, who has gotten off to a good start with Toronto this season, said he now hoped to put the incident behind him, to focus on the game.
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11/15/2007
The Czech prime minister, Mirek Topolanek, has told his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, that he supports Ankara’s efforts to join the European Union. After a meeting between the two leaders in Prague, Mr Topolanek called for full membership of the EU for Turkey; he said any form of privileged partnership would not suffice. Mr Erdogan, who is in Prague for a two-day official visit, is also due to meet the Czech president, Vaclav Klaus; Mr Klaus also supports Turkey’s bid to join the EU.
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11/15/2007
The late Czech-born industrialist Jan Antonin Bata has been cleared definitively of collaboration with the Nazis. In 1947 a Czechoslovak court found Bata guilty in absentia of failing to join the anti-Nazi resistance. That judgment was overturned by a Prague court earlier this year, when the file was handed over to the state attorney’s office; it said on Thursday it was shelving the matter, as no crime had been committed.
Jan Antonin Bata was the step-brother of Tomas Bata, founder of the shoe empire of the same name. After fleeing the Nazis, he settled in Brazil, where he established a number of towns.
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11/15/2007
The Czech Republic has offered to train helicopter pilots from Afghanistan. The chief of staff of the Czech Army, Vlastimil Picek, made the offer at a NATO military committee meeting in Brussels on Thursday, the website iDnes reported. However, no concrete date for any such training programme has been set. The Czech Republic is planning to increase its military presence in Afghanistan from 224 soldiers to 415, with a provincial reconstruction team due to be sent to the war-torn state in spring of next year.
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11/15/2007
Czech and American armed guards will continue to be deployed on planes flying between the Czech Republic and the United States. A memorandum to that effect was signed on Thursday by US representatives and the director of the Czech foreigners and border police service, Jindrich Urban. The Czech police say signing it is one condition for the removal of visa requirements for Czechs wishing to visit the US. America’s ambassador to the Czech Republic, Richard Graber, has said Czech citizens should be included in his country’s visa waiver programme within one to two years.
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11/15/2007
The minister of industry and trade, Martin Riman, has strongly denied press reports that he is preparing a bill aimed at providing the secret services with easier access to data at the disposal of internet and telephone operators. On Thursday the newspaper Pravo said that the bill would allow both the counter-intelligence and military intelligence to monitor information on phone and internet communication. However, a spokesperson for Mr Riman said the minister had always been opposed to broadening the powers of the security services to the detriment of citizens’ privacy.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade took over the bailiwick of telecommunications following the abolition of a short-lived ministry of information technology.
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11/15/2007
Customs officers seized over three quarters of a million smuggled cigarettes in a raid in the Liberec region on Thursday. The cigarettes either had Ukrainian duty stamps or none at all, said a spokesperson for the north Bohemian customs police. After apprehending a man at the border with over 10,000 cigarettes hidden in his car, the police uncovered almost 40,000 cartons of smuggled cigarettes in a search of his home.
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11/15/2007
The prestigious Jindrich Chalupecky Award for young Czech artists has been won by Eva Kotakova. The artist, who is 25, combines performance with sculpture; she was selected from a short-list of five artists under the age of 35. The Chalupecky award includes a six-week stay in New York and a cash prize totalling CZK 150,000. The work of Kotakova and the four other short-listed artists is currently on show at galleries around Prague.
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