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10/14/2007
Several dozen people took part in a gathering in Prague on Sunday in order to express solidarity with the Belarusian opposition and show support for its efforts for the country to join the EU and NATO. The demonstrators carried the red-and-white Belarusian flags and banners criticising the authoritarian regime of President Alexander Lukashenko. A large meeting of the Belarusian opposition supporters calling for the country's integration in Europe was held in the country's capital Minsk on Sunday. Similar events in support of the Belarusian opposition also took place in other European cities, including Brussels.
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10/14/2007
A court in Johannesburg which was due to discuss the Czech Republic's request for the extradition of fugitive businessman Radovan Krejcir on Monday has again adjourned the proceedings. The commercial radio station Impuls reported the news on Sunday quoting Justice Ministry spokeswoman Zuzana Kuncova. Mr Krejcir, now a Seychellois citizen, is wanted in the Czech Republic on charges of fraud and conspiracy to murder. He escaped from the country in June 2005. In April, Mr Krejcir was arrested in Johannesburg at the Czech Republic's request. He was later released from custody on bail and is now waiting in South Africa for the court verdict on his extradition.
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10/14/2007
Princess Anne, the daughter of Queen Elizabeth II, has begun a three-day visit to the Czech Republic. On Sunday afternoon Princess Anne watched the Velka pardubicka steeplechase in Pardubice, east Bohemia, where she arrived aboard a Royal Air Force aircraft used by the British Royal family. Her schedule includes meetings with President Vaclav Klaus and Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek as well as a visit to the Kladruby National Stud in Central Bohemia.
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10/14/2007
Seven-year-old mare Sixteen with rider Dusan Andres has won the one hundred and seventeenth Velka pardubicka steeplechase, the biggest event in Czech horseracing. Last year's winner Decent Fellow with jockey Tomas Hurt was second and Eliska Premyslovna ridden by Pavel Kasny came in third.
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10/14/2007
Czech rider Lukas Pesek won a thrilling 125cc Australian Grand Prix in which the first five riders were separated by less than a second on Sunday. Pesek clocked a time of 38 minutes 3.020 seconds on his Derbi to edge out Spain's Joan Olive with Spaniard Hector Faubel third. Pesek has experienced a late season revival with his win - he had not finished in the top 10 since his home Grand Prix at Brno.
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10/13/2007
The new Bavarian Prime Minister Guenther Beckstein called for a dialogue with the Czech Republic on the post-war Benes decrees in his first address to representatives of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft in Munich on Saturday. Mr Beckstein called for the abolition of the decrees saying they were in contradiction with international law, natural law, human rights and European law.
The decrees, issued by former Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes, provided for the confiscation of property from collaborators, traitors, ethnic Germans and Hungarians, and the expulsion of ethnic Germans and Hungarians from Czechoslovakia. A large part of the deported ethnic Germans then found a new home in Bavaria. Mr Beckstein's predecessor Edmund Stoiber never paid an official visit to the Czech Republic during his 14 years in office.
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10/13/2007
The coalition Christian Democrats say they are opposed to the plan by the Prague City Hall to host the 2016 Olympic Games. After a party meeting on Friday evening, the leader of the Prague branch Marian Hosek said his party believed the event would be megalomaniac and would imply a deficit in the Prague municipal budget as well as burden the whole state budget. Christian Democrat chairman, Deputy Prime Minister and Regional Development Minister Jiri Cunek indicated that he shared this opinion. The idea to host the Olympic Games in Prague is being promoted by the Prague City Hall and Mayor Pavel Bem of the Civic Democrats.
Prague officially joined the battle for organising the 2016 Olympics in September when Mr Bem, along with the Czech Olympic Committee chairman Milan Jirasek, signed a letter declaring Prague's interest in this respect. An economic study has preliminarily put the costs of the possible Olympics at 490 billion crowns.
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10/13/2007
A study released by Czech and US scientists says small children living in polluted areas face a higher risk of suffering from bronchitis than their peers living in a less polluted environment. The study published in the Environmental Health Perspectives journal blames the trend on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, the product of burning, which are carried by fine dust particles in the air. Over a thousand children in the Czech Republic were tested in the late 1990s. The study concluded children between two and 4.5 years of age are 56 percent more likely to develop bronchitis.
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10/13/2007
A Czech NGO helping the victims and witnesses of crime says police have evicted 665 domestic violence offenders, five of them women, from their homes in the first nine months of this year. According to the organisation Bily kruh bezpeci, 664 women and 25 men were immediately threatened by domestic violence and 773 children witnessed the police interventions. In 32 cases, a person was evicted repeatedly. According to statistics, most cases of domestic violence have been reported in North Moravia, followed by South Moravia. A law allowing courts to ban domestic violence offenders from their homes for ten days after an incident came into force in January this year.
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10/13/2007
The organisers of events at Pardubice Racecourse say the venue is ready for Sunday's visit by Princess Anne. They also say drivers on the road between Hradec Kralove and Chrudim may experience difficulties. The princess is due to arrive in Pardubice, east Bohemia, aboard a Royal Air Force aircraft used by the British Royal family. Her schedule will include a visit to the 117th Grand Pardubice steeple chase, where she will present the prize to the winner. The princess, who is the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II, is also scheduled to meet President Vaclav Klaus and Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, as well as to visit schools and charity organisations.
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