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05/10/2009
The US Embassy in Prague will present nearly 400 English-language books to a research library in Ostrava next week. The gift will include some 150 classic works of American fiction by authors such as John Steinbeck, Jack London and F.S. Fitzgerald. Another 230 books are reference publications: travel guides, atlases and books on US history. The gift also features a collection of speeches by American presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
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05/10/2009
Kenyan athlete Patrick Ivuti won the Prague International Marathon on Sunday. He made a time of 2:07:28, breaking the course record by more than a minute. The first woman to reach the finishing line was Russia’s Olga Glokova. Patrick Ivuti had a good start and was holding a front position throughout most of the marathon. In the second half of the race, he sped up and broke away, taking 16,000 euros in prize money and a bonus of another 10,000 euros for setting the new course record. The first Czech to finish the Prague International Marathon was Mulugeta Serbessa, a 38-year-old Ethiopian-born runner.
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05/10/2009
Czech tennis player Tomáš Berdych, seeded fourth, defeated Russia’s Mikhail Youzhny 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 in Sunday’s final of Munich's ATP claycourt tournament, securing the first title this year and fifth career ATP tour title. Berdych took the first set in only 44 minutes but then allowed the unseeded Russian to come back in the second. In the third set, Berdych was already 5-1 ahead but Youzhny rallied back to 5-5 and had the Czech on the ropes in the tie-breaker. Berdych however produced some faultless play under pressure and won 7-5, picking up the 71,700 euros winners cheque.
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05/09/2009
The former Czech deputy prime minister for European affairs, Alexandr Vondra, criticized French president Nicolas Sarkozy for having complicated the Czech EU presidency, the French daily Le Monde reported on Saturday. Mr Vondra, who handed over EU agenda to his successor in the new government on Friday, criticized the French head of state at the EU summit for Eastern Partnership which was held in Prague on Thursday, and which was ignored by leaders of several EU countries including France. The former Czech deputy PM also said that Mr Sarkozy’s “imperial style” and unpredictable moods made things more difficult for the collective presidency of the bloc.
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05/09/2009
In related news, Sweden is ready to assist the Czech Republic with the remainder of the country’s presidency of the European Union, the Swedish PM Fredrik Reinfeld told Swedish Radio on Friday. Mr Reinfled said his country, which will take over the presidency in July, is now facing higher responsibility because of the fall of the Czech government halfway through the presidency. The Swedish leader said that instead of waiting for the end of the Czech term at the EU’s helm, it was better to provide assistance to the new Czech government to successfully complete the presidency. In June, the EU will hold an important summit that will deal with the situation in Ireland and will also elect the new head of the European Commission.
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05/09/2009
A 43-year-old man was severely wounded during a WWII battle re-enactment near the community of Slivice, some 50 km southwest of Prague, on Saturday. The re-enactor was handling explosives that went off in his hands, the Czech news agency reported. He lost one of his hands and several fingers on the other hand in the explosion, and was taken to hospital by a helicopter. The history buff was taking part in the re-enactment of the last battle of the Second World War in Europe, which occurred near Slivice on May 11, 1945 between the retreating German troops and local guerrilla groups, assisted by the US Army. The fighting went until the early hours of May 12, four days after Germany surrendered to the Allies.
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05/09/2009
The number of foreign patients treated in Czech hospitals rose by nearly 13 percent last year, according to government figures. Almost 80,000 foreigners received health care in Czech hospitals in 2008; most of them came from Slovakia, Ukraine, Germany and Vietnam. Health care provided to foreigners cost more than 550 million crowns, or 28 million US dollars, and was covered by foreign insurance plans or by the patients in cash.
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05/09/2009
Around two thousand people marched through the centre of Prague on Saturday in support of the legalization of cannabis. This year’s Million Marihuana March got underway in city centre and ended in the Prague neighbourhood of Žižkov. Dozens of police officers oversaw the march. The Czech Republic has one of the highest rates in consumption of the drug in Europe; a 2007 poll suggested that around one third of 24-year-olds have experimented with marihuana. Although growing and possessing the drug is illegal, the country’s Supreme Court ruled last year that growing cannabis for medicinal purposes was not necessarily against the law.
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05/09/2009
In related news, the police discovered about 1,000 marihuana plants in a house in near Děčín, northern Bohemia, on Friday. Three foreign nationals were arrested; two of them were trying to escape and police officers had to fire warning shots. The authorities have to yet formally accuse the foreigners.
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05/09/2009
Seventeen people are currently being tested for the swine influenza virus in the Czech Republic, the Czech Health Ministry announced on Saturday. Six people are awaiting test results in hospital while the health authorities have ruled out 51 suspected cases of the virus. Most of the patients are Czech tourists who have recently returned from Mexico and the United States.
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