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03/12/2007
Eight people have been charged after clashes between members of far-right and hard-left groups in Prerov on Saturday, police said. Bottles and cobblestones were thrown as police struggled to keep 180 members of a group called National Corporativism apart from 150 left-wing extremists in the north Moravian town.
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03/12/2007
At least 35 people were evacuated from a guesthouse in northern Bohemia on Sunday night after ammunition was found nearby. Explosives experts were called to the scene and identified the ammunition as a training device for tank gunnery. The police are now trying to ascertain who placed the ammunition on a wall close to the guesthouse.
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03/12/2007
Over 107,000 people saw the new Czech film Vratne Lahve (Refundable Bottles) in its opening weekend, in what is a modern record for Czech cinema. Director Jan Sverak said he was glad the film - written by and starring his father Zdenek - had also been enjoyed by other people.
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03/12/2007
The Czech speed skater Martina Sablikova set a new world record on Sunday when she completed the 5,000 m in a time of 6:45.61. As well as a new record the 19-year-old took gold in the event at the World Speed Skating Championships in Salt Lake City. Sablikova also took gold in the 3,000 m at the championships.
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03/11/2007
The Social Democrats should decide on their candidate for next year's presidential election within two months, chairman Jiri Paroubek said on Sunday. Speaking on Czech Television, Mr Paroubek said he wanted to put forward a resolution at his party's next conference against any of the Social Democrats' MPs or senators voting for the incumbent Vaclav Klaus in the bicameral secret vote. He said his party were willing to put aside their own interests in order to see the president replaced. Mr Paroubek also criticised Mr Klaus for remaining honorary chairman of the Civic Democrats after he became Czech president.
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03/11/2007
Meanwhile, President Klaus is bringing out a collection of essays, speeches, articles and photographs called Rok ctvrty (Fourth Year). The president, who has published a number of books, is set to sign copies of his latest at a Prague centre bookshop on Monday.
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03/11/2007
Four men died near Opava in north Moravia in the early hours of Sunday morning when they crashed into a tree on their way home from a disco. The four were aged between 20 and 25. A woman passenger survived but is in a serious condition in hospital. Four other people died in accidents around the Czech Republic on Saturday night and Sunday morning.
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03/11/2007
Two men died on Sunday when their ultra-light plane crashed in north Moravia. The plane came down near the village of Trnavka, around 100 metres from a main road. Air traffic inspectors are now looking into the accident.
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03/11/2007
The rock group Kabat will represent the Czech Republic at the Eurovision song contest in Helsinki in May. The band won Czech Television's Eurosong competition to find the country's first ever Eurovision representative. Kabat formed in 1983 but have become big stars only in recent years. Their latest CD Corrida was the biggest selling album in the Czech Republic last year, despite not being released until December.
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03/11/2007
The music and youth television station MTV is planning to launch a Czech MTV channel next year, the Czech Business Weekly reported. A representative of the station told the weekly that MTV was currently in talks with one or two potential partners in the Czech Republic and hoped to finalise a deal soon. MTV would find itself in competition with the German-owned music station Ocko, which has an estimated audience of 650,000 viewers a week.
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