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01/22/2007
Doctors in Poland are to decide in the coming hours whether to wake Czech ski jumper Jan Mazoch from an artificially induced coma after he crashed during a World Cup event in southern Poland. The 21-year old Mazoch was knocked unconscious when he lost control in the air and landed awkwardly, banging his head on the ground, in the second round of competition on Saturday. Doctors put him into an artificial coma to limit the damage to his brain.
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01/21/2007
The coalition government of the Civic Democrats, Christian Democrats, and the Greens, will discuss all planned reform with the opposition and trade unions. In a Czech TV interview on Sunday, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said the debate will have to take place simply because the coalition does not have a majority in the lower house of Parliament and relies on the vote of at least one opposition MP. Mr Topolanek also reiterated that the opposition Social Democrats will be offered posts in commissions formed to put some of the reforms in place.
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01/21/2007
The EU needs a new, simpler, and more comprehensible constitution document that will allow the union to work effectively even after further expansion, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek says. Speaking in the same Czech TV interview, Mr Topolanek said the Czech Republic would not ratify the European Constitution agreement in its current form. The ratification process of the document was halted after France and the Netherlands rejected it. However, Germany hopes to revive the document during its EU presidency and the issue is expected to be one of the main points of discussion during German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to Prague on Friday.
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01/21/2007
The newly elected Agriculture Minister, Petr Gandalovic, will propose to government to increase the quota for forest harvesting. Recent gale-force winds have devastated an estimated 70 percent of the annual quota, covering an area of 5 million cubic metres. Mr Gandalovic says the measure is imperative to avoid a catastrophic spread of engraver beetles that attack fresh wind-felled trees.
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01/21/2007
Some 7,000 homes are still without electricity after gale-force winds damaged reception points on Thursday night. According to electricity giant CEZ, the power supply to most of the one-million people who were left without electricity has been resumed but repairing the damages caused in mountain areas or distant isolated places will take another day or two.
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01/21/2007
A little over half of the population believe that two Social Democrat MPs who made it possible for the centre-right coalition government to gain a vote of confidence were disloyal to their party, an opinion poll suggests. Milos Melcak and Michal Pohanka left the Chamber of Deputies to give the ruling coalition's Civic Democrat, Christian Democrat, and Green Party MPs a majority during Friday's vote. In the poll conducted by the STEM agency, 52 percent of respondents said the two MPs betrayed their party, while 48 percent believe that their decision was right and responsible.
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01/21/2007
Czech ski-jumper Jan Mazoch is in stable condition after a strong gust of wind threw him off balance making him hit the hill hard with his head during Saturday's World Cup competition in the Polish Tatra resort of Zakopane. He is now in a special clinic in Krakow where he was put into artificial coma, a measure often applied with such injuries.
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01/21/2007
Lucie Safarova gave a stunning victory against defending champion Amelie Mauresmo of France in the fourth round of the Australian Open on Sunday. The 19 year old Czech who ranks 70th in the world will play Nicole Vaidisova, seeded 10th, in the quarter-finals. Vaidisova defeated Russian seventh seed Elena Dementieva to become the highest-ranked player in that half of the draw. It will be the first all-Czech women's quarter-final in a grand slam since Denisa Chladkova played Jana Novotna at Wimbledon in 1997.
In the men's third round matches carried over from Saturday's rain suspensions, Czech 13th seed Tomas Berdych - Safarova's boyfriend - overcame Russian Dmitry Tursunov and will face third seed Nikolay Davydenko on Monday.
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01/20/2007
Washington has officially requested that talks begin on placing a radar station on Czech territory that will be part of a new US anti-missile defence base. At a special press conference on Saturday, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said the request was made on Friday evening. However, he has not revealed where in Europe the anti-missile base will be stationed.
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01/20/2007
Social Democrat leader Jiri Paroubek would like the country to adopt a law against political "defection". In the northern town of Liberec on Saturday, Mr Paroubek said an example of what he has in mind is legislation from pre-war Czechoslovakia when courts were able to investigate whether a politician joined a different party sincerely or because he was bribed, for example. A politician who left for the latter reason could then have been stripped of his mandate.
Mr Paroubek was reacting to the result of Friday's confidence vote in the lower house. The centre-right coalition won the vote after two Social Democrats left the chamber to give the opposition a majority. Milos Melcak and Michal Pohanka, though, have not "defected" as they are still members of the Social Democratic Party.
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