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02/22/2008
Two US citizens, Joseph Carrano and John Moore, who were detained in the Czech Republic in early February for overstaying the 90-day visa-free period and were facing deportation, have withdrawn an appeal and will voluntarily return to the United States. A spokesperson for the Foreigners Police revealed the news on Friday, saying the US nationals would return next week. The two US-born brothers, who were adopted in the US and whose parents live in Prostějov, south Moravia, arrived in the Czech Republic last October to reunite with their family. One of the brothers is banned from returning to the Czech Republic for one year, the other six months.
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02/22/2008
An agreement on the burial of German WWII soldiers' remains at a cemetery in Cheb, west Bohemia, is soon to be signed Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg said on Friday after meeting with his counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier. A final resting place for the remains of soldiers killed in Czechoslovakia during the Second World War has been an unresolved matter in Czech-German relations for some time. Cheb authorities agreed to establish a final site last November on the condition that German partners would help fund necessary repairs to the local cemetery. The total costs have been estimated at 24 million crowns.
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02/22/2008
The Czech crown reached record highs on Friday of 25.04 to the euro and 16.86 to the dollar. The Czech currency was pulled higher against the dollar by strength of the euro, Tomáš Vlk of Patria Finance told the AFP news agency. No special domestic factors played a role, he also said. The Czech crown is now the fasting appreciating international currency this year, surpassing the Israeli shekel and Chilean peso, say Czech economists.
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02/22/2008
Czech trust in the European Parliament is higher than its own, a new poll conducted by the STEM agency has suggested. The poll was conducted just days before a recent presidential election in February. More than 1,400 respondents over the age of 18 were queried. The poll suggests that half of Czechs trust the EP, while only about one-third express confidence in the country’s own Chamber of Deputies; less than 30 percent say the same for the Senate. The Czechs' trust level in the EP and the EU has not considerably changed in the past few years. Confidence decreased in 2005 during sharp disputes between the EU member states over their influence on European institutions.
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02/22/2008
Michal Slesingr earned his second medal on the third day of the European biathlon championships in Nové Město na Moravě. On Friday he finished 3rd in the biathlon 10 km sprint behind Artem Goussev of Russia and Norwegian Stian Eckhof. Earlier, the Czech earned a silver medal in the endurance race. In the women’s 7.5 kilometre Zuzana Tryznová earned a silver on Friday, finishing just 3.4 seconds behind Oksana Jakovleva of Ukraine.
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02/21/2008
The Czech government will deal with the issue of recognizing Kosovo “when the time is right”, Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg said on Thursday. The Czech Republic is aiming to maintain good relations with Serbia; in the European Union, the Czech Republic has made several positive steps towards Belgrade and it does not want to reverse its policies. Serbia is one of eight countries in transition which the Czech Republic has been assisting. The Czech Foreign Minister said that whether or not the Czechs recognize Kosovo will have no impact on the situation in the former Serbian province. Mr Schwarzenberg had already announced that the Czech Republic would recognize Kosovo after a majority of EU countries do so.
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02/21/2008
Czech troops, part of the KFOR peacekeeping force deployed in Kosovo, reinforced local police units at a border crossing between Serbia and Kosovo on Thursday. Several hundred Serbian veterans gathered at the Gate 3 border crossing near the community of Merdare to protest Kosovo’s declaration of independence; they threw stones and set old tyres on fire. The commander of the Czech KFOR contingent Jiří David said that the situation calmed down eventually. About 60 Czech troops bolstered the local police during the incident.
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02/21/2008
Zdeněk Zelenka, a former nurse in a hospital in eastern Bohemia, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday for a series of murders he committed by administering lethal doses of the blood-thinning drug heparin to his patients. A court in Hradec Králové said Mr Zelenka committed seven murders and attempted another ten between May and October 2006. The former nurse said he gave his patients the drug to “see some action”. Experts confirmed that Mr Zelenka is sane and fully responsible for his deeds. In the Czech Republic, 33 prisoners are currently serving life sentences.
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02/21/2008
Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek is expected to sign a visa-waiver memorandum during his visit to the United States next week. The memorandum between the Czech government and the US Department of Homeland Security is likely to result in the abolition of tourist visas for Czech citizens before the end of 2008. The European Union has criticized the Czech Republic for bilateral negotiations with the United States over the visa-waiver programme.
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02/21/2008
The Supreme Administrative Court rejected on Thursday a complaint by Plzeň City Hall concerning a banned neo-Nazi march that was planned for January. The authorities in Plzeň, western Bohemia, had banned the march that was allegedly organized in protest of restrictions of freedom of speech. The organizers, with links to Czech neo-Nazi movement, contested the ban at a court which said Plzeň City Hall did not have the right to ban it. The City Hall then complained about the verdict at the Supreme Administrative Court which has confirmed the ruling. The neo-Nazis are now planning to march in Plzeň on March 1.
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