A team of US experts to come to radar site next week

The US Embassy has confirmed that a team of American experts will come to the Czech Republic on Monday to examine the conditions for stationing a possible US radar base at the village of Misov, some 90 kilometres southwest of Prague, which was chosen as the most suitable location.

Municipalities near the Brdy military area, where the radar base is to be positioned, are against the plan, fearing the radar could affect the environment or the health of local residents. They have repeatedly rejected the base in locally- held referenda.

Social Democrat chairman Jiri Paroubek plans to marry his new partner

The chairman of the opposition Social Democrats, Jiri Paroubek, is planning to marry his new partner Petra Kovacova once he divorces his wife Zuzana Paroubkova, Pravo reported. Speaking to the daily, Mr Paroubek indicated that all of the media would have to write about Miss Kovacova "decently", referring to the fact that some tabloids had called his partner his "mistress".

The opposition leader announced a month ago that he and his wife were divorcing after 28 years and that Ms. Kovacova, some 20 years his junior, was his new girlfriend.