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Missile defence conference held in Prague but Condi, political consensus both absent
The Czech Foreign Ministry played host to a conference on missile defence on Monday, with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer among the guest speakers. The…
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Iconic red and cream Prague trams get new lease of life in Pyongyang
The Prague Transport Authority announced on Tuesday that the first of twenty reconditioned trams would be shipped to North Korea this week. The North Korean government are…
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Missile defence conference held in Prague but Condi, political consensus both absent
Prague’s Foreign Ministry played host to a conference on missile defence on Monday, with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer among the guest speakers. The…
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No dumplings please, we’re Czech – local cuisine throws off shackles of drab past
The Czech capital Prague has just become the first city in the former eastern bloc to receive a coveted Michelin star. The world-renowned guide to fine dining singled out…
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Greenpeace occupies radar base site as Condoleezza Rice trip postponed
Plans to build a radar base 70km southwest of Prague as part of the U.S. missile defence shield encountered a minor setback on Monday, as it emerged that U.S. secretary of…
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Civic Democrat senators delay ratification of EU Lisbon Treaty
The upper house of the Czech parliament, the Senate, voted to send the so-called Lisbon Treaty to the Constitution Court on Thursday, a move that could delay Czech…
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Choirmaster walks free despite being found guilty of sexually abusing 40 girls
A verdict in the East Bohemian city of Hradec Králové left many women’s rights activists - and others – puzzled and angry on Wednesday. In the culmination of a long legal…
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VONS veterans meet to remember campaign against Communist repression
Thirty years ago, on April 24th, 1978, seventeen Czechoslovak citizens got together and decided to form an organisation called VONS – the Committee for the Defence of the…
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Constitutional Court postpones decision on “unconstitutional” doctor’s fees
The Constitutional Court in Brno has postponed a decision on whether symbolic fees for visiting the doctor are unconstitutional. The court’s chairman Pavel Rychetský said…
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Havel in new bid to help EU money “trickle down” to pro-democracy groups
The former Czech president Václav Havel is in Brussels on Tuesday to launch a new pan-European human rights initiative called the European Foundation for Democracy through…
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