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Czech government, aid groups join Burma relief effort
Time is running out for hundreds of thousands of people stranded without food, drinking water and medical supplies on Burma’s Irrawaddy Delta, in the wake of the…
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Woman who posed as girl set free but rearrested outside court
On Friday a court in Brno passed down a not-guilty verdict against Barbora Škrlová, a 33-year-old woman who posed as a 13-year-old girl, went on the run, and reappeared…
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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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