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Klaus conditions Lisbon signing on exemption from Fundamental Rights Charter Czech President Václav Klaus has come up with a new condition for signing the EU-reforming…
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Anthropoid: Czechoslovakia’s greatest resistance story

Operation Anthropoid was the only successful government-organized assassination of a top Nazi official. On its 80th anniversary, we look back at how it unfolded.
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Police likely to be given powers to confiscate owners’ guns in homes Police will probably be given the right to seize guns where the owner lives following a debate on…
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Police confiscate eight million crowns in counterfeit banknotes The police have confiscated a record eight million crowns in counterfeit banknotes. They found the money…
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Czech police examining “Neo-Nazi bible” The Turner Diaries

Police are currently investigating a new Czech translation of so-called “neo-Nazi bible” The Turner Diaries, a book said to have inspired the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing…
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Czech Helsinki Committee criticises government over Roma rights The Czech Helsinki Committee has released a new survey on human rights, which criticises government…
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Czech president calls plastic gun attack a “political act” President Václav Klaus has said in an interview that he considers Friday’s attack against him a “political act…
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Former Defence Minister denies knowledge of corruption in Gripen case Former Social Democrat defence minister Jaroslav Tvrdik says he was never approached by lobbyists…
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Senator Okamura to address top court over elimination from presidential race Senator Tomio Okamura said he would on Thursday file a complaint with the Czech…
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Military intelligence confirms Russian spies were most interested in Czech economy The core of Russian intelligence services' interest in the Czech Republic in 2011…
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Labour Minister says he'll fight for higher pensions The Labour and Social Affairs Minister Zdenek Skromach has said he would resign if he fails to push through higher…
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Czech police cleared of serious faults over Uherský Brod shooting

Police came in for a lot of criticism in the immediate aftermath of the Uherský Brod shooting in which a gunman shot dead eight before killing himself. The main answers…
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Prague condemns Russia’s annexation of Crimea

President Vladimir Putin’s signature on Tuesday of a treaty absorbing Crimea into Russia has met broad international condemnation. Here in the Czech Republic, the foreign…
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Press Review

The Pope praying for rain, a Greenpeace protest at a Czech chemical factory, and Czech soldiers on guard against angry mobs in Iraq - all feature prominently on today's…
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New NATO members prepare for military action The U.S. Deputy Defence Minister, Richard Armitage, told NATO members in Brussels on Thursday that Washington is currently…
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Greens to propose Ondrej Liska for education minister The leadership of the Czech Green Party is to nominate Ondrej Liska for the post of education minister. Former…
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Security expert: More can be done to make hospitals safer

The deadly attack in Ostrava’s university hospital in which a gunman killed six people and injured three others on Tuesday, shocked the nation and opened up many questions…
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US scientist using Prague records to study probability of record temperature events

The subject of global warming seems to be rarely out of the news these days, with even George Bush - known to critics as the "Toxic Texan" - talking of "the serious…
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Tlusty - dispute with Nomura over IPB settled

The highly-publicised dispute between the Czech Repubic and the Japanese investment group Nomura appears close to resolution. The Czech Finance Minister Vlastimil Tlusty…
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Music awards hit controversial note with Ortel entry

One of the Czech Republic’s biggest music awards – the annual Český Slavík or Czech Nightingale competition, voted on by members of the public – looks like it has become…
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New code strips police of power to examine individuals’ tax returns

One of the tools available to police investigating economic crimes is the authorisation to look into personal tax data. However, that will no longer be the case once a new…
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Nineteen-year-olds foolishly scope president from Olomouc rooftop

Two nineteen-year-olds from the town of Olomouc in Moravia, apparently weren’t thinking - at all - during a visit by the Czech president last Monday, June 14. Hoping to…
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Former Albanian political prisoner Tomor Aliko among guests at Mene Tekel festival

This week, Prague is hosting the fourth international Mene Tekel festival which highlights the crimes of communism and presents the testimonies of those persecuted by…
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Public Affairs: new education minister will need manoeuvring room in face of difficult tasks

Finding a successor to outgoing Education Minister Josef Dobeš, who resigned over planned budget cuts at the ministry, is seeing delays and most definitely will not be…
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Czech bullet-proof vests found protecting Iraqi insurgents

Coalition forces in Iraq have come across insurgents wearing Czech-made bullet-proof vests. American authorities suspected that illegal shipments of military equipment…
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