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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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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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Spidla talks to Chirac in Paris Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla, who's on an official visit to France, has met the French President Jacques Chirac in Paris for talks on…
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Temelin restarted as Austrian and Czech leaders prepare for talks Technicians at the troubled Temelin power station have restarted the plant's reactor, as Czech and…
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Czech PM leaves for official visit to US Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has left for an official visit to the US. On Thursday the Czech prime minister is due to hold…
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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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Christian Democrats threaten to walk out over screening law The Christian Democrats have threatened to leave the government if their partners support a Communist party…
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Family tried to block new gun license received just month before man kills eight The family of the gunman who shot eight people dead in an apparent random attack on a pub…
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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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ČEZ applies for new license for Dukovany’s first reactor The power utility ČEZ has applied for a new ten-year license for the operation of the first unit of the Dukovany…
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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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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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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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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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Czechs votes against U.N. human rights resolution condemning Israel The Czech Republic has joined Germany and Britain in voting against a United Nations Human Rights…
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EC threatens to cut funds to the Education Ministry The European Commission has threatened to halt all further EU subsidies to the Czech Education Ministry over a lack of…
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Prague to file complaint against EU weapons restrictions by mid-August The Czech Republic will file a complaint at the European Union Court of Justice against EU…
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Press Review

Today's papers make rather depressing reading - with little else happening, the grim road death statistics get front page coverage in Mlada Fronta Dnes. Lidove Noviny…
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Mailbox

Today's Mailbox includes Topics: Spring flowers and blossoming trees. Radio Prague listeners' competition. Czech film industry. Crime rate among young Czechs. Fish and…
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Chamber to discuss Lisbon Treaty for first time next week The Chamber of Deputies is to hold its first discussion of the Treaty of Lisbon next week, the deputy chairman…
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Donated firearms, uniforms, to be used to protect Iraqi cultural sites The Czech Republic and Iraq have signed an agreement on a Czech donation of military firearms as…
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Why the Czech Republic scored worse in corruption index

The Czech coalition government has just celebrated three years in power. And if there’s one feature that has perhaps set it aside from its predecessor is the lack of…
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Czech capital on high alert after "specific threat" to security The Czech capital Prague spent a week on high alert after authorities there claimed to have received…
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Czech president sparks controversy with pardon for country’s most famous prisoner

Arguably the most famous Czech prisoner ever will soon be free after the head of state announced he would grant a pardon to Jiří Kajínek. The announcement has re-sparked…
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