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Thousands marched in Prague at the climax of the first gay pride festival in the Czech capital, defying a fine drizzle and counter demonstrations.
Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir is gathering material for his pending application to be granted asylum as a "political refugee".
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/ 4 February 2011
An eleventh-hour affidavit submitted to the Refugee Appeal Board could deal a blow to Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir’s bid to stay in SA.
Czech public television network CT is putting a sock into vuvuzelas at Soccer World Cup games in South Africa.
United States President Barack Obama and Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev signed a landmark nuclear-arms reduction treaty on Thursday.
Silenced by communism 40 years ago, Czechoslovakia’s ‘funky as hell’ music of the 1960s and 1970s has been given a new voice.
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/ 3 November 2009
The Czech Constitutional Court threw out a complaint against the EU’s Lisbon Treaty on Tuesday, removing the last obstacle to its ratification.
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/ 11 October 2009
Prague may suffer from tourist overload, but if you know where to look you can still find its Bohemian soul, writes Sophie Cook.
Czech opposition Social Democrats have their best chance yet on Tuesday of toppling Mirek Topolanek’s minority centre-right administration.
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/ 30 October 2008
It takes a lot to make him break his silence — Kundera has given few interviews in the past 25 years.
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/ 2 September 2008
When Vaclav Havel went from being a dissident to a president, "the arc of my story was completed in a way that was almost like a fairytale", he notes.
About 100 cars collided in a huge pile-up in a heavy snowstorm in the Czech Republic on Thursday, completely blocking its main highway, officials said. Six people were seriously injured and about 18 others suffered light injuries in accidents on the road from the capital, Prague, to the south-eastern city of Brno, said regional governor Milos Vystrcil.
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/ 24 January 2008
Lili, Demi and Mek, three female antelopes born in a Czech zoo, will soon be set free in Swaziland under a programme to reintroduce endangered species to their African homeland. Swaziland’s last living example of the roan antelope was killed in a trap almost half-a-century ago in 1961.
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/ 7 November 2007
Arsenal can advance to the knockout stage of the Champions League by beating Slavia Prague on Wednesday. Arsenal, which beat Slavia 7-0 on October 23 to equal the biggest margin of victory in the Champions League, hasn’t conceded a goal in the competition this season and can extend its overall unbeaten streak to 19.
United States President George Bush sought to calm Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Tuesday over plans for a US missile defence shield in Eastern Europe, saying on the eve of a big-power summit that Russia had nothing to fear. The Kremlin leader reacted furiously to a US plan to site a radar system in the Czech Republic and missile interceptors in Poland.
A Czech court ruled on Thursday that a British tourist who was seriously injured when a Christmas tree collapsed on top of him should receive 560 000 koruna (about R190 000) compensation. British tourist Malcolm Tuffin suffered a fractured femur and injuries to his spine and chest when the 23m tree fell on top of him.
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/ 22 December 2006
Czechs have launched an ”anti-Santa” campaign against the white-bearded usurper they fear is edging out the infant Jesus or ”Jezisek”, the traditional bearer of seasonal gifts for centuries. ”I do not have any wish to see a fat man dragging a bag at Christmas. I want to retain my own vision of the infant Jesus,” said the founder of the campaign, Prague publicity agency manager, Petr Vlasak.
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/ 19 October 2006
Three young giraffes died at a Czech zoo, famed for its work on endangered species, as a result of a power cut, the head of the zoo said on Thursday. ”When the power came on again in their enclosure after the power failure, the animals were startled by the lamps. They bolted and suffered fatal injuries when they fell,” the zoo said.
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/ 11 October 2006
Czech President Vaclav Klaus accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek’s minority government on Wednesday, opening the way for talks on selecting a new Cabinet and possible early elections. Klaus will meet with leaders from all five political parties in the lower house on Thursday.
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/ 19 September 2006
Czech consumption of non-alcoholic beer has surged since stricter rules for drivers were introduced at the start of July, Czech daily <i>Lidove Noviny</i> reported on Tuesday. "Just in July and August we saw sales of non-alcoholic beer in grocery stores rise by 81%," manager of the Staropramen brewery, Martin Novak, told the paper.
Pluto on Thursday lost its seven-decade status as the ninth and outermost planet of the solar system, the world’s top astrononomical body decided. The decision was made at an assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). ”The eight planets are Mercury, Earth, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune,” said the IAU.
Italian Loris Capirossi, starting from second in the grid on a Ducati, won the Czech MotoGP, the 12th leg of the world championship, in Brno on Sunday 16 years after his maiden victory in the 125cc category. Capirossi took an early lead in the 22-lap race, at one point opening up a near-eight-second gap on the chasing pack.
The question of whether Pluto is a real planet, hotly debated by scientists for decades, came to a head on Wednesday when the global astronomers’ body proposed a definition of a planet that raises their number to 12 from nine. Pluto would remain a planet but would fall into a newly created category called ”plutons”.
Czech police detained a journalist who tried to test out airport security at a regional airport on Friday, police spokesperson Roman Pittner said. "In the current situation we judge this as stupid," Pittner said, referring to the foiled terrorist attempt to bomb aircraft leaving London’s Heathrow airport.
A feast for the eyes awaits any hiker or biker who struggles up the steep grade to reach a mountain peak in the tiny village of Peklo, Czech Republic. Peklo is home to one of the scores of scenic overlooks that dot the mountain and cliff-tops throughout the Jizerske Hory mountain range, about 150km north of Prague.
After decades under suspicion, Sigmund Freud is making a comeback in the country of his birth 150 years ago, where he left a legacy complex enough to merit a few sessions on the couch. In Prague, seminars, conferences and public exhibitions over his influence on art, as well as smaller events in his birthplace Pribor, all testify to something of a Freud revival in the Czech Republic.
Women struggling with the discomforts of menopause may soon find relief in a cold glass of beer. Experts in the Czech Republic are working on a beer specifically brewed for women experiencing hot flashes, troubling sleeping and other woes during this phase.
Czech officials declared a state of emergency in seven flood-hit regions while rivers continued to rise in neighbouring European countries on Monday, forcing evacuations in some areas. Flooding was reported in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Austria and Slovakia. The Elbe River swelled toward a new peak in Germany on Monday.