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Zeman: Refugees should be promptly returned

Category: Czech News

Published: 30 August 2015

Written by Czech News Agency

President cites disease, terrorist sleeper cells as causes for concern

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Zeman: Toppling Nečas is my biggest success

Category: Czech News

Published: 30 August 2015

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President also blames nerve disease for making him seem drunk

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UN criticizes Czechs over refugees

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Published: 30 August 2015

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Prague holds refugees too long in bad conditions

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NGO for children won't get subsidy

Category: Czech News

Published: 29 August 2015

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Ministry says it cannot give 'exclusive and nontransparent support for a single organization'

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Child crime rates drop, nobody knows why

Category: Czech News

Published: 29 August 2015

Written by Czech News Agency

But Czech girls are catching up with boys in delinquency

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More foreigners get Czech citizenship

Category: Czech News

Published: 29 August 2015

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New rules allow people to keep their original citizenship

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Gripen fighters return from Iceland

Category: Czech News

Published: 29 August 2015

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Czech fighter planes were on routine mission to protect Iceland's airspace

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Dukovany unit shutting down for two months

Category: Czech News

Published: 28 August 2015

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ČEZ hopes to extend life of 30-year-old reactor for another 20 years

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Highway to Dresden will open for 2016 Christmas markets

Category: Czech News

Published: 28 August 2015

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D8 motorway should have been completed in 2010; work began over 25 years ago

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Friday news briefing — Aug. 28, 2015

Category: Czech News

Published: 28 August 2015

Written by Czech News Agency

Prague not to take special measures over dead refugees in Austria; Czech military base to host Ample Strike exercise again; Czech police action against shooter had defects

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Anti-drug chief: Marijuana is no longer a soft drug

Category: Czech News

Published: 28 August 2015

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1960s pot is to current version like light beer is to whisky, expert claims

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President Zeman grants no pardons

Category: Czech News

Published: 27 August 2015

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Only terminally ill convicts and exceptional cases will be considered

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Former ministry official gets suspended sentence for corruption

Category: Czech News

Published: 27 August 2015

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Ex-ANO member Vladislav Koval says he was trying to set up a sting that went bad

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US military convoy may cross Czech Republic

Category: Czech News

Published: 27 August 2015

Written by Raymond Johnston

Three groups of vehicles are expected to from Germany to Hungary for NATO exercise

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Thursday news briefing — Aug. 27, 2015

Category: Czech News

Published: 27 August 2015

Written by Czech News Agency

Czech growers lose 480 million Kč due to Russian import ban; Poll: ANO, CSSD would win Czech election with 21.6 percent each; Czech state fighting for 240 billion Kč in courts

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Wednesday news briefing — Aug.26, 2015

Category: Czech News

Published: 26 August 2015

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Schwarzenberg joins hunger strike for communism victims; gov’t adopts action plan for digital market development; new home-building savings contracts down by 24 percent in H1

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Škoda introducing greener Superb

Category: Czech News

Published: 26 August 2015

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Škoda Superb GreenLine goes 1,780 km on a single tank of diesel

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Video: World War II bomb causes evacuation in Olomouc

Category: Czech News

Published: 25 August 2015

Written by Raymond Johnston

Major street in Olomouc shut down when 70-year-old Soviet bomb found

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Czech intelligence powers widened

Category: Czech News

Published: 25 August 2015

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President signed law allowing intelligence services to get tax and telecom info

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Tuesday news briefing — Aug. 25, 2015

Category: Czech News

Published: 25 August 2015

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President Zeman to attend military parade in Bejing; Charles University offers free studies to Czech asylum holders; Czech army’s unused property section head faces prosecution

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ČSA strike likely to be postponed

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Published: 25 August 2015

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Court has asked flight attendants to ‘rethink’ the decision

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Czechs losing more to Internet scams

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Published: 24 August 2015

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Scams reported to police add up to over 1 billion Kč

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ČSA flight attendants to strike against wage cuts

Category: Czech News

Published: 24 August 2015

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Union announces that attendants will not board planes for three days

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Monday news briefing — Aug. 24, 2015

Category: Czech News

Published: 24 August 2015

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Vítkovice Holding's profit up by 62.5 percent; Czech police shelve Uherský Brod shooting massacre case; Czech court sentences mother to 17 years for murder of baby

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Czech fighters end Icelandic mission

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Published: 24 August 2015

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Iceland is a NATO member but has no military

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More minors coming from Syria and Afghanistan

Category: Czech News

Published: 22 August 2015

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The number of lone underage refugees is rising in Czech Republic

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Babiš: Stropnický would be good presidential candidate

Category: Czech News

Published: 22 August 2015

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Election is in 2018, but names are already being bandied about

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Pirates announce plan of attack

Category: Czech News

Published: 22 August 2015

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Czech Pirate Party to run in all regions in 2016 regional polls

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Underage crime victims rising

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Published: 22 August 2015

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More children, fewer adults are falling prey to criminals

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Friday news briefing — Aug. 21, 2015

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Published: 21 August 2015

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Austrian Sudeten Germans still interested in their Czech property; Czech gov’t approves programs within Health 2020 strategy; ČOI finds no poor-quality fuel in July for 1st time since 2001

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Sobotka warns of Russia when remembering 1968 invasion

Category: Czech News

Published: 21 August 2015

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Czech prime minister draws parallels to current situation in Ukraine

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Gang smuggled Peruvian cocaine in wine

Category: Czech News

Published: 21 August 2015

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80 to 90 percent pure cocaine was extracted from wine in the Czech Republic

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Soviet occupation claimed over 400 lives

Category: Czech News

Published: 20 August 2015

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Real number may even be higher, as many documents are lost

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Thursday news briefing — Aug. 20, 2015

Category: Czech News

Published: 20 August 2015

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Footballer Nedvěd to fly with President Zeman to China; Czech court takes prison director Libal into custody; Czech man sentenced for murder of elderly couple

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Giant wine cork stolen from roundabout

Category: Czech News

Published: 20 August 2015

Written by Raymond Johnston

Bohemia Sekt offers 100 bottles of sparkling wine for its safe return

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Temelín’s second unit back online

Category: Czech News

Published: 19 August 2015

Written by Czech News Agency

Both units had been shut down at once due to repairs and fuel replacement

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Wednesday news briefing — Aug. 19, 2015

Category: Czech News

Published: 19 August 2015

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Czech cubism exhibition to be opened in cubist house in Prague; Czech university builds electro motorocycle, seeks producer; mosque windows broken in Czech city

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Rath saga continues

Category: Czech News

Published: 18 August 2015

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Czech Police propose charges for suspects in Rath's other case

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Shhh! We're calling up the reserves

Category: Czech News

Published: 18 August 2015

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LN: Czech military secretly beefing up size over migrant wave

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Tuesday news briefing — Aug. 18, 2015

Category: Czech News

Published: 18 August 2015

Written by Raymond Johnston

Lyčka is new head of government-sponsored Czech Centres; HN: Amazon to open new warehouse for returned goods in Prague; eman not against live broadcast of October 28 remembrance

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Conservationists try to salvage ground squirrels

Category: Czech News

Published: 18 August 2015

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The small rodents used to be common but have been harmed by habitat loss

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Lack of cooling caused Unipetrol blast

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Published: 17 August 2015

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Officials downplay health effects of burning chemicals

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Animal ‘protectors’ kill 13 mink

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Published: 17 August 2015

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Attackers sprayed mink pink to make their fur useless

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Monday news briefing — Aug. 17, 2015

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Published: 17 August 2015

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Czech prison head arrested over suspected corruption; Czech secondary school students get 654 Kč allowance; Some 98 percent of exporters export goods, services to EU

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Security council to meet over Česká pošta case

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Published: 16 August 2015

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Bribery allegations surfaced regarding an ongoing lawsuit from 2010

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Farm chemical use down

Category: Czech News

Published: 16 August 2015

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Czech Republic is supposed to use biological or physical methods when possible

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Piping in Czech Unipetrol secured

Category: Czech News

Published: 16 August 2015

Written by Raymond Johnston

Road reopening postponed, but situation is stable

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Use of Czech soldiers mulled for border patrol

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Published: 15 August 2015

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Czech president and chief-of-staff met to discuss numbers

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Four firefighters units stay at Unipetrol

Category: Czech News

Published: 15 August 2015

Written by Raymond Johnston

Cause of extensive fire is not yet known

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15 people die on Czech roads in less than three days

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Published: 15 August 2015

Written by Czech News Agency

Unusually hot weather cited as a factor in number of accidents

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No acute danger after Czech chemical plant fire

Category: Czech News

Published: 14 August 2015

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Fire has been brought under control, allowed to burn out

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Friday news briefing — Aug. 14, 2015

Category: Czech News

Published: 14 August 2015

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Lebanon affair rocks Czech military intelligence head; Czech football clubs fined for fans’ anti-Muslim display; Czech court must deal with Romany complaint against town again

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Real estate agent must apologize to Romany woman

Category: Czech News

Published: 14 August 2015

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Judge rejects financial compensation in test case over discrimination

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Ukrainian archive holds secrets of Great Terror

Category: Czech News

Published: 14 August 2015

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Many people from Czechoslovakia vanished in Ukraine in 1937–38

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Police torch train

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Published: 13 August 2015

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Czech police set train on fire as part of criminal investigation

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First Syrian refugees coming in October

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Published: 13 August 2015

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Families with sick children still have to undergo security screening

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Thursday news briefing — Aug. 13, 2015

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Published: 13 August 2015

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Czech cereal harvest to be 4.3 percent lower this year; Fire burning in Czech Unipetrol chemical plant; Temelín reactor containment meets tightness criteria

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Police bought how many new vans?

Category: Czech News

Published: 12 August 2015

Written by Raymond Johnston

Project uses EU funds to improve response for disasters

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Temelín's second unit offline due to defect

Category: Czech News

Published: 12 August 2015

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Both units now offline again, but ČEZ has bought electricity to cover shortfall

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Interior Ministry's budget rising

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Published: 12 August 2015

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Migration concerns plus more police and firemen add up

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Wednesday news briefing — Aug. 12, 2015

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Published: 12 August 2015

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Czech military can deploy 2,600 soldiers to tackle refugees; Powers of Czech intelligence services may be widened; statues of stoned women are in Prague in protest against Islam

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Disabled surrogate child wanted by no one

Category: Czech News

Published: 12 August 2015

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Children born to surrogate mothers have little legal protection

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Jaguar shortlists Slovakia

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Published: 11 August 2015

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PM Fico: Signing of memorandum with Jaguar is milestone

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Tuesday news briefing — Aug. 11, 2015

Category: Czech News

Published: 11 August 2015

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German Ackermann-Gemeinde awards Schwarzenberg; Slovakia plans introduction of voluntary military service; Czech state selling jewelry confiscated from convicted tax fraud

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Heat, drought cause spike in fires

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Published: 11 August 2015

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Czech firefighters called to five-year record of 199 fires on Monday

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Restitution deadline missed

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Published: 11 August 2015

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Czech SPÚ fails to settle two fifths of church land return claims

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Klaus: Immigration wave poses a ‘fundamental danger’

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Published: 10 August 2015

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Former president calls for strict measures to refugees out of Europe

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Government plans drought relief

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Published: 10 August 2015

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Prague to spend 8 billion Kč from EU on fighting drought

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Monday news briefing — Aug. 10, 2015

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Published: 10 August 2015

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ČEPS raises H1 gross profit by 13.5 percent; Czech Supreme Court upholds six years for Indian for woman’s death; European lumberjack cup held in Czech town

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Two minors arrested in fatal beating of homeless man

Category: Czech News

Published: 10 August 2015

Written by Raymond Johnston

Police describe the attack as the most brutal they have ever seen

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Small group shows support of refugees

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Published: 09 August 2015

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Rally in support of refugees held before Czech detention center

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Military Solidarity Fund collects half million crowns

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Published: 09 August 2015

Written by Raymond Johnston

Funds supports soldiers and their families in financial distress

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Rally speaker accused of incitement to hatred

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Published: 09 August 2015

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Man from Slovak nationalist group faces two years if convicted

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Saturday was the hottest day of the year

Category: Czech News

Published: 09 August 2015

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But all-time record from 2012 remains unbroken

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Dawn party gets new head

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Published: 08 August 2015

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Czech war veteran Lidinský becomes leader of smallest party in Parliament

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Prisoner complains he couldn’t observe Ramadan

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Published: 08 August 2015

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Prison says it had no means to make special arrangements

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Crocodile invading drug scene

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Published: 08 August 2015

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Dangerous drug is coming from Poland, further east

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Klaus, not Zeman, to attend Rhodos conference

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Published: 08 August 2015

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Annual forum organized by úndesirable’ Russian was addressed by Zeman last year

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First refugees arrive in new Czech detention camp

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Published: 08 August 2015

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Detainees will no longer be allowed to wander freely in the town

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Court: National Gallery must return Madonna painting

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Published: 07 August 2015

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Decision on ownership of 14th century panel is likely to be appealed

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Airport runway squirrels getting relocated

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Published: 07 August 2015

Written by Raymond Johnston

Vulnerable species has taken refuge in a dangerous place

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Friday news briefing — Aug. 7, 2015

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Published: 07 August 2015

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Former education minister to work for Czech football; South Bohemia police detain 26 refugees, probably Afghans; Czech Police investigate anti-immigrant posters

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