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Prague - Caretaker Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer on Saturday indirectly turned down an offer by two major Czech political parties to become the Czech Republic's nominee for the European Commission. The premier confirmed that...
Canwest News ServiceNovember 7, 2009 8:08 Ottawa's Kristina Groves was the top Canadian at the season-opening World Cup speed skating meet in Berlin on Friday, finishing fifth in the 3,000 metres. Groves has pre-qualified in...
Not long after moving to Prague at the start of 1991, Englishman Richard Drury began working as a curator at the Central Bohemian Gallery, previously known as the Czech Museum of Fine Arts, on Husov St. He has been there ever...
The ambivalence in the Czech Republic today is a far cry from the unanimity and euphoria of the days of the Velvet Revolution Twenty years on, in Prague, the de facto capital of central Europe, there is no shortage of the...
Nov 7 (Reuters) - Swiss Indoors men's singles semi-final result from Basel on Saturday (prefix denotes seeding 2-Novak Djokovic (Serbia) beat 5-Radek Stepanek (Czech Republic) 6-7(4) 7-5 6-2 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports;...
The EU has achieved the goal it has worked stealthily towards for so long - a supra-national government which is now beyond our recall, writes Christopher Booker Sickle joke: a protester in Prague gives a graphic demonstration...
In the week the Lisbon Treaty was finally ratified, the BBC's Johnny Dymond travelled the continent's railways to glean a sense of its past and future. Empty carriages In Budapest, the eastern railway station is a monument to...
Prague - The Social Democrats (CSSD) are against the idea of the Czech Republic increasing the number of its troops in Afghanistan, CSSD shadow foreign minister Lubomir Zaoralek said today, adding that Prague should discuss the...
Simi Valley - It is impossible to compare present Russia with the former Soviet Union, nor can parallels be drawn between then Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and current Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Czech President Vaclav...
Prague - The Czech Social Democrats (CSSD) today voiced support for a strike planned by the Prague public transport company (DPP) staff and criticised as irresponsible the City Hall's approach that they say leads to no...
