Czech Republic

Skoda Rapid was spotted being tested on a country road in Czech Republic, 100 kms away from Mlada Boleslav.

The accusation of Social Democrat deputy David Rath of corruption may have several contradictory impacts on the Czech public, Jiri Pehe writes in daily Pravo yesterday.

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Speaking in Prague, prime minister compares Iran's nuclear drive to that of North Korea's, says goal of upcoming negotiations should be freeze, removal of Iranian enrichment; IAEA expresses optimism ahead of talks.

The Czech government yesterday agreed with Ireland's protocol to the Lisbon Treaty on certain guarantees, a source well-versed in the government meeting has told CTK.

Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas expressed "a special feeling" for Israel as he met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Prague on Thursday.

A Masonic marker stands a couple of hundred feet off the road on Blue Ridge Parkway land.

American pianist Stephen Beus is one of the star performers at the American spring music festival currently underway in the Czech Republic.

Israel and the Czech Republic inked a raft of inter-governmental deals on Thursday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began a two-day visit to Prague.

Israel has "no better friends in Europe than the Czech Republic," Netanyahu said following talks with his Czech counterpart Petr Necas in Prague.

"The Czech people understand what it's like to be a believer in democracy in a hostile region," he added.

Necas told reporters at the joint press conference: "We absolutely reject the de-legitimisation and any boycott of the state of Israel."

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright turned 75 years old. She made history as the first woman at such a high office.

A photo exhibition reflecting the activities of the Czechoslovak State Security's surveillance department in the 1970s and 1980s is being held at the Prison on Lontskoho Street National Memorial Museum of Victims of the Occupation Regimes.

Social Democrat David Rath, who is facing bribery charges, yesterday resigned from the post of a member of the regional assembly and therefore from the post of central Bohemian regional governor, deputy regional governors Robin Povsik and Milos Petera have told journalists.

Czech Chamber of Deputies chairwoman Miroslava Nemcova yesterday asked the senior opposition Social Democrats to make David Rath, a CSSD deputy facing corruption charges, resign as a member of parliament, she told journalists yesterday.

The Czech senior ruling Civic Democrats want the government's church restitution bill, now discussed by parliament, to be adjusted to firmly bind churches to prove their former ownership of the property to be returned to them, Marek Benda said after the ODS deputies' meeting yesterday.

As the tour bus rolled to a stop across from a modern, concrete-and-glass house here, guide Justin Svoboda told his group: "This one's very interesting." Not the architecture so much, but the occupant, Czech businessman Roman Janousek, who is mired in an influence-peddling scandal involving the Prague city government.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will lead seven ministers to Prague on Thursday for a cabinet-to-cabinet meeting with the Czech government, one of the friendliest governments toward Israel in the world.

The Occupy movement has spread to Prague. Protesters pitched their tents April 28th in an area surrounded by political buildings.

A "collision official" may decide on placing some children in practical schools for mentally disabled instead of their parents, Lucie Obrovska, from the Czech ombudsman's office, said at a conference on the education of the disadvantaged yesterday.

A Prague 7 court yesterday meted out two prison sentences and one suspended sentence to former members of the Communist secret service StB for having abducted and beaten up dissident Petr Placak in June 1989.

The Czech Labour and Social Affairs Ministry will hire from IBM a system that is capable of preventing mistakes and frauds being made in the payment of social benefits and help save up to five billion crowns annually, daily Hospodarske noviny writes yesterday.

Catholics from the Polish town Wroclaw in which Czech footballers will play during the forthcoming football EURO 2012 want to convert Czech atheist fans to the Catholic faith, daily Pravo writes yesterday.

Three quarters of Czechs disapprove of the reforms implemented and planned by the present right-wing cabinet of Petr Necas, but they recognise that the health, welfare and tax systems need crucial reforms, it ensues from the STEM agency poll released yesterday.

PanARMENIAN.Net - On May 15, Yerevan hosted political consultations between Foreign Ministries of Armenia and Czech Republic.

PanARMENIAN.Net - On May 15, Yerevan hosted political consultations between Foreign Ministries of Armenia and Czech Republic.

Anti-corruption police spokesman Jaroslav Ibehej has told CTK that the office has been conducting a large investigation since Monday.

Prague/Brussels - The Czech opposition Social Democrats seem to "dramatically endanger the Czech drawing of money from the EU," Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek said today in reaction to the arrest of the CSSD regional governor and MP David Rath on suspicion of corruption.

While perfume houses spent millions on developing new scents and attracting celebrity endorsements, researcher claim that perhaps in some cases, all that is really needed if a whiff of BO.

Senior management from competitor, KIT Digital , also with a presence in Prague, Czech Republic, founded Vidunix , as a fresh new player on the market.

Senior management from competitor, KIT Digital , also with a presence in Prague, Czech Republic, founded Vidunix , as a fresh new player on the market.

Russian harpsichordist Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya, 26, has won the Prague Spirng international music fetival's 64th harpsichord competition, festival spokeswoman Alena Svoboda told CTK yesterday.

When compared with the plans and pledges of recent summits, NATO's goals for its upcoming summit in Chicago seem small, even trivial.

Vaclav Klaus is unlikely to join any political party after his departure as Czech president next March, but he will probably found a think tank and wait for a suitable moment to transform it into a new political party, Lukas Bek writes in weekly Tyden out yesterday.

The hotel to replace the Seacoast Inn may be part of Marriott Autograph Collection hotels , a worldwide chain of independently owned hotels, said Allison Rolfe with Pacifica Companies.

Edward Fagan talks with Austrian opponents of the Czech nuclear power plant in Temelin 20 March 2001 during his visit to the controversial facility.

Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech and Arsenal midfielder Tomas Rosicky are included in Czech Republic's provisional squad for Euro 2012.

A Lufthansa Airbus A321-200, registration D-AIRN performing flight LH-1403 from Prague to Frankfurt/Main with 120 passengers, was in the initial climb out of Prague's runway 24 when an unusual odour was observed in the cabin prompting the crew to level off at 7000 feet and return to Prague for a safe landing on runway 24 about 15 minutes after ... (more)

FOREIGN MINISTRY PAP News Wire May 10, 2012 Thursday Poland The Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Poland and the Czech Republic on May 9, 2012 signed an agreement under which Poland will lease part of its embassy building in Yerevan, Armenia to the newly created diplomatic post of the Czech Republic in Armenia.

FOREIGN MINISTRY PAP News Wire May 10, 2012 Thursday Poland The Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Poland and the Czech Republic on May 9, 2012 signed an agreement under which Poland will lease part of its embassy building in Yerevan, Armenia to the newly created diplomatic post of the Czech Republic in Armenia.

Simon Mawer 's last novel, The Glass Room , was shortlisted for the Booker prize in 2009 .

Chayan Khairul Habib From Britanny, France Britanny, May 11 -Fahim Mohammed Alam, the Bangladeshi chess prodigy, has finally been given temporary documents to stay legally in France, ending uncertainty about his future for being the son of an illegal immigrant.

Economist Jan Svejnar has eliminated himself as the Social Democrats' possible candidate for Czech president, and therefore the party's only remaining candidate is CSSD deputy chairman and senator Jiri Dienstbier, CSSD head Bohuslav Sobotka told CTK Thursday.

Wires hang out of the walls, windows are smashed and the grass grows tall in the gardens of the once-elegant archbishop's residence in Cervena Recice, a 16th-century chateau left to rot after the communists took over in 1948.

Several dozens of foreigners from Mongolia, Ukraine and Vietnam and workers of NGOs focusing on migrants Thursday protested in Prague against tougher conditions for employment of non-EU foreigners in the Czech Republic introduced by the Labour and Social Affairs Ministry.

Czech Greenpeace activists put up a banner reading "Let's Save the Arctic" on a Shell petrol station in Prague Thursday at the beginning of their month-long campaign highlighting the danger that oil extraction in the Artic would pose to the area.

Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf and representatives of the Swedish industry and research held talks with Czech PM Petr Necas and President Vaclav Klaus and they met Czech businesspeople Wednesday, Confederation of Industry spokesman Milan Mostyn and the Swedish embassy have told CTK.

Five police from Prague and north Bohemia who have been accused by the General Inspection of Security Corps allegedly abused access to police databases and were betraying information to people involved in detective activities and debt collection, Radka Sandorova told CTK Wednesday.

Earlier this week, we posted footage of Metallica's first-ever live performance of the Black Album closer "The Struggle Within." Also making its debut during the band's Monday show at Synot Tip Arena in Prague, Czech Republic, was "Don't Tread on Me." Video of that performance has now surfaced online, and you can check it out below.

Minister without portfolio and Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz will have his first crack at leading the country next week, when Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu travels to the Czech Republic.

The Czech opposition Social Democrats and Communists would together gain a comfortable majority of 138 seats in the 200-seat Chamber of Deputies if a general election were held now, the STEM agency's fresh poll has shown.

Inspired by old weaving, knotting and basket-making techniques, Kumeko created these cool floor cushions in their design studio based in Prague, Czech Republic.