Prague Informer

Wastewater injection spurred biggest earthquake yet, says study The magnitude 5.7 quake near Prague was preceded by a 5.0 shock and followed by thousands of aftershocks. What made the swarm unusual is that wastewater had been pumped into abandoned oil wells nearby for 17 years without incident. In the study … Read more on Eureka! [...]

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Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe leaves Prague a free man, but says, 'I am in no way … The metal band's frontman was accused of causing injuries which led to the death of a fan during a gig in Prague in 2010. According to reports from the time, a fan named Daniel Nosek jumped up [...]

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Lawsuit behind judge's suspicious return to judiciary, Prague court head says Prague, Feb 25 (CTK) – Ondrej Havlin, a Czech judge accused of corruption, who in the past withdrew as a judge but later resumed the post, achieved his then return to the judiciary based on a lawsuit and he received 900,000 crowns in compensation [...]

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Keep it up! Chelsea fans will admit I'm fantastic if we carry on winning says … Rafa Benitez still insists he can be a Chelsea hero and convince their disgruntled fans he is "fantastic". Former Liverpool boss Benitez has endured a stormy Stamford Bridge reign since succeeding Roberto Di Matteo in November. But victory in [...]

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Split gave Slovaks needed confidence, says former PM Dzurinda at exhibition … “Travelling to the Czech Republic – visiting not only Prague but also Brno, Ostrava, Český Krumlov and many other places – I observe that the feelings, the emotions, of Czechs are very, very positive towards the Slovaks. And vice versa.” You don't find [...]

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Czech gov't future unclear as party says it quits PRAGUE — The Czech Republic's three-party coalition government appeared to be heading toward collapse after a junior partner said it would quit. The Liberal Democrats announced the move Thursday shortly after Prime Minister Petr Necas fired Karolina … Read more on The State

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Responsible social policy can solve Romani issue, activist says Prague, Nov 13 (CTK) – "Responsible social policy" could improve the situation of Romanies that is unfavourable all over Europe, Czech Helsinki Committee chairwoman Anna Sabatova said at yesterday's Czech presentation of a report released by the … Read more on Prague Daily Monitor

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Prague High Court Upholds Kozeny Conviction, Sentence, CTK Says The Prague appeal court upheld a 2010 conviction, with a 10-year prison sentence, for Viktor Kozeny, a Czech-born businessman who is wanted for bribery by the U.S., CTK reported. The court lowered the same sentence for Kozeny's business partner Boris … Read more on Bloomberg

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Early elections better than uncertainty, says ODS deputies' head Prague, Oct 7 (CTK) – Czech senior ruling Civic Democrat (ODS) deputy group head Zbynek Stanjura would prefer early elections if the government did not have sufficient support in the Chamber of Deputies to push through its programme, he told public … Read more on Prague [...]

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We're surviving…for now, says manager of 'Prohibition' themed cocktail bar Lifting the ban won't come soon enough for the nation's bar and restaurant businesses, among them the Black Angel's Cocktail Bar, hidden away in the basement of Prague's U Prince Hotel. When it opened two years ago it was styled as a Prohibition-style … Read [...]

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Hard liquor ban is excessive, trade association says Prague, Sept 14 (CTK) – The complete ban on sale of spirits containing more than 20 percent of alcohol in the entire Czech Republic, declared by the Health Ministry Friday, is not adequate to the situation, Zdenek Juracka, president of the Czech … Read more on Prague [...]

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Property restitution will give us independence, says Mons. Tomáš Holub of … There are other reasons, but this is one big reason why we couldn't accept a centralized fund managed from Prague for the whole of the Czech Republic because then the importance of these micro-economies might not have been taken into account.” How do [...]

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Former police president says he will be vindicated 29-08-2012 16:34 | Police president Lessy sacked for alleged libel, misconduct; 29-08-2012 16:34 | Fresh Film Fest kicks off in Prague with Manipulation as its main theme; 28-08-2012 15:45 | Ombudsman takes Czech visa issues to European Commission … Read more on Radio Prague

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Analyst says security report reveals serious faults in the system BIS building in Prague “The most important finding I can see in the BIS report is that the threats to this country are repeating. It tells me that those who are responsible for solving the situation are doing little, and that they're not very … [...]

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Prague mayor says public transport head's dismissal attack on him Prague, Aug 16 (CTK) – The dismissal of Vladimir Lich as director general of the Prague Transport Company (DP) Thursday is a personal attack on Mayor of Prague Bohuslav Svoboda (Civic Democrats, ODS) that threatens the anti-corruption principles of the … Read more on Prague [...]

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