Hradec Kralove, East Bohemia, Sept 26 (CTK) - The funeral of Czech ambassador to Pakistan Ivo Zdarek who was killed in a terrorist attack in Islamabad last Saturday was held Friday morning. 
Zdarek, 47, died in the terrorist bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. He temporarily stayed in the hotel due to the ongoing [...]

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Prerov, North Moravia, Aug 29 (CTK) - Pilots from the Czech Prerov air base who will be deployed for a foreign mission in Afghanistan will be flown to the French Pyrenees for training on Monday morning, Commander Jaroslav Braun told CTK Friday. 
Besides, they will be trained in the desert before the end of the year, [...]

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Prague, July 19 (CTK) - The Czech military Airbus A-319 that had to return to Prague since Turkmen authorities denied it flight over Turkmenistan on Friday left again for Afghanistan today after it received a Turkmen permit in writing, Mira Trebicka, spokeswoman for the Czech chief of staff, told CTK. 
Thirty-nine people not including the crew [...]

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Prague, July 10 (CTK) - Czech scientists may help develop U.S. military automatic vehicles and pilotless aircraft, for which the results of “stereoscopic imaging,” developed at Czech Technical University in Prague (CVUT), can be used, Professor Vaclav Hlavac told CTK Thursday. 
Americans have shown interest in the project developed at the CVUT’s Centre of machine perception, [...]

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PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic protested to Russia on Thursday over what it called threats following the signing of a pact this week to host part of a U.S. missile defense shield.
 
The Americans want to place a tracking radar system southwest of Prague as part of a plan to protect themselves and Europe against [...]

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Sir Nicholas Winton, who in 1939 rescued hundreds of Czechoslovak Jewsih children from Nazi transports, met PM Mirek Topolánek….   more

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PRAGUE (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will land in Prague on July 8 to sign an agreement with the Czech government to site a US anti-missile radar in the country, Dnes newspaper reported Saturday.
Rice “is scheduled to come to Prague on the morning of Tuesday July 8 to sign the deal. She [...]

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Prague, April 4 (CTK) - The Czech National Security Council will debate the Czech-U.S. SOFA agreement, defining U.S. troops’ status on Czech soil in connection with the planned U.S. base, on Tuesday, and another round of bilateral talks on SOFA details will start on Wednesday, Czech PM Mirek Topolanek said Friday.Negotiations on the SOFA, an [...]

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Prime Minister Topolanek says if Russians inspectors are to be allowed visit a planned US radar base in the Czech Republic, Moscow will have to permit Czechs to inspect Russian facilities.  He also said that the presence of Russian officials at an American base in the Czech Republic would only be with the agreement of [...]

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At the end of September 1941, Hitler appointed Reinhard Heydrich as acting Reichsprotektor of occupied Bohemia and Moravia. The radio reported on his inauguration at Prague Castle, and the sound of the SS military band hammering out the German national anthem followed by the Horst Wessel song still sends a shiver down the spine.
Heydrich was [...]

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