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Artists compete to create best bust of late President Havel
A collection of busts of former Czech President Vaclav Havel from a competition to find a suitable sculpture of the late leader went on display in Prague on Monday.
Michal Blazek, an organiser from the Academy of Sciences exhibition,...
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Update on Czech president''s visit
1. Wide of Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic with journalists
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic
(asked about the Czech Republic''s stance on EU lifting the arms sale embargo to China)
"With...
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USA: KOSOVO CRISIS: NATO: NEW MEMBERS
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is welcoming the role of its new east European members during its summit meeting being held in the United States.
NATO's three new members - Hungary, Poland, and the Czech...
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WRAP Body, interiors, clean-up, reax funeral; ADDS AP pix of PM on death of Czech amb
1. Exterior of Marriot Hotel, smoke still pluming
2. Wide of rescue workers at front of Marriott hotel
3. Rescuers pulling out dead body at window on top floor of hotel
4. Various of destroyed hotel reception area
5. Army officers...
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Czech gov't future unclear as party says it quits
1. Former Czech Republic Defence Minister Karolina Peake walking into a news conference
2. Cutaway of media
3. SOUNDBITE (Czech) Karolina Peake, Deputy Prime Minister and Former Defence Minister of the Czech Republic:
"I heard that...
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WRAP Czech prime minister Mirek Topolanek makes official visit ADDS s'bite
1. Exterior of presidential palace
2. Convoy carrying Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek arriving
3. Mid shot of honour guard
4. Wide of official reception ceremony
5. Mid of Topolanek and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung...
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CUBA: 2 CZECHS AWAITING TRIAL
Spanish/Nat
Cuba has accused two Czechs awaiting trial in Havana on political charges of carrying a computer with instructions for dissidents from an American pro-democracy group.
The allegations were listed in a letter addressed by...
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Central and East European countries urged to return property seized by the Nazis
1. Wide delegates gathering in the conference room
2. Delegates talking
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Bobby Brown, Israeli delegation, Director of the Project Heart:
"This is the last open issue of the Holocaust. This is an attempt to do...
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Demo against PM as country in political deadlock after narrow opposition poll victory
1. Wide of crowd at rally against Czech Prime Minister, Jiri Paroubek, in centre of Prague
2. SOUNDBITE: (Czech) Vox pop, woman demonstrator:
"Look at him; he's like Gestapo. I was here in 1989 to protest and am not at the same...
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Netanyahu condemns UN resolution on Palestine
1. Wide of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Czech Republic Prime Minister Petr Necas greeting delegates and posing for a photograph
2. Mid of security officers
3. Mid of Netanyahu and Necas posing for cameras
4. Close of...
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UPITN 3 12 75 CZECH FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS
Bohuslav Chnoupek, Foreign Minister of Czechosloavakia, pays an official visit to India and meeting with Indian Foreign Minister Yashwantrao Chavan and President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed.
1. vs of Chnoupek arriving at the Gandhi Memorial and...
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President Zeman appoints his economic adviser as new prime minister, swearing in ceremony
1. Pull out of Jiri Rusnok, newly appointed Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, walking into room
2. Pan of honour guard walking into room
3. Close of camera
4. Mid of Rusnok signing oath of Prime Minister, video camera in foreground...
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Prague airport renamed after former President and playwight Vaclav Havel
1. Tight exterior of Vaclav Havel Airport Prague
2. Tight of cameras cutaway
3. SOUNDBITE (Czech) Karel Schwarzenberg, Czech Republic Foreign Minister:
"I would like to ask you all, to defend Vaclav Havel's legacy, his openness to...
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Czech government survives confidence vote, reax
1. Wide of lower house of Czech parliament
2. Mid of parliament entrance
3. Czech lawmakers entering the chamber
4. Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas talking to Czech Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek
5. Close-up of Necas and...
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UKRAINE: SUMMIT ASKS YUGOSLAVIA TO ACCEPT PEACE PROPOSALS
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The presidents of nine Central European countries are urging the Yugoslav government to accept a western and Russian proposal ending the Kosovo crisis.
The government have called on Belgrade to accept the demands of the...
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA: US VETERANS RETURN TO PILSEN
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Hundreds of American veterans have returned to the Czech city of Pilsen, which they liberated from the Germans half a century ago.
Czechs paid tribute to the old soldiers by putting on American G-I uniforms and staging a...
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SLOVAKIA: FORMER CZECH PM MECIAR ARRESTED
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Police, using explosives and axes, stormed the home of the former Czech Prime Minister on Thursday and arrested him for paying unauthorized bonuses to Cabinet members during his five years in office.
Vladimir Meciar was...
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Czech Republic - Elections get underway
Voters in the Czech Republic on Friday (19/6) began going to the polls to elect a new government. Pre-election polls indicated the leftwing opposition should do well but might not be able to form a durable government.
GV Prague;
VS...
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MIDDLE EAST: ISRAELI SOLDIERS CLASH WITH PALESTINIANS
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin says his country's security forces are closing in on those responsible for two suicide bomb attacks in Jerusalem.
Speaking in Jerusalem on Tuesday at a news conference with Czech...
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Czech Republic - Leaders sign accord
The Czech and German governments were on Tuesday (21/1) prepared to turn a page in their history by signing an agreement drawing a veil over a painful chapter during the Second World War.
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Czech Prime...
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Czech FM visits Northern Kurdish Region of Iraq and meets Kurdish delegation
The Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic Lubomir Zaoralek arrived in Irbil in the the Northern Kurdish Region of Iraq on Thursday evening where he was met by Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Chief of Staff Fuad Hussein and...
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French PM opens a French-Czech business forum at end of two-day visit
The French Prime Minister said on Tuesday that his country's major energy companies are interested in developing the Czech Republic's nuclear programme.
Manuel Valls made this statement at a Czech-French business forum during his visit...
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Party leaders comment after all of them fail to win majority in Czech election
A special parliamentary election held in the Czech Republic left no party with a majority on Saturday, which could lead to protracted negotiations aimed at forming a coalition government.
The two-day election was called to end a...
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WEST BANK: YASSER ARAFAT MEETS CZECH PRESIDENT HAVEL
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met with Czech President Vaclav Havel in the West Bank on Wednesday.
The two discussed recent developments and tensions in relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Their...