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ACTA opponents plan country-wide protest
Opponents of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) will join the Europe-wide protests on Saturday and stage demonstrations across the country, the Czech Pirate Party announced on its website yesterday.
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Child abuser conditionally released from jail
Barbora Škrlová, who was in 2008 sentenced to five years in prison for her role in the Kuřim child abuse case, was yesterday conditionally released from jail.
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Legislators approve changes covering denial of fatherhood
Lawmakers have approved changes to legislation covering the denial of fatherhood, overriding an earlier Senate veto.
Teaching hospitals financially stable despite crisis, health minister says
Teaching hospitals and other healthcare facilities directly operated by the Health Ministry have been financially stable despite the continuing economic crisis and increased doctors' salaries, Health Minister Leoš Heger (TOP 09) told reporters yesterday.
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Education minister, PM to discuss university tuition
Education Minister Josef Dobeš (Public Affairs, VV) wants to discuss the tuition system planned for university students with Prime Minister Petr Nečas and academics, VV leadership told reporters yesterday.
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HN: One-third of teenagers suffer from obesity
About one-third of teenage boys and one-quarter of teenage girls suffer from obesity, a recent research shows, daily Hospodářské noviny (HN) reported yesterday.
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MfD: Snowboarding lessons for elderly in Jeseníky mountains
Snowboarding lessons for the elderly - one of its kind in Europe - are now on offer in Kouty nad Desnou, in the Jeseníky mountains, north Moravia, Mladá fronta Dnes (MfD) reported yesterday.
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Local officials circulate photos, allegedly of Romani corpses, with racist remarks
News server iHNED.cz reports that officials working at the town hall in Lovosice have been circulating an e-mail among themselves that includes photographs of burned bodies. The subject of the email is "How Gypsies in Ústí Region stole a cable."
Online child harassment on the rise
The number of cases of child harassment on the internet is increasing, according to the Children's Crisis Centre.
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Temperatures plummet to record low
Meteorologists have observed -39.4 degrees Celsius yesterday morning, the coldest temperature this winter, in Kvilda, in the Šumava mountains.
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