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  • HEALTH -
    • Pharmaceutical companies and patients are up in arms over Health Minister David Rath's controversial new plan on drugs, which takes effect August 1. They say it will limit patients' access to the newest pharmaceuticals. Rath says it's a cost saving measure based on the prices of generic drugs and won't adversely affect patients.

  • ABUSE -
    • Two Brno policemen are being prosecuted on charges of abusing public office, after allegedly tormenting a young Romany man, the daily Právo reported July 7. One of the officers suspected the man of attacking his son and other children. Rather than arresting the suspect, the officers are accused of beating him and putting an unloaded gun in his mouth.

  • BETS -
    • Czechs bet nearly one billion Kč ($45,000,000) on the World Cup, making it the biggest betting event in Czech history. Bookmakers made profits thanks to Brazil's unexpected elimination from the final matches and to the Czech Republic's surprising loss against Ghana.

  • MADONNA -
    • A statue of the Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus that was stolen from a Moravian church was discovered by police in Vienna, the daily i<>Mladá fronta Dnes reported July 8. The statue, which was taken from Cholín, north Moravia, a decade ago, turned up in an antique shop. The likeness, created in the 1420s, is worth more than 4 million Kč ($179,000).

  • ZEMAN -
    • Former Prime Minister and Social Democrats (ČSSD) Chairman Miloš Zeman said July 5 he will not run for Senate this fall. Zeman was asked to run by outgoing prime minister and ČSSD Chairman Jiří Paroubek. Zeman had said that his participation in the ČSSD campaign before June's election would be his last political effort.

  • COLLABORATOR -
    • Vojtěch Filip, chairman of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, has testified, according to court documents from 13 years ago, that he knowingly worked for the military intelligence service under the Communist regime in the 1980s. Filip now says he was being used by the military intelligence service without his knowledge.

  • NUCLEAR -
    • The Temelín nuclear power plant had to shut down one of its reactors July 10, halting the delivery of electricity, because of a sudden malfunction. Austrian activists threatened to protest, saying Temelín's frequent malfunctions make the plant unsafe.


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