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REMINDER Daylight saving time starts Sunday, March 30, at 1 a.m. This means that you’ll need to put your clocks forward one hour after this time, so at 1 a.m. the time should be changed to 2 a.m.

COLLISION The conditions of two men who were the most severely injured in a mass collision on the Prague-Brno D1 motorway March 20 have stabilized, Brno teaching hospital spokeswoman Anna Nesvadbová told the Czech News Agency (ČTK) March 24. Police called the accident, which involved around 190 vehicles and left 30 people injured, the most extensive in Czech history.
AID A delegation of Czech firefighters donated 1.7 million Kč ($105,068) in humanitarian aid to Albania March 23, ČTK reported. The donation is to help Tirana, the Albanian capital, cope with the aftermath of a March 15 explosion at an ammunition storage facility that killed 17 and forced the evacuation of 4,000 people.
DISMISSED Four senior officials have to leave the Interior Ministry as a result of collaboration with the StB, Mladá fronta Dnes reported March 25. One official, who was deputy head of the crime prevention department, plans to sue the ministry. The vetting of Interior Ministry employees and their pasts began in January 2007.
VISAS The Czech and Vietnamese governments may create an expert committee to settle ongoing problems with issuing Czech work visas, Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek announced March 21 after meeting with his Vietnamese counterpart. The committee may help solve the petty corruption cases linked to the Czech Embassy in Hanoi, where officials are currently handling 15,000 work-permit applications.
ABORTION Christian Democratic Party (KDU-ČSL) Deputy Chairman David Macek called on President Václav Klaus to take part in a discussion condemning the legality of abortion in a March 21 Easter message, ČTK reported. In the message, Macek appeals to Klaus’ conservatism and points out that KDU-ČSL votes helped him get re-elected.
KOSOVO KDU-ČSL leadership charged its chairman, Jiří Čunek, to request a government coalition meeting on the recognition of Kosovo’s independence March 25, according to ČTK. Previously, Foreign Affairs Minister Karel Schwarzenberg said he would propose that the government recognize Kosovo during the April 2 NATO summit.
 


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