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June 20th, 2007 | Current Issue

The battle over birthing
The EC intervenes in a dispute pitting doctors against midwives

Group hacks into TV broadcast
Prank showed a mushroom cloud over Bohemia

DNA company traces ancestry
Critics say genetic info could be misused by police, mafia

Poll: Kids need stricter discipline
Survey shows 25 percent of parents support corporal punishment in schools

Boat service offered to residents
Water to be a bigger part of city transport to relieve tourist crush

ČR poised to join Schengen
EU official says member inequality is unacceptable

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PORN LAW Parliament’s lower house unanimously passed a bill June 13 that would make it illegal to possess child porn, Hospodářské noviny reported June 15. The bill carries a sentence of up to two years for those convicted. It needs Senate and presidential approval before becoming law.

FOUND A woman who pretended to be a 13-year-old girl and escaped from a children’s home walked into the Czech Embassy in Denmark June 15. Barbora Škrlová, 32, told Lidové noviny she had invented an alter-ego, Anna, to cope with adult life. The case came to light after her adopted mother was charged with child abuse. Škrlová fled in May, spurring an extensive police search. She is staying with relatives in Denmark.
SENTENCED Israeli citizen Yakov Moshaylov was sentenced June 18 to five years in prison for a 2004 grenade attack in Prague that injured 17 people. Moshaylov had tried to throw a grenade into a Jeep carrying a casino owner and three other men. He missed his target and fled the scene. Moshaylov will serve his sentence in Israel.
SCHOOL Education Minister Dana Kuchtová is preparing legislation that would allow children of illegal immigrants to freely attend national schools, Mladá fronta Dnes reported June 19. The bill would relieve schools of the responsibility to report students’ immigration status to police. Interior Minister Ivan Langer opposes the step.
RECOVERY A 25-year-old man has regained consciousness a week after driving his car into a stream and spending 30 minutes underwater, the Czech News Agency reported June 17. A spokeswoman for Orlová Hospital in north Moravia said the man can  recall details from his life before the accident. Rescuers took half an hour to resuscitate the man, who suffered from hypothermia and heart failure.

EUROPEAN UNION Foreign policy head Javier Solana announced June 18 that the EU will resume economic aid to the Palestinian Authority after the dissolution of the coalition government in the Gaza strip. The decision comes in the wake of violent clashes between the secular Fatah group and Islamist group Hamas, which recently seized military control of Gaza.

RUSSIA A military court convicted four officers June 14 for killings in Chechnya, the New York Times reported. The officers killed six unarmed civilians in 2002 and burned their bodies. The case represents one of the few times Russian officers have been convicted for crimes in the region, where reports of torture and kidnapping are common.
FRANCE The conservative party of President Nicolas Sarkozy won a majority in parliamentary elections June 17, but failed to secure the landslide victory predicted by polls. According to the Associated Press, Sarkozy’s Union for a Popular Movement and its allies secured 346 of 577 seats in the National Assembly, while the opposition left won 226 seats. The surprise strength of the left may prompt Sarkozy to reshuffle his cabinet.
SERBIA General Djordjevic, a Serbian police general who is accused of ordering the killings of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999, was arrested June 17 and sent to The Hague, Reuters reported. Another arrest in May spurred talks about closer ties between Serbia and the EU. More than 10,000 civilians died in the conflict.
SWITZERLAND The world’s longest rail tunnel on land opened June 15, the BBC reported. Loetschberg tunnel, under the Alps, will cut travel time between Italy and Germany by more than a third. About 42 passenger trains and up to 80 freight trains per day will pass through the tunnel once it is fully operational in December.

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