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Bleak house
Czechs lured to Scotland find abusive living and working conditions

Visa waivers on the horizon
Czechs could travel visa-free to the U.S. within two years

Skiing championship in jeopardy
Funding fiasco puts Liberec event on a slippery slope

Locals split over new trams
Space, noise and heat lead criticism of Porsche 14 T design

Making the most of the riverfront
Plans in works for a promenade inspired by Paris and Amsterdam

Folk fest takes to the streets
Annual Prague Folklore Days celebrate traditions from around the world

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UK UK military operations in Northern Ireland were set to end at midnight July 31. Operation Banner ran for 38 years and involved more than 300,000 personnel, 763 of whom were killed in the line of duty. A peacetime garrison of 5,000 soldiers will remain there under police control, the BBC reported.

RUSSIA President Vladimir Putin said July 25 that he plans to increase Russia’s military capacity and spy services in response to a U.S. proposal to base a missile shield in the Czech Republic and Poland. Putin’s intentions were posted on a Kremlin Web site after he met with Russian senior military officers.
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA Thousands attended the mass funeral in Sarajevo July 28 for 147 victims of a Serbian ethnic-cleansing campaign in the early 1990s. All but one of the victims were Muslim Bosnians, and most died in a detention camp set up by Serb authorities, the Associated Press reported. The bodies were exhumed from various mass graves and identified through forensic DNA testing.
POLAND The European Commission (EC) began legal proceedings July 30 to halt the planned Polish construction of an international highway between Warsaw and Helsinki, Reuters reported. The EC asked the European Court of Justice to stop preparatory work on the highway, which would pass through a protected valley home to rare plants and animals.
RUSSIA The European Court of Human Rights July 26 ordered Russia to pay $200,000 (4.1 million Kč) to family members of 11 Chechens killed in February 2000, when contract soldiers raided a Grozny neighborhood and killed 50 civilians. The court said that by not prosecuting the soldiers Russia was acquiescent in the crime.
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown met with U.S. President George W. Bush July 29 and 30 at Camp David. The official U.S. visit is the first Brown has made since he became prime minister in June. The leaders discussed Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, the crisis in Darfur and the status of Kosovo, according to The New York Times.
SPAIN A forest ranger confessed to starting a forest fire July 27 that burned 3,500 hectares (8,650 acres) of forest on the Canary Islands because his job contract was about to end, the Associated Press reported. Helicopters, a plane and more than 100 firefighters fought the blaze for days and at least 2,000 people were evacuated. Fires have also plagued Portugal, Bulgaria, Greece and Macedonia during a recent heat wave.
 

LIBYA The Foreign Affairs Ministry denies involvement in a compensation deal that freed five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor from a Libyan jail last month, the Czech News Agency (ČTK) reported. The Libyan government said July 28 that the Czech government had paid into an international compensation fund. The six medics had been imprisoned since 1999, and were sentenced to death following accusations of deliberately infecting more than 400 children with HIV.

WOUNDED A Czech soldier stationed in Afghanistan was shot in the leg July 29, Právo reported July 31, making him the first Czech injured there in action. He is expected to fully recover, ČTK reported. A total of 83 Czech troops are stationed in the Faizabad area in a NATO-led peacekeeping operation.
RIGHTS The UN Human Rights Committee criticized the Czech Republic in a report released July 27 for continuing to segregate Romany (or Gypsy) children in schools, failing to compensate Romany women who were sterilized without their consent and for not banning the use of caged beds in mental institutions, ČTK reported.
NATO Former Defense Minister Jiří Šedivý will serve as NATO deputy secretary general for defense policy and planning, ČTK reported July 31. He was selected from among more than 20 candidates. He is the first Czech in history to serve in a top NATO post, and is expected to take over the position in September.
TRIAL The State Attorney’s Office charged former prosecutor Ludmila Brožová-Polednová July 27 for her part in the show trial and execution of Milada Horáková in 1950, ČTK reported. Horáková was executed on trumped-up charges of treason and espionage for political actions against the Communist Party.

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