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Home stretch
Government completes 13-year program to integrate Kazakh Czechs

ČR ready to join Schengen system
Border checks likely to be abolished Dec. 21, Interior Ministry says

Insiders mull failed UN campaign
Reputation, track record cost country Security Council seat

Moldovan Czechs plea for aid
Immigration provisions too steep, group says

People in Need to return to Russia
Russian officials retract terrorism allegations against rights NGO

Pastor urges action on Sudan crisis
Tensions in southern Sudan mount in wake of political deadlock

Butchers blast Slovak sausage bid
Slovakia seeks EU protected status for špekáčky as others lay claim to similar recipes

Canada lifts visa restrictions
Czech nationals can visit for 90 days

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RUSSIA A Moscow court sentenced serial killer Alexander Pichushkin to life imprisonment Oct. 29, the BBC reported. Nicknamed the “chessboard killer,” Pichushkin, a shop assistant, was found guilty of killing 48 people in Moscow’s suburbs between 1992 and 2006.

FRANCE The Chadian government charged 18 people Oct. 30 for their involvement with smuggling 103 children out of Chad to sell them for adoption, the BBC reported. French aid workers who spearheaded the operation said they believed the children to be orphans from Darfur.
UK Saudi Arabian King Abdullah accused the UK government of failing to act on information that could have prevented the attacks on London in July 2005, according to Bloomberg. Abdullah’s Oct. 29 visit marks the first state visit by a Saudi monarch to the United Kingdom in the past 20 years.
VATICAN Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholic pharmacists to use conscientious objections to avoid dispensing abortion pills and euthanasia drugs in an Oct. 29 speech, the Associated Press reported. Such behavior would prevent pharmacists from collaborating in supplying products for “clearly immoral purposes,” he said.
SPAIN Authorities arrested six North Africans suspected of propagating jihad on the Internet in a rural area in northern Spain Oct. 24, the International Herald Tribune reported. The arrests marked the first time Spanish police broke up a suspected recruiting and propaganda network operating chiefly online.
GERMANY German Chancellor Angela Merkel thwarted her coalition’s efforts to lower carbon emissions by vetoing a call for a speed limit on the country’s motorways Oct. 29, the BBC reported. Setting the speed limit at 80 mph would cause traffic jams and in effect cause more pollution, Merkel said.
FRANCE Distraught by questions about his recently divorced wife, French President Nicolas Sarkozy abruptly ended a “60 minutes” interview Oct. 29 aimed at introducing him to U.S. audiences, The New York Times reported. In the segment, Sarkozy was shown muttering in French before removing the microphone, and apparently called his press secretary an “idiot.”
RUSSIA Radioactive waste leaked from a tank onto a road at Mayak nuclear reprocessing plant in the Ural Mountains Oct. 29, the BBC reported. Local officials said a violation of safety rules was responsible for the leak and that nobody was harmed. The plant was the site of a major nuclear accident in 1957.

FRAUD Deputy Prime Minister Jiří Čunek filed a criminal report against Czech Television Oct. 30 after the public TV channel reported that Čuněk stashed away 3.5 million Kč ($185,185) while collecting welfare checks from the state prior to entering politics in 1998, the daily Lidové noviny reported.

 
BLOCKED In an attempt to prevent a planned neo-Nazi march through Prague’s Jewish Quarter on the Nov. 10 anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Jewish Liberal Union booked the route for its own purposes Oct. 29, the Czech News Agency (ČTK) reported. Despite a recent court ruling overturning its previous ban, Prague City Hall refuses to allow the march.
CHARGED The Hradec Králové Court indicted Oct. 29 former children’s choirmaster Bohumil Kulínský for allegedly having sex with six underage girls, ČTK reported. The prosecutor previously charged Kulínský with sexually abusing 49 members of the Bambini di Praga choir, mostly during tours.
MERIT President Václav Klaus decorated 24 people for artistic, scientific and humanitarian achievements on the Oct. 28 anniversary of the 1918 founding of Czechoslovakia, according to ČTK. The top state decoration, the Order of the White Lion, went to World War II veterans Stanislav Hnělička and Rudolf Hrubec.
DEVELOPMENT A government commission earmarked 1.25 billion Kč Oct. 29 for the development of towns around in the Brdy region, the likely location of the planned U.S. radar base. The towns’ mayors originally demanded three times this sum, according to ČTK.

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