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Souls of the new machine
Czech scientists participate in the construction of the world's most powerful atom smasher

EU heads meet on Caucasus conflict
Czech leaders focus on economic and humanitarian aid

Planned skyscrapers are 'too high'
Prague 4's City Project draws UNESCO and local criticism

Education community loses respected leader
Students, faculty mourn death of Anglo-American University co-founder John H. Carey II

New convent gives hope for faith
As some religious orders flourish, others decline at alarming rate

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RUSSIA Magomed Yevloyev, the owner of an Internet site critical of the authorities in the volatile region of Ingushetia, was shot dead while in police custody, the BBC reported Aug. 31. He was detained immediately after landing at the local main town Nazran. According to police sources, Yevloyev tried to seize a policeman’s gun while being led to a vehicle, resulting in a fatal shot to his head.

POLAND Prime Minister Donald Tusk sought to reassure residents near the site of the planned $300 million U.S. missile-defense base Aug. 29, pledging the country would be more secure, the Associated Press reported. Before facing residents in Slupsk, Tusk visited the former air base in Redzikowo. In August, the country reached a deal with the United States on building the site for missile-defense interceptors by 2012.
SLOVAKIA Inspectors have uncovered mistakes in converted euro prices shown on products sold in Slovakia, reported Slovak daily Pravda Aug. 28. Many prices were off by 50 cents, especially those on food. Some shops failed to convert their prices altogether. Businessmen claimed that wrong prices were caused by faulty rounding.
ITALY Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has signed an agreement to pay Libya $5 billion as part of a deal to resolve colonial-era disputes, the BBC reported Aug. 30. Libya was occupied by Italy in 1911 before becoming a colony in the 1930s. It gained independence in 1951. Libya is the first African country to be compensated by former colonists. Col. Muammar Gaddafi said that the deal opened the door to a new partnership between the two states.
SWITZERLAND A woman beheaded after being accused of witchcraft was exonerated Aug. 27, more than 225 years after she became the last person executed as a witch in Europe, the Associated Press reported. The decision to clear Anna Göldi came after long debate in the eastern canton of Glarus, and was taken in consultation with the Protestant and Roman Catholic churches. A museum on Göldi opened in the village of Mollis last year.
SERBIA Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžič refused to enter a plea to charges of war crimes at the United Nations tribunal in The Hague, the BBC reported Aug. 29. A tribunal judge entered a plea of not guilty to all charges on his behalf, in line with the rules of the court. Karadžič refuses the court’s right to try him, and says it is a NATO instrument aimed at his liquidation.
SWEDEN A 78-year-old woman tried to board a flight by climbing onto a luggage belt after her suitcase at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport, the BBC reported Aug. 28. The unnamed woman said she thought she was following check-in procedures. Airport staff said she was whisked into the baggage handling bay where she was rescued. The woman was not injured and caught her flight to Germany, police said.

KIDNAPPING The Foreigners’ Police and Organized Crime Unit staged an operation against child kidnappers at Prague’s Ruzyně Airport last week, the Czech News Agency (ČTK) reported Sept. 1. Police targeted passengers with children, checking their travel documents. Although there were no arrests, police have called the operation a success. 

LEGACY The Czech-American head of the Bata International shoemaking company, Tomáš Baťa Jr, died in Toronto Sept. 2 at the age of 93. Upon hearing the news of his death, President Václav Klaus called Baťa “one of the really great personalities of our present times,” ČTK reported.
RAILWAYS A year after the Prague–Holešovice train station was renamed Nádraží Franze Kafky, related officials including Prague 7 town hall and the Rail Authority know nothing about the name change, Hospodářské noviny reported Sept. 2. The renaming by Czech Railways was an attempt to attract new customers with an improved image.
PREGNANCY An increasing number of foreign women are coming to the Czech Republic to seek out artificial insemination methods that are illegal in their home countries, ČTK reported Sept. 2. The Czech Republic allows for the donation of human eggs, and women mostly from Italy, Germany and Israel are prepared to pay up to 10,000 Kč ($600) for the treatment.
ROAD TRIP Two Czech students who are taking a corporate sponsored road trip around the world in a nearly 40-year-old Škoda left Olomouc, north Moravia, Sept. 1, ČTK reported. They plan to cover 35,000 miles in Europe, Asia and the United States. They had overhauled the car themselves and named it Julinka.

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