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Russia's foreign ministry has said it will be forced to react with military means if the US and Czech Republic go ahead with plans for a missile shield.
It said Russia would respond "not with diplomatic, but with military-technical methods" if the system was deployed.
The statement comes hours after the US signed an initial deal to base part of Washington's controversial missile defence system in the Czech Republic.
Moscow says siting the system near its borders could weaken its own defenses. It has previously threatened to aim its own missiles at any eventual base in Poland or the Czech Republic.
The deal, signed by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Prague on Tuesday, allows a tracking radar base to be set up on Czech territory. The Pentagon says the shield is designed to counter a threat from the Middle East, not Russia.
Russia's foreign ministry has said it will be forced to react with military means... more
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"A seven-year-old boy was kept chained in a closet as relatives hacked off pieces of his flesh to eat, a court has heard. In a case with echoes of the Fritzl family horror in Austria, Ondrej Mauerova was partially skinned in the closet in a cellar at his home in Kurim near Brno, in the Czech Republic, according to reports.
The abuse – involving members of a religious cult – was uncovered by chance last May when a neighbour's television baby monitor picked up graphic pictures of what was happening next door.
Ondrej and his nine-year-old brother Jakub were locked and chained in the cellar for months by their mother Klara, 31 – a member of a group called the Grail Movement.
He was caged, beaten and gagged to stop him screaming, according to reports.
Mauerova had the monitor installed so that she could watch the abuse from her kitchen but the images were picked up by a neighbour who used an identical system to monitor a newborn baby, the regional court in Brno has heard.
Police were called and the two boys as well as what appeared to be a 13-year-old girl were freed. But the girl later turned out to have been one of the alleged abusers, 34-year-old Barbora Skrlova. She subsequently fled to Norway before being brought back to the Czech Republic earlier this year.
Mauerova has admitted abusing her children but she said she had been manipulated by Skrlova and her own sister Katerina. The accused are Klara Mauerova, her sister Katerina, 34; Barbora Skrlova, 33; her brother Jan Skrla and a friend Jan Turek."
By John Bingham"A seven-year-old boy was kept chained in a closet as relatives hacked off pieces... more
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John from Secondhand Serenade has been deeply impacted by the love and sacrifice of his father.
MySpace.com/SecondhandSerenadeJohn from Secondhand Serenade has been deeply impacted by the love and sacrifice of... more
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Arsenal star, and Czech Republic team captain, Tomas Rosicky has been ruled out of Euro 2008 due to injury.
The latest word is that a surgery can no longer be avoided despite earlier reports that injuries sustained against Newcastle had improved.
"He is progressing well but he is definitely out of the European Championship."
Rumor has it that Czech soccer legend Pavel Nedved may be called out of retirement to fill the spot...Arsenal star, and Czech Republic team captain, Tomas Rosicky has been ruled out of... more
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This is a basic backgrounder for Americans, primarily, who might think Europeans do nothing all day but bitch about Americans. Don’t get me wrong—they do love bitching about Americans. But they also like bitching about each other, as well. Bordering countries, especially, have complex caricatures of each other, even when an outsider might think they’re more or less the same.This is a basic backgrounder for Americans, primarily, who might think Europeans do... more
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A Czech couple who pretended they wanted to launch an international airline were stopped by the police before convincing a Swiss bank to lend them around 3.5 billion dollars (2.39 billion euros).
Czech police said Thursday in a statement that they had launched criminal proceedings for loan fraud against the 54-year-old husband and his 43-year-old wife.
The attempted fraud, based on false papers from a non-existent US financial institution, was stopped just before the signature of a preliminary agreement with the the "renowned" Swiss bank for the 3.5 billion dollar bank guarantee, police said.A Czech couple who pretended they wanted to launch an international airline were... more
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ITN's Chris Rogers investigates the disturbing underworld of illegal sex trafficking in the Czech Republic.ITN's Chris Rogers investigates the disturbing underworld of illegal sex... more
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The BBC has uncovered the continued use of cage-like beds in children's social care homes in the Czech Republic regardless of a ban last year. Youngsters with severe mental and physical disabilities are kept in these cage beds, and not just for nap time. According to this report, the undercover team found one teenager who had been living in a cage bed for 12 years.
"He was sitting upright with his head bowed. He barely moved. Around him were just blank walls and the iron bars of his cage. There was nothing to stimulate his mind, no colourful pictures or posters. The cage was his world."
This is shocking to me. Here's a video from the undercover BBC team (WARNING some may find this report disturbing):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7190000/newsid_7190700/7190731.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm&bbcws=1&asb=1&news=1#
The BBC has uncovered the continued use of cage-like beds in children's social... more
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Czech Motorcycle Rider "Matej Kus was out cold for 45 minutes after the crash, but when he woke up he conversed fluidly in English with paramedics, even speaking in an English accent."Take that Rosetta Stone!Czech Motorcycle Rider "Matej Kus was out cold for 45 minutes after the crash,... more
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BBC News: A European anti-torture watchdog has expressed "serious reservations" about surgical castration being used to treat sex offenders in the Czech Republic.BBC News: A European anti-torture watchdog has expressed "serious... more
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