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Shrine honouring those who escaped to UK damaged in carefully planned attack
A memorial honouring the escape of mostly Jewish children from the Nazis, organised by Sir Nicholas Winton, has been damaged in an apparently carefully planned attack.
The Valediction Memorial at Prague’s main railway station – representing trains used to transport 669 children from the Czech capital to Britain – was left with a long crack across the length of a symbolic window pane.
Memorial should be built at site of tourist attraction erected over Jewish cemetery, say campaigners
It has been called one of the world’s ugliest structures, pointing above Prague like a jabbing metallic finger while offering visitors panoramic views of the Czech capital’s more aesthetically pleasing sites.
Now the city’s looming 216-metre (709ft) television tower – one of the most distinctive architectural legacies of communism – is the subject of renewed complaints from the Prague Jewish community, which says it is a brooding reminder of the antisemitism of the regime that ruled the former Czechoslovakia for more than 40 years and whose dark history needs to be officially recognised.
US president to host billionaire prime minister with whom he has much in common
The billionaire businessman-cum-politician at the White House on Thursday has become the most powerful man in his country by riding a wave of populist sentiment. Under investigation for alleged misdeeds involving his business empire, he has responded by painting himself as the victim of a political witch-hunt. He has attacked the leading investigator in his case in personal terms while, according to critics, stealthily seeking to hamper the inquiry. The role of his children has also come under scrutiny.
That description applies not just to Donald Trump, but also to Andrej Babiš, the Czech prime minister, who this week becomes the first Czech Republic leader in years to be hosted by a US president.
Only half of the 100 ‘mushers’ who braved one of Europe’s toughest sled dog races, the Czech long trail, finished the competition, which was hit by severe weather
A man set himself on fire in a central Prague square on Friday as Czechs marked the 50th anniversary of a student’s self-immolation in protest against the Soviet invasion that crushed the Prague spring
MPs to vote on new law to ease punitive collection system
Snowed under with debts from a failed business, Renata’s hands shook as she told a tale of financial misery that drove her to contemplate suicide and visited fear on her ageing parents.
“I was so scared of the debt collectors because they were coming to my parents’ house,” she said, depicting a nightmare scenario as hungry creditors closed in. “If you are a debtor here, the state criminalises you, worse than if you’re a real criminal. Even a murderer can be released early with good behaviour. I didn’t kill anyone or hurt anyone, I didn’t want my business to collapse – but I will not be free until the end of my life.”
Former Trump political strategist Steve Bannon attends a discussion meeting with Lanny Davis, former strategist of Hillary Clinton in Prague, Czech Republic, 22 May 2018. [Martin Divisek/EPA/EFE] As EURACTIV wrote last March , an 'agent provocateur' has entered European politics, and his name is Steve Bannon, former senior advisor to President Donald Trump.
A guereza monkey jumps while carrying a newborn baby at the Prague Zoo in Prague, Czech Republic, April 5, 2018. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, following an earlier case, that animals can have standing under the Constitution to bring lawsuits .
The Czech Republic's long-sought decision to surrender custody to the FBI of an alleged Russian hacker signals a potential break in the investigation of Kremlin meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections. The Justice Department announced Friday afternoon Yevgeniy Nikulin's sudden appearance in a San Francisco federal courtroom after an 18-month legal tug-of-war with the Russian government, which made a competing claim to extradite Nikulin.
Paul Ryan, speaker of the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress, might attend some of the events within the celebrations of the birth of Czechoslovakia centenary this year, Czech lower house chairman Radek Vondracek said after meeting U.S. Ambassador Stephen King on Thursday. Vondracek said they also spoke about former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's key role in the establishment of Czechoslovakia as a successor state of the collapsing Austro-Hungarian monarchy at the close of WWI, and agreed that the then bilateral alliance should be promoted in connection with the Czech celebrations this year.
Recent changes in the world security environment, their impact on diplomacy and the problem of hybrid wars will be among the main issues on the agenda of a security conference to be held in Prague next week, Benjamin Tallis, from the Institute of International Relations , said on Thursday. The IIR is staging the "Prague Insecurity Conference" in cooperation with the organisers of the Munich Security Conference, which is the largest such event in Europe.
Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson reported last week that according to a source with knowledge of Robert Mueller's investigation, Mueller is not narrowly focused on alleged ties between Russia and President Trump. Instead, "The investigation has broadened to determine which people and organizations in Washington have spent years working secretly as de facto operatives on behalf of the Russian government."
Ivana Trump says Donald asked her to be ambassador to Czech Republic but she turned him down because she did not want an '8-to-12 job' and likes her 'freedom' Ivana Trump said that she turned down the chance to serve as US ambassador to the Czech Republic after being offered the job by her ex-husband 'I like my freedom and I want to do what I want to do, go wherever I want to go, with whomever I want,' explained Ivana while attending New York Fashion Week 'It's four years in Prague, so bye-bye to Miami, bye-bye to New York in spring and fall, bye-bye to Saint-Tropez in summer,' said Ivana Ivanka Trump revealed that her ex-husband asked her to be ambassador to the Czech Republic after he was elected president, and she turned him down.
"MunIfecas"-a short film directed by Santa Monica College film student Osvaldo Ozuna-won the Best Student Film Award at the 2017 Prague Independent Film Festival held August 3-6 in the Czech Republic capital. SANTA MONICA, CA-Santa Monica College is pleased to announce that the SMC student-film production "MunIfecas" has won the Best Student Film Award at the 2017 Prague Independent Film Festival .
Not Donald Trump's first, Czech born, wife Ivana Trump, but a staunch conservative lawmaker now appears to be the front runner to be the next US ambassador to the Czech Republic. A bigger contrast with the previous incumbent under former president Barack Obama could hardly be found.