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Current AffairsKlaus: Czechs want "balanced" EU approach to Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Vaclav Klaus spent three days in Israel this week, his first official visit
to the country since becoming president. Mr Klaus held talks with senior
Israeli officials and visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, and also
pleased his hosts by saying the Czech Republic would help the EU to adopt
what he called a balanced approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Current AffairsGovernment apologises for Czech victimisation of loyal, anti-Nazi Sudeten Germans after WWII
The expulsion of more than two million ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia
after World War II has long remained a source of tension in Czech-German
relations and one of the most controversial chapters in Czechoslovakia's
post-war history. On Wednesday, for the first time, the Czech government
expressed a symbolic apology and regret over the post-war victimisation of
thousands of Sudeten Germans, who had remained loyal to the Czechoslovak
state and had been active in the anti-Nazi resistance. The gesture,
approved unanimously by the government, has already stirred controversy.
Some, like the Czech president, view it as redundant, while others will
inevitably feel that it doesn't go far enough.
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Czech ScienceA whiff of salty sea breeze in Prague
Didn't manage to go on a seaside holiday this summer? But still think that
humid salty air would do you a world of good? Well, now people in Prague
have a chance to enjoy the benefits of a seaside climate right in the
middle of the city - in an artificial salt cave.
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The smallest zoo in the Czech Republic has announced the birth of the
smallest deer in the world - a barking Muntjak! Climbing into a 15 metre
long crocodile's jaws is easier than it may sound. And "WANTED"
for graffity art! Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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One on OneDr Mila Saskova-Pierce - a Czech academic in Nebraska
My guest today is Dr Mila Saskova-Pierce, who works at the University of
Nebraska's Department of Modern Languages. Dr Saskova-Pierce was born in
Prague, but like many of her generation, left after the Soviet invasion of
1968. She has been living in Nebraska for the last 16 years, and is an
active member of the state's Czech community. When she visited us here at
Radio Prague, I asked Mila Saskova-Pierce: why Nebraska?
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