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The determined rescue efforts that went into saving a group of eleven Russian miners trapped 700 metres underground for six long days has been a closely watched story - and today's papers finally bring relief - the struggle is over and the blackened, tired faces of the rescued miners look out from the front pages. It was a nightmare but it is over, one of them says. More
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The former Czech President Vaclav Havel celebrated his 67th birthday on
October 5th - what was on the menu of his birthday dinner? A Czech farmer
explains why lamas make good watchdogs. And a police surveillance camera
is a great way to prevent theft -unless of course the camera itself gets
stolen. Find out more in this week's Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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Many of the papers have gone abroad for their lead front page stories
today. Arnold Schwarzenegger appears on three front pages with attention
grabbing titles such as "Arnold's Judgement Day" and "The
Terminator goes into action". Pravo carries a photo of tennis Grand
Slam champion Steffi Graf reporting on the birth of her baby girl Jazz.
And on a more serious note, the papers all feature the news that Pope John
Paul's illness is now seriously interfering with his duties.
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Current AffairsGlobal or local approach to climate change - which is better for Czech Republic?
Last August the Czech Republic was hit by the worst flooding in the last
500 years. This summer was, by contrast, hot and dry with record-breaking
temperatures. There has been some disagreement over whether greenhouse
gases are to blame for climate change, but enough developed countries were
convinced of the dangers of man-made emissions that they signed up to the
Kyoto Protocol in 1997. The Czech Republic is one of the countries which
ratified the agreement, which says emissions must be cut by an average of
5.2 percent. Jan Pretel works for the Czech Hydro-meteorological Office -
he says to achieve pre-industrial levels of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere, emissions would have to be reduced much more substantially -
by 50 percent.
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Can a towing vehicle weighing ten tons be placed on just ten glasses of
beer? How many fruit dumplings can one eat without being sick - and why is
it a good idea to obtain a nail from a house that was burnt down in a
fire? To find out - tune in to this week's Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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The lottery fever gripping the nation makes headlines today, as does news
that teachers might strike for just one day instead of three, or perhaps
not strike at all. Also on the front pages today, two high-profile murder
cases - the killing of a priest by a seemingly unrepentant 29-year-old,
and news that a young married couple from Kutna Hora have admitted to
murdering eight elderly people for their money - the worst case of serial
murder in Czech criminal history.
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How much beer do Czechs actually drink, what's a "beer barrel
race", and where do you go to meet the winner of the Miss Garlic
contest? That and more in this week's Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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The record temperatures which hit the Czech Republic on Wednesday make the
front pages of all Thursday's dailies. carries a photo
of a meteorologist measuring the temperature at Prague's Klementinum,
where they saw the highest August temperature since records began in 1775.
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One topic shared by most Czech dailies on Tuesday is the continuing heat
wave. LIDOVE NOVINY carries a story about a north Bohemian village whose
water sources have dried out for the first time in history. According to
the paper, a total of twenty-four villages in the region have problems
with water distribution. Drinking water has to be carried to the villages
in cisterns and fire-fighters fetch service water for watering gardens and
house work.
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