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All the Czech dailies dedicate most of their front page space to Thursday's
terrorist attacks in the Spanish capital Madrid in which almost 200 people
died and around 1,400 were injured. All papers carry photos of the scenes
of devastation as well as pictures of rescue workers and medical personnel
helping the victims.
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All of Thursday's dailies feature cover photos of former Finance Minister
Ivo Svoboda and his former assistant Barbora Snopkova leaving court after
being handed down guilty sentences for fraud. The baseball-capped Mr
Sovoboda and bee-hived Mrs Snopkova look visibly shaken by the verdict,
which sent both sent to prison for five years. Both immediately appealed
the decisions. If the sentences are confirmed it will mark the first time
a former government minister in the Czech Republic spends time behind
bars.
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All Czech dailies are unanimous in their choice of the main story today:
the government's failure to push through a bill on rents in a vote which
experts said would test the strength of the ruling coalition. Mlada Fronta Dnes says that the important bill was not refused by the lower house just
because of two MPs that recently left the junior coalition Freedom Union.
The reason was that several coalition MPs were on foreign trips and the
opposition easily rejected the bill, Mlada Fronta Dnes explains.
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Iraq's new interim constitution, hailed as an important step on the road to
democracy, the reasons behind the record unemployment in the Czech
Republic and the future of the governing coalition following the latest
rift within one of the smaller parties in government are the main topics
on most front pages.
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All today's papers analyse the current tension in the governing coalition.
Similar headlines in Mlada Fronta Dnes, Lidove Noviny and Pravo say that
the junior coalition partner Freedom Union has decided to stay in the
government after all. Lidove Noviny writes that after a five-hour long
meeting on Sunday night, the national committee of the Freedom Union gave
its chairman and Deputy Prime Minister Petr Mares a vote of confidence.
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All Czech dailies carry photos of Czech President Vaclav Klaus and European
Commission President Romano Prodi who met yesterday in Brussels to discuss
issues of European Union enlargement and the future of its financing.
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U.S. presidential hopeful John Kerry's overwhelming victory in Super
Tuesday makes the front pages of all the dailies today. The elaborately
coiffured Democrat - who reportedly has some Czech blood running through
his veins - is shown kissing his wife and daughters after winning nine out
of ten states in Tuesday's primaries.
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The massacre in Iraq fills the front pages of all dailies, with Lidove Noviny describing it as the worst day since the end of the war. There are
horrifying reports by foreign correspondents and speculation regarding who
is directly responsible for the efforts to bring about a civil war.
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All the Czech papers lead with Monday's shocking murder of a teacher who
was stabbed by his student in the east Bohemian town of Svitavy. The
Academy Awards that were held in Los Angeles early on Monday morning CET
also make the front pages, with the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
emerging as the clear winner of the night with a record eleven Oscars. But
it was not a lucky night for the Czech film industry as Zelary, the Czech
nominee in the Foreign Film category, came close but not close enough, the
papers report.
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The situation in Haiti, where the UN Security Council authorized the
deployment of a multi national force, fills the front pages of all Czech
dailies. "The fall of a dictator", reads the lead headline in
today's Mlada Fronta Dnes reporting that Haiti today is a mixture of
euphoria and chaos. Closer to home, the situation in eastern Slovakia,
where the Roma minority has been looting shops in protest of lowered
social benefits, remains at the centre of attention.
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