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Caritas development aid project in Zambia
The Catholic charity organization Caritas has development aid programmes in
many countries of the world. It expanded its activities to Zambia just a
year ago where it has been supporting orphans at the St. Charles Academy in
Solwezi. We spoke to the project's chief coordinator Jarmila Kabatova about
why Caritas picked this particular school and what the past year has been
like.
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Kosovar babies undergo life-saving surgery in Prague
Edonis and Albion, two babies from Kosovo were flown to Prague in late July
for life-saving surgery. Both were diagnosed with serious inborn heart
defects by a team of Czech specialists active in war-stricken parts of the
world. Today both are on the road to recovery - though in one case doctors
say it was touch and go.
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Prime minister seeks divorce day after birth of his fourth child
A happy-looking mother and baby are all over Thursday's newspapers here in
the Czech Republic. But they aren't just any mother and child; the new mum
is MP Lucie Talmanova, while the babe in her arms is the son of the prime
minister, Mirek Topolanek. On Wednesday the Civic Democrat leader
announced he would seek a divorce. This may not be so easy, though, as his
wife has so far refused to give her consent.
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Will the state compensate women sterilized against their will?
Stories about the sterilization of Romany women stretch back as far as the
1970s. Experts suspect that there could have been as many as 2000 women
sterilized in what is now the Czech Republic against their will. Since the
fall of Communism, this topic has repeatedly made headlines, especially
when last year a United Nations commission advised the Czech government to
compensate victims of involuntary sterilization.
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Magazine
It was the biggest birthday party in years - Charles Bridge was 650 - but
could the mayor have got the date wrong? Czech couples rushed to tie the
knot on 7.07.07 -hoping for a marriage made in heaven -but was it really a
good idea? And, Czech mushroom pickers - humbled by a find in Mexico. Find
out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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Czechs say politicians' private lives their own business
Former Prime Minister and head of the Czech Social Democrats, Jiri
Paroubek, announced at the weekend that he was to divorce his wife. The
announcement came during Mr. Paroubek's vacation with a second woman,
Petra Kovacova - one of his former governmental employees, an attractive
blonde some twenty years his junior. While elsewhere a politician might
have reason to fear for his career, the response from Czechs has been
surprisingly muted. In fact, it has left many asking "why shouldn't
politicians do what they want with their private lives?" Rosie
Johnston has the story.
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Magazine
The very first pub on wheels in the Czech Republic! Czech hunters have held
their annual "elk bugling" contest - and, who says fishing in
Prague is no fun? An Australian angler lands the biggest fish ever to come
out of the Vltava River. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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The Czech Defence Minister sings for President Bush. Does Anglina Jolie
really want to adopt a Czech orphan? And, the armed robber who was dragged
to the police station by his own mother. Find out more in Magazine with
Daniela Lazarova.
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Unexpected baby boom produces kindergarten shortage
The Czech government is being forced to address a serious problem.
Following a decline in the birth rate after the fall of communism hundreds
of crèches and kindergartens closed down. Now, the trend has turned - young
women in their thirties are having babies - but they find that when they
are ready to go back to work they have nowhere to place their children.
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Zuzana Stromerova - a champion of natural childbirth
Radio Prague's guest this week is Zuzana Stromerova, one of the country's
few private midwives. A champion of natural childbirths, Zuzana Stromerova
has been trying to convince the authorities for years that women should be
given a choice as to where and how they want to give birth to their
children. She is also behind the project of the Czech Republic's first
birth centre which is meant to provide a home-like alternative to
maternity hospitals. But although the Prague birth centre is ready to
welcome women who are about to give birth, the establishment is actually
not allowed to perform deliveries.
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