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PRAGUE, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a panel discussion on Friday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Prague. Vice Premier and...
Ballet dancer Jiri Jelinek is trading in Stuttgart, Germany, for Toronto, the National Ballet of Canada announced on Friday. Jelinek, who was born in Prague, will join the National Ballet as a principal dancer starting in...
NEW YORK -- Four months later, one week after people power brought down the Berlin Wall, revolution came to Prague. As they marched toward Wenceslas Square, bearing candles, riot police cut them off, and many -- men, women,...
PRAGUE-Austria’s stock exchange listed Sparkassen Immobilien has sold Gemini, a commercial and office building in Prague's Fourth District, Pankrác, to Deka Immobilien. On full occupancy the purchase price amounts to some €110...
Za Svobodu! – called Be Free! in English – is the title of an exhibition the Czech National Museum opened on Tuesday’s anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution. It is located in the institution’s new building, the...
A TOL special report. On 17 November 1989, police in Prague cracked down on a student demonstration, triggering 10 days of mass protest and political action that peacefully brought down Czechoslovakia’s communist regime. To...
Prague - Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy was chosen EU president on Thursday mainly because neither EU member countries nor the European Commission and the European Parliament wanted a strong personality in the post,...
The Czech Republic this week kicked off celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. Back then, it was Czechoslovakian students who took the lead. Nowadays, the country's youth are ambivalent about...
White tiger Isabella, shown feeding on a rabbit, had been at the Prague zoo since 1994. ( Associated Press file photo ) PRAGUE — A rare white tiger was killed by two lions that managed to sneak into its enclosure in a Czech...
Prague - A jewelry designer and artist, she titled her 1990 brooch collection the Tension Series, which included a brooch that is in Washington D.C.'s Smithsonian American Art Museum. This same description could apply to this...
