Police charge four people with Vítkov arson attack
Nine men and three women were arrested on Thursday in north Moravia
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Czech author of unique war photos identified
Some unique photographs from World War I have found their author after almost 100 years, and four months on display at Prague Castle.
Havel to support the Green Party in October election
The party leader Ondřej Liška speaks to Aktuálně.cz about his meeting with former president
Twelve arrested over arson attack in Vítkov
The arrested are believed to be far right extremists
Home prices start growing slowly
The six-month fall in home prices is over. Data from some real estate agencies and property portals show that prices of flats and houses are slowly starting to grow again.
Airlines cannot afford to raise ticket prices
The anticipated take-off in raising airfares is being delayed
Election stalemate could deepen economic crisis
Former finance minister and Raiffeisenbank chief analyst Pavel Mertlík warns against the dangers of a budget stopgap after the October elections
Week in CzechNews 32/2009
The numbers of the jobless on the rise, Czech family compensated for injustices suffered and spying on people and more
Unemployment on the rise. Mainly due to graduates
The July jobless rate is highest since the fall of communism
Czech family to be compensated for injustices suffered
The Kořínek family is to receive CZK 500,000 in damages, Brno court rules
Swine flu vaccination available from November
The first doses of the vaccine will go to health and food industry workers, firemen etc.
Czech unemployed help make ghetto more liveable
A new law that came into effect recently requires that long-term unemployed work 20 hours a month otherwise their social bonus is lowered. In Ostrava it seems to be working.
Romanian gypsy crown prince dies in Prague hospital
A young Romanian boy who suffered serious injuries has died
Topolánek says ČSSD spied on him in Italy
Secretly taken pictures of the Civic Democrat leader on a luxury yacht with ČEZ chief were leaked by a former spy with alleged ties to the Social Democrats.
Gott's letter to Husák discovered in StB files
Declassified files yield a letter from 1971 in which the Czechoslovak pop music star tells the communist leader why he has emigrated to West Germany and under what conditions he would return.
Communists spied on Karel Gott's intimate life
A declassified file from 1971 shows a psychiatrist told the secret police the Czechoslovak pop music icon suffered from a sexual deviation. The discovery adds to speculations that Gott may have been blackmailed by the regime.
KDU-ČSL oppose new mosques in ČR
Party officials say another mosque in Brno might create tensions.