Czech Republic News

Rozlyn Papa's name has been cleared once and for all. After rumors of an alleged sex tape surfaced weeks ago, the former Bachelor contestant has been denying that she ever made an explicit video.

In this Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 photo, a view of the legendary medieval Charles Bridge is seen, in... In this Wednesday, Feb.

Top Czech officials discussed on Monday NATO's request for reinforcement of the Czech military mission in Afghanistan, the CTK news agency reported.

PRAGUE , Czech Republic They stepped outside the moss-covered stone-church in cadence with the white flakes falling languorously from a mint blue sky.

Protector by Ales Najbrt Saturday won the Czech Lion award for the best Czech film of 2009 and it also received the awards for best screenplay and director.

Armenia's Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian today received Vojteck Filip, Vice-Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament.

Visitors look at plants and animals made out of plastic bottles that are displayed at the Pet Tropicana exhibition at the Fata Morgana Tropical Greenhouse at the botanical bardens in Prague, Czech Republic.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen failed on Friday to win over Czechs opposed to deploying more troops in Afghanistan.

A spring of strife looms as transport workers threatened a strike, before stepping back, and other unions consider industrial action.

The Czech government has taken its battle against homophobia to school classrooms in an effort aimed at raising awareness of homosexuality and the problem of bullying based on sexual orientation.

A court in Hradec Kralove decided last week that amnesties apply to Ludmila Brozova-Polednova, a former Czechoslovak prosecutor convicted of judicial murder of democratic politician Milada Horakova in 1950, on the basis of which she could be released from prison.

Prague- A cross-border defence-contract scandal has rocked the Czech Republic just months before the country's general election.

Public Affairs , a rising Czech party with promising voter preferences ahead of the May polls, will inform the media on another suspicious deal by the Defence Ministry, allegedly involving minister Martin Bartak along with the Omnipol and Penta companies, VV head Radek John told CTK Wednesday.

The Belgian army will stage a two-week exercise for hundreds of soldiers at the Hradiste Czech military training grounds in the Karlovy Vary region, starting this week, according to the Defence Ministry information.

A check focusing on extremism in the Czech military revealed a soldier who had tattoos of Nazi symbols on his body, the commercial Nova TV reported Wednesday, adding that the man has been accused.

The Czech Republic and neighbouring Austria share centuries of common history but in recent times relations between the two states have often been strained.

Polish sailors did not return the dog rescued from an ice block in the open sea, some 24 kilometres from the Polish shore, in late January to his alleged Czech owner Vaclav Bartos, the daily Pravo reports Thursday.

Strasbourg/Prague Feb 25 - The European Court of Human Rights Thursday decided that the Czech Republic should pay compensation of 2000 euros to British national Ronald David Crabtree who complained about Czech authorities having kept him in custody unrightfully.

Of course, Czech authorities will be investigating the suspected corruption around the purchase of Pandur APCs from the Austrian company Steyr, but the case will never be cleared up and it will fade away after the elections as usually, Jiri Hanak predicts in the daily Pravo today.

Pupils at primary and secondary schools around the country will receive a new comic book soon; it's called My World and it's all about a Chechen refugee struggling to adjust to his new life in the Czech Republic, including dealing with prejudice and hostility.