Star ratings are by Seattle Times movie reviewers, freelancers or wire services (for full reviews, search seattletimes.com ). "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" (PG): In the sequel to "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," the Pevensie siblings (William...
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Consumers fearful of rising energy prices have now been offered a choice by the Czech energy giant ČEZ: the possibility of freezing electricity prices through 2010. Not long ago ČEZ came under fire for an announced 10 percent electricity price...
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Central Europe Activ writes on the upcoming Czech EU presidency; The Reference Frame writes on president Václav Klaus and the Czech stance on the Lisbon Treaty; Peter Martinovic voices his support for the U.S. missile shield; The Journeys of Captain...
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The new Senate is still expected to approve the plan to build a tracking radar southwest of Prague as part of a US system to protect the United States and Europe against missiles from countries such as Iran. The ruling...
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The Czech Republic will not ratify the Lisbon Treaty this year, but it might do so in the first quarter of 2009, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek told reporters after a meeting with his visiting Finnish counterpart Matti Vanhanen on...
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Results are expected Saturday in Czech elections to fill regional assemblies and one-third of the Senate. The two-day election allowed voters to cast their ballots on Friday and Saturday. Polls had suggested voters might punish the governing Civic Democratic Party...
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According to Czech media, the judges could announce their opinion in late October or early November. But the decision would not in itself secure speedy ratification. Mr Topolanek is facing critics of the treaty in his own Civic Democratic party...
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Czech senior ruling Civic Democrat (ODS) first deputy head Pavel Bem, Prague Mayor, has decided to run against Prime Minister and ODS chairman Mirek Topolanek at the party's December congress to elect new leadership, Bem informed CTK via a text...
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As a new president takes office in Washington, the Czech Republic assumes the rotating presidency of the European Union, the first former Soviet bloc country to lead the group of 470 million citizens, and during one of the worst economic...
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Life appears to be imitating art in a drama convulsing the Czech Republic: the charge that when he was a 21-year-old student, Milan Kundera, now one of eastern Europe's most celebrated writers, denounced a Western intelligence agent to Czechoslovakia's communist police....
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