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Full Throttle to Hyperlocal News in Czech Republic

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Petr Sabata, World Association of Newspapers, Bertrand Pecquerie, Newsroom, Roman Gallo, Nase Adresa, Central Europe, Northern Bohemia, Online Publishing, China, News Café, Paris, Social Media, Web, World Editors Forum, Vietnam, Prague, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Hyperlocal News, 2015 Newsroom, Czech Republic, Futuroom, Death of Newspapers, Usti, Ppf, Media News
Magda Abu-Fadil

In the Czech Republic, "news cafés" are springing up, where people can relax, meet, down some brew, see their local paper being produced, mingle with editors and contribute copy.

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Spider On Pope (PICTURE, VIDEO): Spider Crawls On Pope Benedict's Face During Speech In Prague

AP | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

Read More: Photo, Spider, Catholicism, Prague Visit, Travel, Catholic, Prague, Pope, Pictures, Pope Benedict XVI, Czech Republic, Slideshow, World News

PRAGUE (AP) — President Barack Obama had his fly. Now Pope Benedict XVI has his spider. A large arachnid appeared on the pope's white robes as ...

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UN to give big boost to nuclear free world

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 09.24.2009 | Home

Read More: Prague, Islamic Republic of Iran, Pakistan, Jordan, North Korea, Israel, India, Home News

With U.S. President Barack Obama presiding, the U.N. Security Council is expected to give a big political boost to long-stalled efforts to move toward a world without nuclear weapons.

Diplomats said the U.N.'s most powerful body will vote unanimously Thursday on a draft resolution calling for stepped up efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, promote disarmament and "reduce the risk of nuclear terrorism."

Obama is the first U.S. president to chair a summit-level meeting of the council and he will be joined by 14 other world leaders, U.S. deputy ambassador Alejandro Wolff said.

Obama aides see the resolution that will be adopted at the meeting as an endorsement of the president's entire nuclear agenda, as laid out in his April speech in Prague in which he declared his commitment to "a world without nuclear weapons."

The president called in that speech for the slashing of U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, adoption of the treaty banning all nuclear tests, an international fuel bank to better safeguard nuclear material, and negotiations on a new treaty that "verifiably" ends the production of fissile materials used to make atomic weapons.

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Obama-led UN council backs broad nuclear agenda

AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 09.25.2009 | Home

Read More: Prague, Islamic Republic of Iran, Pakistan, Jordan, North Korea, Israel, India, Home News

With U.S. President Barack Obama presiding, the U.N. Security Council is expected to give a big political boost to long-stalled efforts to move toward a world without nuclear weapons.

Diplomats said the U.N.'s most powerful body will vote unanimously Thursday on a draft resolution calling for stepped up efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, promote disarmament and "reduce the risk of nuclear terrorism."

Obama is the first U.S. president to chair a summit-level meeting of the council and he will be joined by 14 other world leaders, U.S. deputy ambassador Alejandro Wolff said.

Obama aides see the resolution that will be adopted at the meeting as an endorsement of the president's entire nuclear agenda, as laid out in his April speech in Prague in which he declared his commitment to "a world without nuclear weapons."

The president called in that speech for the slashing of U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, adoption of the treaty banning all nuclear tests, an international fuel bank to better safeguard nuclear material, and negotiations on a new treaty that "verifiably" ends the production of fissile materials used to make atomic weapons.

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Obama Missile Shield Plan Draws Rancor, Relief In Eastern Europe

AP | KAREL JANICEK and WILLIAM J. KOLE | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Europe, Prague, Obama Missile Shield, Poland, Us Missile Shield, Obama Missile Shield Plan, World News

PRAGUE — Scuttling a missile defense shield in the Czech Republic and Poland helps smooth relations between the U.S. and Russia. But at what pri...

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Prague: Monstertown

David Parker | Posted 11.15.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Winnie the Pooh, Travel, Prague, Europe, Comedy, Central Europe, Czech Republic, Comedy News
David Parker

To avoid being robbed of all my korunas and left for dead on a Mala Strana sidewalk, I ducked into a bookstore. In the window, two books were prominently displayed: Mein Kampf and Winnie the Pooh.

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Starbucks Is Pulling Back In The US, But It's Growing In Central Europe

GlobalPost | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Starbucks Explosion, Prague Coffee, Coffee Chain, Turkish Coffee, Czech Coffee, Starbucks, Starbucks Growing in Europe, Starbucks Europe, Prague, Seattle, Europe, Coffee, Czech Republic, World News

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - In a country where people are used to drinking their unfiltered Turkish coffees in small ceramic cups, Starbucks first 18 mon...

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Top 10 Places I Want to Travel to Before I Die

Maria Rodale | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Top Ten List, Travel, Australia, Morocco, Austria, India, Czech Republic, Mongolia, Vienna, Prague, Jerusalem-Israel, Israel, Sydney-Australia, Living News
Maria Rodale

I am going to share my list of the top 10 places I want to go to before I die (in no particular order, although I hope dying comes last).

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Holocaust Survivors, Jewish Groups Gather In Prague For Stolen Assets Conference

AP | KAREL JANICEK | Posted 07.27.2009 | World

Read More: Genocide, Holocaust, Nazis, Holocaust Assets, Prague, Nazis Art, Holocaust Assets Prague, Czech Republic, Nazis Stolen Assets, World News

PRAGUE — Holocaust survivors, Jewish groups and experts gathered in Prague on Friday to assess efforts to return property and possessions stolen...

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Video: Family photo shows up on Czech billboard

MSNBC | MSNBC | Posted 07.13.2009 | Home

Read More: Prague, Home News

June 12: A Missouri family is shocked to see their Christmas card photo show up in an billboard, advertising a Prague, Czechoslovakia grocery store. K...

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Jason Linkins

PANIC! Missouri Congressman Warns Of Imminent Nuclear Threat To Seattle (And The Rest Of Your Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Seattle-Washington, Japan, North Korea, Prague, Cairo, Dropping, Media News

CORRECTION: The headline of this post originally said Akin was from Alabama. ARGH, he is from Missouri. I don't know why I said he was from Alabama....

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EU To Combat Latin American Drug Trade

Huffington Post | Posted 06.14.2009 | World

Read More: Us Drug War, South America, Europe, Drug War, Latin America, European Union, Mexico, War on Drugs, Prague, Eu-Mexico, Gil Kerlikowske Drug Czar, Central America, Prague Czech Republic, Us Drug Czar, Gil Kerlikowske, Mexico Drugs, Mexico Drug Wars, Czech Republic, Eu-Latin America, World News

The European Union has agreed to expand its effort in combating drug trafficking and violence in Central and South America, reports AFP. The region i...

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Classic for Service

First Lady of Style | First Lady of Style | Posted 06.12.2009 | Home

Read More: Prague, Germany, Home News

The First Lady spoke to the Corporation for National and Community Service this afternoon. She wore a basic top and a black full, pleated skirt wi...

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The Golem Seeing Resurgence In Czech Republic

New York Times | Posted 06.11.2009 | World

Read More: Religion, The Golem, Judaism, Golem, Foreign Affairs, Old-New Synagogue, Prague, Advocacy, Czech Republic, World News

They say the Golem, a Jewish giant with glowing eyes and supernatural powers, is lurking once again in the attic of the Old-New Synagogue here....

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EU Seeking Energy Independence From Russia

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 06.08.2009 | Home

Read More: Prague, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Russia, Austria, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Home News

The European Union and Turkey gave fresh political impetus on Friday to the ambitious Nabucco pipeline project, although key Central Asian gas supplie...

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2,870 Mayors for Peace: Does Yours Belong?

Jim Luce | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weaponry, Atomic Bomb Dome, Delhi, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, United Nations, Takeshi Araki, Sri Lanka, Boston, World Peace, Thought Leaders, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Denver, Global Citizens, Seattle, Nagasaki, 2020 Vision Campaign, Prague, Mayors for Peace, Tanzania, Tadatoshi Akiba, Aaron Tovish, Philadelphia, Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, Santo Domingo, Mathew Luce, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, Haiti, Japan, New York, Hiroshima Peace Park., Federation of the American Scientists, Tipping Point, Thousand Origami Cranes, San Francisco, Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol, Orphans International Worldwide, Senbazru, Lome, Galle, Moshi, Manado, Jacmel, World News
Jim Luce

It is possible to disarm all nuclear weaponry by 2020. It is do-able. For the sake of our orphans, for the sake of your own families' children, let us commit ourselves to believing this.

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David Duke, Former KKK Leader, Detained In Prague

AP | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Read More: Kkk, Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, David Duke Ku Klux Klan, David Duke Prague, Czech Republic, Prague, Prague Czech Republic, Europe, Central Europe, Holocaust Deniers, Holocaust Denial, World News

PRAGUE — Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke was detained by police in the Czech Republic on Friday on suspicion of denying the Holocaust. Po...

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Czech Republic: Economic Crisis Leaves Migrants With Few Options

GlobalPost | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

Read More: Global Financial Crisis, Foreign Affairs, Czech Migrants, Prague, Migrants, Migrant Labor, Crech Republic, Czech Republic, World News

PRAGUE -- When the global demand for consumer goods tumbled, production and assembly line jobs here evaporated. The consequences for some migrants fro...

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Pakistan: Obama's Achilles' Heel

Sunil Adam | Posted 05.22.2009 | Home

Read More: Islam, Afpak, Pakistan, Muslim Countries, Nonproliferation, India, Obama, Afghanistan, Cuba, Terrorism, Foreign Policy, Prague, Home News
Sunil Adam

Pakistan is an unconventional problem that demands an unorthodox response from an unassuming president.

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David Duke Banned By Czech University From Giving Speech

AP | Posted 05.22.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Affairs, David Duke Czech University, David Duke Czech Republic, David Duke Speech, David Duke, Advocacy, David Duke Speech Cancelled, Prague, Czech Republic, World News

PRAGUE — Prague's Charles University says it has banned a lecture by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Duke is planning a trip to the Czec...

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Turkey: Not the Usual Geopolitical Sandwich

William Bradley | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Britain, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkey, Bosporus, Afghanistan, France, Pakistan, George W. Bush, European Union, Prague, G-20, London, Istanbul, Nato, Barack Obama, Germany, Dick Cheney, Iraq, Ankara, Jihadists, Cold War, Erdogan, Islam, Winston Churchill, Byzantine Empire, Neoconservative, Ottoman Empire, Balkans, Mohammed Cartoons, Al Qaeda, Taliban, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Roman Empire, Soviet Union, 100 Days, World News
William Bradley

Obama seems to see Turkey, which has friendly relations with Israel, as potentially a much stronger partner than any other NATO nation, perhaps even Britain.

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Obama Prague Speech On Nuclear Weapons: FULL TEXT

Huffington Post | Posted 05.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama Czech Republic Speech, Barack Obama Prague Speech, Barack Obama, President Obama, Barack Obama Nuclear Weapons Speech, Prague, Politics News

Below is the speech President Obama delivered in Prague. Text is as delivered. Thank you so much. Thank you for this wonderful welcome. Thank you t...

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Re-Setting the Geopolitical Table: How Obama's Big Trip Is Going

William Bradley | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Angela Merkel, Britain, Turkey, France, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Prague, Vladimir Putin, London, Gordon Brown, Nato, Barack Obama, Poland, Germany, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Czech Republic, Iraq, Nicolas Sarkozy, Ankara, Dmitri Medvedev, Anti-Missile Shield, G-20, World News
William Bradley

The G-20 went well. Not as well as advertised, which is par for most any political course, but much better than most of the Gs -- 7, 8, or 20.

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Prague '09: Swan Song for Star Wars

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Star Wars, European Missile Defense, Npt, Missile Defense, Foreign Affairs, Non-Proliferation Treaty, Obama Prague, Obama Administration, Nuclear Proliferation, Prague, Obama Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, World News
Lorelei Kelly

Our nation needs a twelve-step program to recover from a Cold War addiction. Cutting European Missile Defense and helping the communities impacted convert to other security priorities is step one.

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The Onion Wins a Peabody Without Even Trying

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.03.2009 | Home

Read More: New York-New York, Prague, Home News

The Peabodys, administered out of the University of Georgia, date back to 1941, and honor "the most outstanding achievements in electronic media, incl...

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