The Czech Republic has a tiny Muslim minority of 0.2 percent and yet they have been at the receiving end of increasing hate crimes.
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The shooting inside a waiting room is the worst such incident to take place in the Czech Republic since 2015 when a man shot eight people dead at a restaurant in Uhersky Brod.
The top Czech prosecutor renewed fraud charges against Prime Minister Andrej Babis suspected of abusing special EU small business subsidies to create his luxury Stork Nest resort and farm near Prague.
Communist authorities in then-Czechoslovakia banned Kundera's books and stripped him of citizenship after the publication of a book in which he called then-Czechoslovak president Gustav Husak "the president of forgetting."
The exhibition, the first of that kind here, marks the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution.
Turkey, France and Czech Republic join Belgium, Italy, Poland, Russia, Spain and Ukraine as the teams who have qualified for the tournament that will be staged across 12 European countries from 12 June to 12 July 2020.
The visit drew ire from rights activists and leaders of the opposition as the ruling BJP has barred foreign journalists and independent groups from visiting Kashmir, where a clampdown on dissent has continued since August 5.
The opposition failed to reach the 101 votes needed in the 200-member parliament to topple the cabinet, with 85 lawmakers voting no confidence in the cabinet, and 85 voting against.
Organisers claim more than 250,000 people gathered to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Andrej Babis amidst a corruption scandal.
Biggest anti-government protest in Prague since 1989 pro-democratic Velvet Revolution under way as Czechs ask billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis to step down.
Hundreds of thousands expected at a rally on Sunday to urge populist billionaire Czech Republic PM Andrej Babis to resign.
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