Prague - Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, whose country has not ratifi

Prague - Czech military police began Monday to evict Greenpeace activists f

Prague  - More than a half of the Czech Republic's elementary and secondary schools Monday took part in a nationwide strike for higher salaries, the teachers' trade union said.

More than 130,000 teachers and school employees at nearly 6,000 schools joined the one-day strike to protest notoriously low wages, according to deputy head of school unions Marketa Vondrackova.

It was the second strike over long-term cash woes in the field for Education Minister Ondrej Liska. He was greeted to the job by protests on December 4, 2007, the very day he was appointed.

Teachers and other school employees complain that their already- low salaries have bought them less this year due to climbing prices.

Prague - Pakistani-born writer Tariq Ali, a leader of the 1960s anti-Vietnam-war movement in Britain, was quoted Monday criticizing iconic Soviet-era dissidents Vaclav Havel and Adam Michnik for w

Prague  - The Czech Republic's inflation rate remained steady year-on-year and unemployment rate fell in May, according to government data released Monday.