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Jiří Pernes, former head of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, who was dismissed this spring after a scandal concerning his alleged plagiarism, is actually no plagiarist, the Academy of Sciences' commission concluded, daily Právo reported yesterday.

The Czech Republic is prepared to provide asylum to several Cuban dissidents released on the basis of a diplomatic agreement between Cuba, Spain and the Catholic Church, Právo reported yesterday,

Doctors in Prague's Na Homolce hospital have succeeded in performing a unique robotic operation of aneurysm of three arteries.

Not sense of justice, but sanitary reasons prompted Czech authorities to open the graves of Germans murdered in the aftermath of World War Two, daily Lidové noviny reported yesterday.

Police officers, firefighters and other security force members plan to stage a demonstration in September against the Interior Ministry's planned austerity measures, police trade unions head Milan Štěpánek told ČTK yesterday.

Some 1.5 million flyers will be distributed at schools at the beginning of the school year, warning of harassment through SMSes and the Internet, Ivana Šatrová of the Foundation O2 organising the project along with the civic group Aisis, told journalists yesterday.

The Senate yesterday nominated two candidates, former constitutional judge Pavel Varvařovský and chairman of Prague Jewish Community František Banyai, for the vacant post of ombudsman.

Representatives of arms manufacturers oppose the closure of some Czech embassies, as decided on by the government yesterday, saying that the move may worsen foreign trade.

The government yesterday approved a national plan for the use of energy from renewable sources under which more than 13% of total national consumption should be covered by renewable energy sources by 2020, Industry and Trade Ministry Spokesman Pavel Vlček told ČTK yesterday.

ČSSD offered its former leader Jiří Paroubek the post of Czech ambassador to Austria but Paroubek rejected it, the news server iDnes reported yesterday.

The Czech military will provide 24 flight hours within NATO's Strategic Air Lift Interim Solution (SALIS) system worth CZK 30 million for the transport of humanitarian aid to the flood-hit Pakistan, the Czech government agreed yesterday.

The Czech government Wednesday approved a subsidy worth CZK 1.9bn for agriculture projects, Prime Minister Petr Nečas said at a press conference Wednesday.

The Czech Defence Ministry's budget in 2011 will probably be CZK 5 billion lower than this year and the sum designed for wages will drop by 10 percent as part of the austerity measures planned by the centre-right government.

South Bohemia councillors would like the numerous unused and dilapidated farm buildings such as cow and pig sheds and barns in the ČR to be reconstructed for new, mainly tourist purposes with the help of EU subsidies, daily Lidové noviny writes Wednesday.

The government of Petr Nečas and the regional governors, all opposition Social Democrats, failed to agree on budget issues yesterday, clashing over the scrapped 7.5% state contribution to EU Regional Operational Programmes.

The government yesterday decided to close down embassies in Congo, Venezuela, Kenya, Yemen and Costa Rica at the end of January 2011 as part of the Foreign Ministry's planned budget savings. The Czech general consulates in Bombay and Sydney will also be closed and replaced by offices of Czech embassies in the capitals of India and Australia. Social Democrats have criticised the steps, saying they would harm Czech export.

The Czech Environmental Inspection yesterday probed Neoma, a firm that dispatched a container that Brazilian authorities returned to Germany on Tuesday because they said it contained 22 tonnes of illegal contaminated waste.

TOP 09, a junior partner in the new centre-right government, seems united at first sight but in fact a behind-the-scenes battle for power is raging among its two rival wings, František Nachtigall writes in the editorial of the latest issue of the weekly Týden.

Plzeň's Faculty of Arts is the first faculty in continental Europe teach archaeology of modern era, i.e. of the 19th and 20th centuries.

President Václav Klaus has nominated former South Bohemia regional governor Jan Zahradník (Civic Democrats, ODS) and civic activist John Bok for ombudsman ahead of the second election.