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Former Czech Republic Prime Min Milos Zeman and current Foreign Min Karel Schwarzenberg will face each other in country's presidential runoff, in first direct popular vote for head of state in country.|

Adam B Bartos, Czech journalist running in May elections for European Parliament, has campaigned on anti-Semitic sentiments and anti-European Union messages; parties outside the mainstream are expected to win as many as quarter of the Parliament's 750 seats, indicating rise of far-right leaders.|

Czech Prime Min Petr Necas says he has no intention of resigning despite raid by organized crime unit on government offices in Prague and arrest of several officials; motives for arrests remain unclear, but raid threatens to bring down center-right coalition government already weakened by series of corruption scandals.|

Milos Zeman, former leftist prime minister and economist, is elected president of Czech Republic, becoming country's first popularly elected president.|

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Leaders from around the world join thousands in the Czech Republic to mourn playwright, dissident and former President Vaclav Havel at a procession and funeral mass in Prague; turnout is an emotional outpouring of affection that largely eluded him in his later life.|

Czech Senate votes to accuse departing Pres Vaclav Klaus of high treason, largely symbolic rebuke of Klaus, who has often polarized Czech society; decision to forward treason complaint to country's Constitutional Court was prompted by amnesty granted by Klaus, freeing more than 6,000 inmates and halting prosecutions of some prominent business executives and officials charged with fraud.|

Saturday Profile of Rev Tomas Halik, prominent public intellectual in Czech Republic who was leader in fight against Soviet communism in late 1980s; Halik has become critic of Russian Pres Vladimir Putin, condemning his actions in Ukraine and pushing back against conservative voices who hold up Putin as anti-European Union role model.|

Pres Milos Zeman of Czech Republic swears in leftist interim government after corruption and spying scandal that forced Prime Min Petr Necas to resign; confirmation of leftist loyalist and former finance minister Jiri Rusnok as prime minister is done in open defiance of main parties in Parliament.|

The Czech Republic assumes the rotating presidency of the European Union, the first former Soviet bloc country to lead the group of 495 million Europeans.|

Op-Ed article by history scholar Derek Sayer examines political turmoil in Czech Republic in wake of corruption scandal engulfing Prime Min Petr Necas; holds that it is striking that only Necas's government has collapsed, not country's political system or its democratic ideology.|

Czech Prime Min Petr Necas says he has no intention of resigning despite raid by organized crime unit on government offices in Prague and arrest of several officials; motives for arrests remain unclear, but raid threatens to bring down center-right coalition government already weakened by series of corruption scandals.|

Czech government agrees to pay billions of dollars in compensation to churches for property seized by the former Communist government.|

Czech government agrees to pay billions of dollars in compensation to churches for property seized by the former Communist government.|

Czech police say that Jamal al-Jamal, Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic who was killed Jan 1 in an explosion in his new Prague residence, was probably holding an explosive device when it detonated.|

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