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How to call Dominican Republic Dominican Republic from Czech Republic|

Czech Republic town of Brno is home to hundreds of modernist buildings, including the city's only functional synagogue, built by architect Otto Eisler in 1934.|

Men who played in two amateur baseball leagues in the Dominican Republic in 1950s and ’60s gather each September since 1985 in an old-timers game.|

Colorful sticky notes adorn a wall in Hong Kong expressing support for the democracy demonstrators of Occupy Central, echoing the Lennon Wall in Prague, which has responded with its own messages.|

Czech Republic grants political asylum to Oleksandr Tymoshenko, husband of jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia V Tymoshenko.|

Czech Republic bans the sale of liquor containing 20 percent or higher alcohol content after at least 20 people are killed and dozens of others seriously injured from consuming methanol-tainted spirits; poisonings raise questions about the effectiveness of European Union and Czech safeguards against bootleg alcohol, which has plagued the country's market for decades.|

Czech sculptor David Cerny installs a 30-foot-high, plastic, purple hand with a raised middle finger aimed at Prague Castle, seat of current Czech Pres Milos Zeman on the even of general elections; Cerny says the sculpture is meant to signify his anger with the state of politics in the country.|

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.|

Orphee wins Czech Republic's storied steeplechase race Velka Pardubicka; another horse is euthanized after falling at the perilous Taxis Ditch, brutal trench that has claimed lives of 24 horses since 1927; in 124 runnings of the Velka, there has never been a race in which all the horses that began the race were able to finish it.|

The Czech Republic claimed its third Fed Cup title in four years after the Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova defeated Angelique Kerber of Germany, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-4, in Prague on Sunday.|

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

Officials investigating an explosion in Prague that killed Jamal al-Jamal, Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic, find illegal weapons in search of the Palestinian mission; police say likely cause of the blast was a security device on a safe that had apparently been moved from the old Palestinian mission to the new mission.|

Vatican removes papal envoy Archbishop Josef Wesolowski from his post in Dominican Republic and authorities there say they will look into rumors of child sexual abuse.|

Pres Milos Zeman of Czech Republic appoints a new center-left government, ending a protracted period of political paralysis that has destabilized the country; freshly installed Prime Min Bohuslav Sobotka has pledged to shepherd country toward stability.|

Vatican removes papal envoy Archbishop Josef Wesolowski from his post in Dominican Republic and authorities there say they will look into rumors of child sexual abuse.|

This was the maiden sally of the United States at the U.N. Human Rights Council, a resolution under the rubric of "promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development." Phew! The measure was introduced by the U.S. and by Egypt, which, of course, has a long and sterling record as an insurer and defender of civilized liberties.|

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