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Karel Janicek

File: A view of a MIG-29 fighter jet, at the 11th SIAF International Aviation Day at the Malacky-Kuchyna Air Base, in Kuchyna, Slovakia, August 27, 2022. (Jaroslav Novak/TASR via AP)
March 17, 2023, 3:25 pm
Slovakia, after Poland, agrees to supply Ukraine with Soviet-era fighter jets
PM Eduard Heger declares Slovakia on ‘right side of history’ as Kremlin warns NATO over move: ‘May bring more misfortune to Ukraine’
By Karel Janicek
Czech President Milos Zeman speaks at the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 26, 2018. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)
March 8, 2023, 8:53 pm
Czech President Milos Zeman, known for pro-Israel views, departs office
Polarizing head of state increasingly held euroskeptic, pro-Russian views, but was viewed favorably for support of Jewish state
By Karel Janicek
A Ludwig van Beethoven's music manuscript, is seen in the Moravian Museum's collection in Brno on Nov. 30 2022, in Brno, Slovakia (Šálek Václav/CTK via AP)
December 3, 2022, 2:05 pm
Czech museum to return original Beethoven score to family that fled Holocaust
Petschek family tried, but failed, to send handwritten manuscript abroad by mail in March 1939 during the Nazi occupation, drawing the attention of the Gestapo
By Karel Janicek
Firefighters throw water on fire in the Ceske Svycarsko (Czech Switzerland) National Park, above the village Hrensko, Czech Republic, Monday July 25, 2022. The fire broke out on Sunday and started spreading on Monday as the wind rose. (Hajek Vojtech/CTK via AP)
July 26, 2022, 3:11 pm
Firefighters battle German, Czech wildfires as locals are forced to evacuate
Seven firefighters injured in the Elbe-Elster district as hundreds battle wildfires across eastern Germany; Czech officials visit border area, say situation ‘very serious’
By Karel Janicek and Kirsten Grieshaber
Pope Francis, flanked by Slovakian President Zuzana Caputova, right, attends a welcoming ceremony at the presidential palace in Bratislava, Slovakia, Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
September 13, 2021, 2:12 pm
Pope Francis to visit Holocaust memorial in Bratislava
A day after his trip to Hungary, the pope is slated meet the Slovakia Jewish community and atone for Catholic complicity in World War II-era racial laws and crimes
By Nicole Winfield and Karel Janicek
Participants of a conference organized by the Germany-based foundation European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative (EJCI) watch a drone take off over a Jewish cemetery near the village of Reca, Slovakia, February 26, 2019. (Petr David Josek/AP)
February 27, 2019, 6:20 pm
Drones launched to help preserve Europe’s Jewish cemeteries
Nonprofit organization plans to map boundaries of 1,500 endangered burial grounds in Slovakia, Greece, Moldova, Lithuania and Ukraine so they can be properly enclosed
By Karel Janicek
Workers adjust repaired parts of the famed astronomical clock at the Old Town Hall in Prague, Czech Republic, September 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
September 26, 2018, 4:50 pm
Prague’s astronomical clock returns with restored beauty
Repeatedly but badly repaired over the years, 608-year-old clock back in working order in city’s famed Old Town Square
By Karel Janicek
The book titled 'Mikne Avram - Peculium Abrae' is displayed at the Prague's Jewish Museum in Prague, Czech Republic, January 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
January 16, 2018, 9:52 pm
Hebrew grammar book from 16th century returns to Prague
‘Mikne Avram – Peculium Abrae’ donated anonymously to Jewish Museum by most recent owner after it was withdrawn from auction
By Karel Janicek
People take part in an anti extreme right rally in reaction to results of parliamentary elections in Bratislava on March 7, 2016. The neo-Nazi People's Party Our Slovakia (LSNS) led by Marian Kotleba gained 8 percent of the votes. (AFP / VLADIMIR SIMICEK)
November 18, 2016, 8:17 pm
Slovakia comes to terms with proudly neo-Nazi party
People’s Party, which holds almost 10% of seats in Parliament, openly admires country’s puppet state during WWII
By Karel Janicek
A memorial at the site of the former Nazi concentration camp at Lety in the Czech Republic. (Wikipedia/Miraceti/free use)
September 7, 2016, 7:27 am
Czechs work to move pig farm from former Nazi camp
Roma activists seek to clear the site, where 327 died while others were shipped off to Auschwitz
By Karel Janicek
In this picture taken on Monday Oct. 26, 2015, Tomas Jelinek looks at a tombstone that was used as a doorstep to a hen house in efforts to restore a former Jewish cemetery in Prostejov, Czech Republic. (AP Photo/Petr Josek)
December 2, 2015, 6:47 am
In small Czech village, lost Jewish graveyard unearthed
In Prostejov, researchers piece together tombstones destroyed by the Nazis, which include relatives of author Stefan Zweig, philosopher Edmund Husserl
By Karel Janicek
Investigators outside the residence of Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic, Jamel al-Jamal, who died after an explosion in his diplomatic residence in Prague on January 1, 2014. (AP/CTK, Katerina Sulova)
January 3, 2014, 9:09 am
PA diplomat’s daughter says Prague death suspicious
‘The official Palestinian account is baseless,’ says daughter of Jamel al-Jamal, who died in explosion at residence Wednesday
By Karel Janicek
A file photo of Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic Jamel Al-Jamal, who was killed in an explosion in his residence in Prague-Suchdol, Thursday, January 1, 2014 (photo credit: AP/CTK, Krumphanzl Michal)
January 1, 2014, 3:10 pm
Palestinian ambassador in Prague killed in blast
Explosion reportedly occurs when envoy, Jamal al-Jamal, opens a safe; Jamal’s wife stricken with shock
By Karel Janicek
April 4, 2013, 1:49 pm
EU flag flies over Prague castle, not all happy
New president Milos Zeman likened to a puppet leader installed by the Nazis
By Karel Janicek
November 29, 2012, 12:03 pm
Jewish groups struggle to regain Nazi-seized property
Prague conference calls on European governments to fulfill pledges to return real estate or provide fair compensation
By Karel Janicek
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