Czech campaigners call for end to cruel carp Christmas tradition
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As large round fish tanks crop up along the pavements of the Czech Republic this week animal campaigners are calling for an end to the Christmas traditional practice of slaughtering millions of carp in public.
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Science & environment: Campaigners demand action to curb shipment of millions of animals around the world for slaughter
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A groping Santa, a drunken car chase, a bloody punchout. Festivities in Antarctica got a little out of hand this Christmas.
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Should zookeepers intervene when a mom wants to eat her offspring? That's the question being debated by Germany's polar bear lovers
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Amnesty International launches a campaign urging Belarus and Uzbekistan to stop using the death penalty.
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PARIS, Oct 24  - A French Jewish student group that planned a hard-hitting campaign against anti-Semitism using the figures of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary on Sunday agreed to tone down its message.
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BRATISLAVA, Dec 1 (IPS) - Environmentalists have attacked the government over  plans for redevelopment of the country's largest national  park after one of the biggest ecological catastrophes in the area  in the last hundred years.
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Six years later, the Czech Republic has found how bitter the taste of Nagano can be. In a game very similar to their shoot-out win over Canada in the semi-final at the 2002 Olympics
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A European watchdog expresses concern about the treatment of sex offenders in the Czech Republic.
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CHRUCH leaders united today to condemn a Christmas nativity tableau depicting pop star Kylie Minogue as an angel at the birth of Christ.
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A Christmas grotto which has replaced Santa with a man with horns angers church leaders in York.
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An art prank  by a Czech collective has highlighted an old Czech tradition of tomfoolery that is a particular matter of national cultural pride.
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Home Secretary John Reid has waded into a seasonal row over politically correct attempts to ban festive decorations and even the word &quot;Christmas&quot;, branding the whole subject &quot;mad&quot;.
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SCOTLANDâS beleaguered white-fish fleet was last night facing another end-of-year battle for economic survival in the face of a European Commission demand for trawling to be outlawed in more than 10,000 square miles of the North Sea and west-coast waters
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"The possible privatization of Budvar is really not on the agenda now"  Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic -- Just the thought alone is enough to make a Czech patriot cry in his beer. via Springfield News Leader
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PRAGUE The former Czech president, Vaclav Havel, and about 100 other international figures have signed a petition accusing President Vladimir Putin of Russia of using the Beslan hostage drama to undermine democracy.
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PARIS  - A Jewish group said Sunday it plans to "modify" an anti-Semitism publicity campaign that showed images of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary after the advertisements drew negative reactions.