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• Man geeft toe relikwie in beton te hebben gegoten nadat hij deze uit de kerk had meegenomen omdat hij tegen de tentoonstelling ervan was, aldus de politie. • De Tsjechische politie heeft de schedel van een 13e-eeuwse heilige teruggevonden, dagen nadat deze was gestolen uit een kerk in het noorden van het land. • De politie meldde dat ze een verdachte hebben gearresteerd, die toegaf de schedel van Saint Zdislava of Lemberk op dinsdag uit een glazen schrijn in de basiliek van St Lawrence and St Zdislava in het stadje Jablonné v Podještědí te hebben gestolen. Lees verder...

• Verdachte werd op korrelige bewakingsfoto gezien terwijl hij met de schedel tussen de kerkbanken door rende, aldus de politie

Exclusive: Sev.en Global Investments could turn state-owned businesses into Britain’s biggest steelmakerBusiness live – latest updatesThe owner of the UK’s largest electric steelworks has said the government should find a single buyer for British Steel and Speciality Steel UK (SSUK), a move that would create the country’s biggest steelmaker.Sev.en Global Investments, owned by the Czech billionaire Pavel Tykač, said it not only plans to invest £100m in the UK – mainly in the electric arc steelworks in Cardiff it bought last year – but also has the ability to invest “hundreds of millions of pounds” more in Britain under its 7 Steel brand. Continue reading...

• U.S. Men's National Team fell 3-2 in overtime to Czechia on April 22 in preliminary round of IIHF World Championship. • Goals by American forwards kept game close, but Czechia netted winner late. • Team USA advances to face next opponent Friday, aiming for quarterfinal berth.

Government aims to move TV and radio funding under state control, which critics say undermines independenceJournalists at the Czech Republic’s public broadcasters have said they are prepared to go on strike unless the government of the billionaire prime minister, Andrej ​Babiš, backs down on its plan to scrap licence fees and move funding under state control.In what the journalists see as a threat to their independence, the government wants to replace the current system, in which households pay fees directly to public service media, with direct funding from the state budget. “Licence fees are cancelled,” the culture minister, Oto Klempíř, declared last week. Continue reading...