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In this file photo taken on Thursday, March 14, 2019, Slavia's Ibrahim-Benjamin Traore, left, celebrates scoring the decisive goal during their Europa League Round of 16 second leg soccer match between Slavia Praha and Sevilla in Prague, Czech Republic. The top two soccer leagues in the Czech Republic are set to restart on May 25, 2020, as the country's has been easing its restrictive measures adopted by the government to contain the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

Top Czech soccer leagues set to restart May 25

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The Olympic rings are seen Monday, March 30, 2020, in Tokyo. The Tokyo Olympics will open next year in the same time slot scheduled for this year's games. Tokyo organizers said Monday the opening ceremony will take place on July 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Inspired by Olympic delay, track meet in Prague to go ahead

By KAREL JANICEK - Associated Press

In this handout photo provided by the Turkish Defense Ministry, Serbian officials unload Personal Protection Equipment donated by Turkey to help the country combat the new coronavirus outbreak, in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death (Turkish Defence Ministry via AP)

China’s ‘mask diplomacy’ wins support in Eastern Europe

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC - Associated Press

A healthcare worker attends to a COVID-19 patient in an intensive care unit (ICU) at the General University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic, Tuesday, April 7, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Amid pandemic, Czech intensive care ward is still half-full

By KAREL JANICEK and PETR DAVID JOSEK - Associated Press

Supermarket employees distribute protective masks to customers in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, April 1, 2020. In Austria protective masks should be worn in shops from Wednesday on. The Austrian government has moved to restrict freedom of movement for people, in an effort to slow the onset of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Austrian, Czech officials plan to ease some virus measures

By GEIR MOULSON and KAREL JANICEK - Associated Press

Czech Republic's Prime Minister Andrej Babis arrives for an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. After almost two years of sparring, the EU will be discussing the bloc's budget to work out Europe's spending plans for the next seven years. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Conflict of interest fears cast shadow over EU budget talks

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

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By Compiled by PAUL MONTELLA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019 file photo, people embrace outside the Ostrava Teaching Hospital after a shooting incident in Ostrava, Czech Republic. The death toll in a hospital shooting in the Czech Republic reached seven on Thursday, Dec. 12 after a women critically wounded in the attack died. A 42-year-old attacker opened fire in a waiting room in the University hospital in the eastern city of Ostrava, 350 kilometers (220 miles) east of Prague on Tuesday, killing six adult patients and wounding three other. (Jaroslav Ozana/CTK via AP, file)

Death toll in hospital shooting in Czech Republic rises to 7

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The Turow lignite coal mine near the town of Bogatynia, Poland, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. The Turow lignite coal mine in Poland has an impact on the environment and communities near the border of three neighboring countries, the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland. Plans to further expand the huge open pit mine have caused alarm among residents who fear things might get even worse. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Massive Polish coal mine sparks international dispute

By KAREL JANICEK - Associated Press

Refugees and migrants take part in a protest outside an overcrowded refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos, on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. Overcrowding at island camps has continued to worsen despite an effort by the Greek government to move more asylum seekers to the mainland. (AP Photo/Michael Svarnias)

Legal opinion: Poland, Hungary, Czechs broke EU migrant law

By LORNE COOK and SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

Refugees and migrants take part in a protest outside an overcrowded refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos, on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. Overcrowding at island camps has continued to worsen despite an effort by the Greek government to move more asylum seekers to the mainland. (AP Photo/Michael Svarnias)

The Latest: Hungary: Ruling party urges resistance on quotas

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FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2009 file photo, the sun sets behind the St. Vitus cathedral in Prague, Czech Republic. The Czech Republic’s top court on Tuesday Oct. 15, 2019, dismissed legislation to tax the compensation that the country's churches receive from the state for property seized by the former Communist regime. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

Czech top court dismisses taxation of church restitution

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018 file photo, the monument of Soviet World War II commander Ivan Stepanovic Konev is pictured in Prague, Czech Republic. A Prague district is set to remove a statue of a Soviet World War II commander Ivan Konev from its site, a move that will likely anger Russia. After it was targeted by vandals, Prague 6 approved Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019 a plan to remove it. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek/File)

Prague to remove monument to WWII Soviet commander

By KAREL JANICEK - Associated Press

Drone seized as soccer fans held in Kosovo before Euro game

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FILE-In this file picture taken on Wednesday, April 28, 2010, some of 92 tombstones that vandals knocked over sit on the ground of a Jewish cemetery in the village of Pristoupim, Czech Republic. A new report by the Jewish community has registered an increased number of anti-Semitic incidents in the Czech Republic last year. The report on anti-Semitism published by the Federation of the Jewish Communities on Wednesday says 347 such attacks were recorded in 2018. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek/File)

New report finds anti-Semitism on the rise in Czech Republic

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FILE - In this Tuesday, June 4, 2019, file photo, a woman takes a selfie as protesters gather at the Venceslas Square in downtown Prague, Czech Republic. Prague won’t have seen anything like this since the protests of 1989 which brought down the communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia. Some 400,000 have signed a petition calling on Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis to step down over fraud allegations and subsidies paid to his former companies. And hundreds of thousands are expected at a rally in Prague on Sunday, June 23, 2019 to urge the populist billionaire to stand down. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

Prague set to see biggest protests since Velvet Revolution

By KAREL JANICEK - Associated Press

A view of the damaged vehicle involved in an accident near Alanya in Antalya province, Turkey, Monday, April 29, 2019. Czech Republic international Josef Sural was killed and six other Alanyaspor players were injured Monday when their van was involved in an accident on the way home from a Turkish league soccer match. (IHA agency via AP)

Czech international Sural killed in auto crash in Turkey

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Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen told The Washington Times, "They make me look like a combination between Ray Donovan and Jason Bourne. ... I have multiple passports? No, I have one passport." (Associated Press/File)

Michael Cohen clears up various conspiracy stories

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump welcome Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and his wife Monika Babisova to the White House, Thursday, March 7, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump, Czech Prime Minister Babis have much in common

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

In this picture taken on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018, Marek Kulhavy blows small glass beads in the village of Ponikla, Czech Republic. A small family business in a mountainous village in northern Czech Republic is the last place where traditional Christmas decorations from blown glass beads are made. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

AP PHOTOS: Czech glassblowers keep Christmas tradition alive

By PETR DAVID JOSEK - Associated Press