Karel Janicek

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In this picture taken on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014 in Smrzovka, Czech Republic, group of enthusiasts climbs up a 58-meter tall and 100-year-old chimney of a former textile factory. The Czech Union of Chimney Climbers, group of over 1000 members, has climbed and created a database of 9,755 chimneys in the Czech Republic and abroad with details including their exact GPS position, height and conditions. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Sky’s no limit for Czech chimney climbers

Karel Janicek · October 2, 2014 10:13 am

FILE - In this July 17, 1992 file photo People welcome the ratification of Slovak sovereignty declaration in front of the Slovak parliament in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. The split of Czechoslovakia into two countries on Jan. 1, 1993 has been referred to as a "velvet divorce", hassle-free, peaceful and as amicable a split can be. If Scotland says yes to independence in the Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014 referendum, there might be a lesson to learn from the split of Czechoslovakia. (AP Photo/CTK, Jana Nosekova, file) SLOVAKIA OUT

Britain might learn from split of Czechoslovakia

Karel Janicek · September 17, 2014 1:42 pm

5-year-old Ashya King arrives for first proton beam treatment of his brain tumor at Proton Therapy Center in Prague, Czech Republic, Monday, Sept. 15, 2014. Ashya's parents believe the treatment available at the Proton Therapy Center in Prague would be better for their son than the conventional radiotherapy offered in Britain. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

British boy gets first proton treatment in Prague

Karel Janicek · September 15, 2014 1:08 pm

This Aug. 7, 2014, photo shows renovations underway at UNESCO's Flower Garden in city of Kromeriz, Czech Republic. Restoration efforts began in the 1950s, and the Flower Garden was added to UNESCO's World Heritage list in 1998 together with the castle and another garden on the grounds. The European Union is now funding restoration of about a third of the Flower Garden, using copper engravings from 1691 as a guide for what it once looked like. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Czech UNESCO garden gets back 17th-century look

Karel Janicek · August 28, 2014 2:02 pm

KGB targeted intellectuals in 1968 Czechoslovakia

KGB targeted intellectuals in 1968 Czechoslovakia

Karel Janicek · July 10, 2014 3:13 pm

New Slovak President Andrej Kiska, left, takes his presidential oath in the presence of the chairwoman of the Constitutional Court Ivetta Macejkova, right, at a ceremonial parliamentary session in Bratislava, Sunday, June 15, 2014. Kiska is the fourth head of state since the establishment of independent Slovakia in 1993. (AP Photo,CTK/Jan Koller) SLOVAKIA OUT

Andrej Kiska inaugurated as Slovakia’s president

Karel Janicek · June 15, 2014 1:48 pm

Acting Foreign Minister of Ukraine Andriy Deshchytisa speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, during a meeting on the 5th Anniversary of the Eastern Partnership at the Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, April 24, 2014. Deshchytisa described Russian military exercise close to the Ukrainian border as a provocation. The Eastern Partnership is a European initiative launched in 2009 aimed at strengthening relations between the EU and its eastern neighbours, in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine.(AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Ukraine FM: We are ready to fight Russia

Karel Janicek · April 24, 2014 5:05 pm

President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite inspects the guard of honor upon his arrival for a meeting on the 5th anniversary of the Eastern Partnership at the Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, April 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

EU, post-Soviet republics meet on partnership plan

Karel Janicek · April 24, 2014 2:10 pm

In this picture taken near the town of Harrachov, Czech Republic, on Tuesday, April 8, 2014 deer cross a creek in a winter enclosure. The Iron Curtain was traced by a real electrified barbed-wire fence that isolated the communist world from the West. It was an impenetrable Cold War barrier _ and for some inhabitants of the Czech Republic it still is. Deer still balk at crossing the border with Germany even though the physical fence came down a quarter century ago, with the painful Cold War past apparently still governing their behavior, new studies show. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Former Iron Curtain still barrier for deer

Karel Janicek · April 23, 2014 6:51 am

Slovak president race: known quantity vs. upstart

Slovak president race: known quantity vs. upstart

Karel Janicek · March 28, 2014 10:25 am

Stolen synagogue textile returns to Prague from US

Karel Janicek · March 26, 2014 12:27 pm

Czech filmmaker Vera Chytilova dies at 85

Karel Janicek · March 12, 2014 6:57 pm