Czech castration raises worries
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A European watchdog expresses concern about the treatment of sex offenders in the Czech Republic.
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PRAGUE- President Vaclav Klaus is afraid that the public may mistakes the referendum on the European constitution with the previous plebiscite, on the Czech Republic's EU admission, Klaus told the daily ...
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More sex offenders could be offered 'chemical castration' under a range of tough measures being unveiled by the Home Office today.
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Pentagon space shield plan raises stakes with Russia - and local Czechs.
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Men who have had a vasectomy may face an increased risk of developing a rare type of dementia marked by a steady loss of language skills, researchers said on Tuesday.
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One of the biggest fears for men undergoing prostate surgery is impotence, but research doesnât do much to clarify risk.
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Syphilis is back: The sexually transmitted disease long associated with 19th Century bohemian life is making an alarming resurgence in Europe.
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ST. PETERSBURG -- Russian prosecutors said yesterday they were investigating a campaign group's complaint that conscripts were bullied into working in a prostitution ring run by older servicemen. In the latest embarrassment for Russia's military, one soldier said he was tortured with electric shocks until he agreed to have sex with clients, according to testimony collected by a campaign group. ...
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PRAGUE, Feb 10 (IPS) - Anti-corruption watchdogs in the Czech Republic  have said the  credibility of the Czech government is under  threat as a scandal deepens over the prime  minister's  purchase of a luxury apartment.
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Russian men risk death by drinking aftershave and cleaning agents with high levels of alcohol, a study suggests.
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Troubled by enlarged male breasts, boys are turning to surgery. Waiting may be wiser.
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WARSAW -- The husky man with the tiny espresso felt grumpy and unloved. "It's like this," said Polish legislator Henryk Dzido. "America and Poland are a married couple. The husband -- America -- is a despot, cheating and fooling around on his Polish wife. But she still loves him. Then one day the man tells the wife she has to ...
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OSWIECIM, Poland -- At first, the red-brick barracks look almost respectable, numbered like normal houses along tree-lined paths. But then the gas chamber reveals itself through the wintry fog, and the death wall where prisoners were stripped and shot, and the soil and ponds still full of teeth and crumbled bones from incinerated corpses.
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ROME (Der Spiegel) - Echoes of an old culture war have been rippling through Europe, as a bishop in Germany calls for Catholics to keep their kids away from a sex-education musical and the Vatican condemns a new gay-rights campaign in Italy. A children's musical about sex and babies, organized by the German government, has been touring the country since 2003 without noticeable friction. But now it's arrived in the city of Fulda, near Frankfurt, and the local bishop has called for a boycott. The Fairytale of Nose, Belly and Butt should be avoided by right-thinking Catholic families, according to Heinz Josef Algermissen, because in the Church's view, "explanations about sexuality belong in the home," and "can't be left to a theater troupe." The show's Web site begs to differ, saying the theory behind the project is that humans are "sexual beings from birth onward," and that children experience "smooching and touching genitals as no less fun or significant than tickling their big toe." Uproar in Italy, too This notion of human sexuality is no doubt as offensive to the Church as the idea that humans might be wired from birth to be straight or gay - which is the assumption behind an Italian ad campaign protested recently by the Vatican. The regional government of Tuscany has planned to use a photo of a newborn child wearing a hospital bracelet with the word "homosexual" as part of a publicity push to combat homophobia. "Sexual orientation," reads the tag line, which will appear on billboards throughout Tuscany, "is not a choice."  Italy's political right, along with some Catholic groups, want the campaign to be withdrawn. The Church's declared position is that homosexuality is a psychological disorder, not exactly a sin - although indulging in gay sex is a sin.
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PARIS/STRASBOURG- The European Human Rights Court today decided in favour of the Czech Republic in its dispute with Nicolaus Bluecher, a nobleman claiming property in north Moravia, who complains about the ...
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A play performed in Czech prisons has inmates laughing bitterly over some accused who they believe were treated leniently
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VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican is becoming increasingly alarmed at what it regards as official anti-Roman Catholic sentiment and secular trends in Europe, as government after government approves measures on abortion, family law, and scientific study that run counter to Catholic teaching.