Archive for February 21st, 2008
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Zagreb, February 21 (CP) – The Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic has in a telephone conversation with Serbian counterpart Vuk Jeremic protested against the attack on the Croatian embassy building in Belgrade on Thursday evening.
Jeremic expressed regret over the attack and said all would be done for something like this not to be repeated in the […]
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Zagreb, February 21 (CP) – A Croatian woman from the Koprivnica area gave birth to a baby boy in the toilet of a train, as she was travelling home from a visit to her obstetrician.
The 31-year-old mother of five was returning from a check-up from the town of Koprivnica to her village of Reka accompanied […]
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Zagreb, February 21 (CP) – A group of people from Vukovar have set alight the Serbian flag in the heart of Zagreb, the Ban Jelacic Square.
The protest happened just after 9 p.m. allegedly in retaliation for the torching of the Croatian flag during the unrest that took place at the Kosovo independence protest rally in […]
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
The Trogir police confiscated an Albanian and a US flag from a Croatian national of Albanian descent, who placed the two flags on his windowsill and explained he had committed a misdemeanour.
Celebrating Kosovo’s independence declaration, the man had placed side by side on his windowsill the flags of Croatia, Albania and the US.
The man filed […]
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Zagreb, February 21 (CP) — The search for the Labin fisherman who went missing on Monday morning has been officially called off.
However, his friends and relatives are continuing the search of the 6 nautical miles area between the island of Cres and the Istrian coast.
A boot was recovered on Wednesday, believed to be that of […]
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Zagreb, February 21 (CP) – Two vans owned by a Pula baker of Albanian descent had been blown up in the early hours of Thursday morning.
The two explosions went off one after the other next to a bakery owned. The police cordoned off the area and refused to discuss the details of the explosion, although […]
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Zagreb, February 21 (CP) – It has been announced that the Croatian police in collaboration with the State Attorney’s Office has severed the largest paedophile ring ever to be discovered in Croatia.
Although an official confirmation of the on goings and the operation is to come at Thursday’s press conference, unofficial information claims that up to […]
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