Zagreb, February 23 (CP) – Arsenal striker and member of the Croatian national team Eduardo da Silva suffered a sickening ankle injury during a clash with Birmingham City’s Martin Taylor in the 3rd minute of the Premier League game.
The Brazilian-born Croatian international’s injury was so grave that no replays of the incident were shown on […]
Zagreb, February 23 (CP) – Croatian President Stjepan Mesic paid tribute to former Slovene president Janez Drnovsek who died overnight at his home some 20 kilometres from the capital Ljubljana.
Expressing his condolences to the current Slovene president Danilo Tuerk, Mesic described the late Drnovsek as a politician whose legacy has been the relatively easy transition […]
Zagreb, February 23 (CP) – According to Croatia’s meteorological institute’s report for 2007, Croatia enjoyed an extremely warm 2007 with an average temperature of 13.6 degrees Celsius, the second highest average temperature during the 1861 to 2007 observation period.
During the July 19 to 22 heat wave, towns like Pazin (40 degrees), Rijeka (40 degrees), Daruvar […]
Zagreb, February 23 (CP) – The founder of the third strongest party in Croatia Drazen Budisa has applied to be scrapped as its member.
Budisa, the man who had founded the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) in 1989 and who headed it for 12 years has decided to leave.
There are speculations that Budisa decided to leave […]
Zagreb, February 22 (CP) – According to Croatian Ambassador to Belgrade Tonci Stanicic, the Croatian Embassy has been awarded police protection following Thursday’s attempts at demolishing the building by protestors taking part in an anti-Kosovo independence rally.
Stanicic said that last night’s damage to the embassy building was the result of bad assessment by the Serbian […]
Zagreb, February 22 (CP) – European Commission veterinary experts have arrived in Croatia in a bid to assist the fight against classical swine fever cases or which have been recorded in northern Croatia’s Medjimurje region.
A total of more than 50 pigs are to be slaughtered as part of the efforts to stop the disease from […]
Zagreb, February 22 (CP) – Croatian tennis player Ivo Karlovic has advanced to the semi-finals of the €824,000 ATP ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam.
Karlovic beat the German Mischa Zverev 6-3, 6-1 in just 54 minutes.
Karlovic is awaiting the winner of the Michael Llodra - Robin Haase match and is currently the highest-ranking player […]
Zagreb, February 22 (CP) – Troubled former Croatian tennis star Goran Ivanisevic has reported to the police following his return from Monte Carlo. He has been charged with bodily assault on a tabloid photographer whose camera he smashed.
Ivanisevic now faces a fine of 1,400 kuna ($270) or 30 days in jail.
The camera he smashed with […]
Zagreb, February 22 (CP) — At the ATP tennis tournament underway in Rotterdam, Croatia’s Ivo Karlović advanced to the quarter-finals on Thursday after defeating Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic 6:4, 6:4.
Karlović will face Mischa Zverev of Germany today.
Zagreb, February 22 (CP) – A total of 187 paedophiles were located in the largest anti-paedophile operation in Croatia to date.
The preparations for the operation began in September 2007 when the police was informed by an Internet provider of paedophiles from Croatia downloading content from a hacked Internet site containing illegal children’s porn.
Following the IP […]
