Archive for April 3rd, 2008

Croatia Receives NATO Invite

Zagreb, April 3 (CP) — Croatia has been extended an official invitation to join NATO in Bucharest, at the NATO summit which commenced on Wednesday evening.
The announcement was made by the NATO secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.
Scheffer said that countries that have been invited have the right to feel proud at their achievement, as […]

Soccer Player Hrvoje Custic Dies of Head Injury Sustained on Field

Zagreb, April 3 (CP) — The Zadar team soccer player Hrvoje Custic, 35, who sustained a head injury in Saturday’s first division game with Cibalija held in Zadar on Saturday.
Although he was expected to fully recover after surgery and the medicinally induced come, he succumbed to an infection.
The young athlete had slammed into a concrete […]

Killer General Korade Kills Himself in His Summer House

Zagreb, April 3 (CP) – After a shootout with the police and killing a riot policeman ret. Gen. Ivan Korade has killed himself in his summer home in Velika Veternicka in Croatia’s Zagorje area.
Korade, who has been charged with four counts of murder, has been found dead in his summer home after he had managed […]

A Policeman Dies in Shootout on Hunted Croatian army General’s Land Plot; Not Clear whether

Zagreb, April 3 (CP) – A policeman has died and several more are believed to have been injured in a shootout on the property owned by ret. Gen. Ivan Korade who has been avoiding police arrest for a week now.
The media are reporting that the shootout happened during an attempt to capture Korade by a […]

A 55-year-old Swedish National Found Dead in Abandoned Island Quarry

Zagreb, April 3 (CP) – The body of a 55-year-old Swedish national was discovered near a car bearing Swedish number plates by the Merag-Cres road on Wednesday afternoon.
Initially, the police thought the man had been killed, but later indications pointed to suicide.
The car near which the body was found was set alight.
A post-mortem s still […]