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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Zagreb, April 2 (CP) – The Social Democratic Party leader Zoran Milanovic has signed a petition in favour of NATO membership being put to a referendum.
Milanovic explained that such important decisions need to be made through a joint effort by politicians and citizens.
He added that SDP was in favour of Croatia joining NATO, but is […]
Zagreb, April 2 (CP) – According to the latest poll conducted by Promocija Plus claims some 60 percent of those polled were in favour of Croatia joining NATO, but at the same time 76 percent want to see a referendum on the issue held.
The not so good news is that EU membership support has dropped […]
Zagreb, April 2 (CP) – An attempt to workout in his self-made gym cost a 17-year-old youth from Sesvete near Zagreb a serious injury.
The young man was attempting to do chin-ups on a homemade piece of workout equipment when it gave way, the young man falling and rendering himself unconscious.
He was urgently rushed to hospital […]
Zagreb, April 29 (CP) – Following protests by secondary school pupils across the county on Monday who were voicing their disapproval over the introduction of the final school exam without proper preparations, the Education Minister Dragan Primorac has announced that the whole operation was to be postponed for a year.
Primorac put some of the blame […]
Zagreb, April 2 (CP) – At a diner reception held for US President Bush on Friday evening four top Croatian athletes will be among the 60 invitees.
Blanka Vlasic, the world high jump champion, Lino Cervar handball team coach, Dino Radja once a top basketball player and Sanja Jovanovic, Croatia’s record-breaking swimmer will be attending Friday’s […]
Zagreb, April 1 (CP) — The resignation of Croatian Television (HTV) director Robert Sveb is to be discussed at a special session of the HRT programming council on April 10.
This was decided at Tuesday’s meeting. Sveb had resigned due to disagreements with the HTV leadership regarding the loss of rights to World Handball Championships broadcasts, […]
Zagreb, April (CP) — Ret. Croatian army general Ivan Korade has been charged with quadruple murder following the killing spree in his village of six days ago and for the abduction of a woman and injuring of another man.
The abducted woman is the mother of two men who Korade had a fight this past summer.
The […]
