Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Zagreb, April 23 (CP) — A 16-year-old boy commits suicide by throwing himself off the 12th floor of a skyscraper in Zagreb on Wednesday.
The reasons for the suicide are sketchy, but neighbours and friends of the boy are claiming he was simply testing a parachute that had malfunctioned.
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Zagreb, April 23 (CP) – A wandering pit bull terrier mauled to death a small Malteser dog and injured his owner in the centre of Zagreb on Tuesday afternoon.
The pit bull was by itself when it attacked the dog and killed him. The owner of the attacked dog was injured while she tried to save […]
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Zagreb, April 22 (CP) – A 62-year-old British tourist has died during a walking trip on Croatia’s Mount Biokovo overlooking the tourist resort of Makarska.
Jeremiah Lesley, 62, was walking with a party of fellow tourists in the woods, when he suddenly fell to the ground.
He was pronounced dead at 11:10 am, local time on Tuesday.
Makarska […]
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Zagreb, April 22 (CP) — The Opatija restaurant Plavi Podrum headed by Croatia’s best known sommelier Daniela Kramaric Tariba has made it onto the list of 100 world’s best restaurants.
Topping the list for the third year running is the El Bulli restaurant at Spain’s Costa Brava.
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Zagreb, April 22 (CP) – The network of Liberal Parties of SE Europe has at its meeting in Skopje, Macedonia elected Vesna Pusic as its president.
The goal of the body is solving social, political and ecological problems in the region as well as EU membership.
Liberal parties from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo are part of […]
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Zagreb, April 22 (CP) – At the Croatian Telekom (HT) annual meeting it has been agreed that most of last years net profit of 2.42 billion kuna be paid out in dividends of 29.56 kuna per share on May 19.
Small shareholders will in line with this decision be receiving around 303,000 kuna, while owners of […]
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Zagreb, April 21 (CP) – The police have arrested two men suspected of being involved in last week’s robbery of a security van in front of a Zagrebacka Banka branch.
The third suspect is still at large.
The police refused to say whether the stolen money was recovered, due to the investigation still being in full swing.
One […]
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Zagreb, April 21 (CP) – A Croatian Homeland war veteran destroyed his neighbours house and killed himself in the process in Vulisinac near Lepoglava on Sunday evening.
It is not clear what drove the veteran to commit such a terrible act, but it is believed the explosion came after an altercation with his neighbour when he […]
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Zagreb, April 20 (CP) — A father is to sue a hospital in Dubrovnik after his son was left with gauze in his nasal cavity obstructing his breathing after a tonsil operation.
The seven-year-old suffered breathing problems after he was released home from a Dubrovnik hospital after undergoing a tonsil operation and he could only breath […]
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Zagreb, April 20 (CP) – As many as two venomous snakebites were recorded in Croatia on Sunday, but both victims are said to be stable.
An elderly woman was bit in the foot by a venomous snake in Croatia’s Lika area after which she was rushed to a Gospic hospital in a serious state, but it […]
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