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Zagreb, April 13 (CP) – The Hungarian-Bulgarian low-cost airline WizzAir has totally let its passengers down by suddenly cancelling its Zagreb to London flight and leaving the passengers to their own devices on Friday.
The ordeal the 150 passengers of the Zagreb Friday afternoon flight to London began after the flight was initially postponed for Saturday […]

Zagreb, April 12 (CP) – Police chief Marijan Benko has confirmed that journalist and co-owner of the Nacional weekly, Ivo Pukanic would be stripped of his legally possessed handgun, due to breaching the law on arms.
The two possible reasons for assassination attempt victim Pukanic being stripped of his handgun is the fact that he came […]

Zagreb, April 12 (CP) — Anto Djapic has been re-elected to the post of president of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) at the 6th convention of the party held on Saturday.
Some 604 delegates voted of whom 26 voted against him becoming president and 10 abstained from voting.
Djapic pledged to work towards the […]

Zagreb, April 12 (CP) – A huge protest rally organised by the main workers’ associations in Croatia aimed at highlighting the increasing slumping of the workers’ quality of living is to be held at noon in Zagreb’s main square with some 40,000 participants expected and blocking traffic from certain parts of the capital.
It is yet […]

Zagreb, April 12 (CP) – Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic and his Montenegrin counterpart Milan Rocen have announced the holding of the first round of talks of the joint commission of the two countries on the issue of the maritime border at Prevlaka.
According to an earlier agreement the Commission should draw up an international agreement […]

Zagreb, April 11 (CP) – Croatia’s swimmer Duje Draganja has set a world record in the men’s 50-meter freestyle at the short-course swimming world championships in Manchester.
Draganja entered the finals as the seventh competitor, but just crunched his competition when it came to the actual competition coming in at 21:81, 12 hundreds of a second […]

Zagreb, April 11 (CP) – The first day of the Davis Cup match between Croatia and Italy in the coastal resort of Dubrovnik ended up in a draw.
Ivo Karlovic lost his match against Italian team’s Simone Bolelli 7-6, 6-3, 6-4, but Mario Ancic managed to even out the score beating Andreas Seppi 6-2, 6-4, 7-5.
 

Zagreb, April 11 (CP) – Another three families of fire fighters who lost their lives in the Kornati tragedy on August 30, 2007 have been awarded damages by the court to be paid by the local authorities.
The families of Marinko Knezevic, Ivan Marinovic and Dino Klaric are to receive some 2.3 million kuna that has […]

Zagreb, April 11 (CP) – The Split police have arrested a 75-year-old widow on charges of sexual harassment of her 86-year-old neighbour.
The harassed man has said that he had been persecuted by the woman for the past 20 years, but the attacks increased over the past four years since his wife died.
Suffering from mental illness, […]

Zagreb, April 10 (CP) – The executive director of the Swedish IKEA company Anders Dahlvig has told the British Times that IKEA was planning expnding to Croatia, Slovenia and the Ukraine in the coming years.
He said that the plans have been prompted by the slump in the US and British property markets, as well as […]