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Zagreb, June 12 (CP) – The Croatian Ambassador to the United States, Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic had ended up being better at target shooting members of a Croatian delegation held at the national guard camp Camp Riple.
Grabar Kitarovic ended up being better than the rest of the Croatian delegation comprising high ranking Croatian army officers and […]

Zagreb, June 9 (CP) – A diving instructor attempting to work in her profession in Croatia is not allowed to legally pursue her career, as according to a 1996 legal regulation, women are not allowed to work under water in Croatia.
The Czech diving instructor was surprised when despite being given a valid work permit by […]

Zagreb, May 31 (CP) –  Milan Spanovic, a Croatian Serb sentenced in Croatia for war crimes committed in the Glina area during the Homeland war is to be extradited to Croatia by the U.K., ruled a London court on Friday.
Spanovic, who fled Croatia and lived in the U.K. since 1998 working as a locksmith had […]

Zagreb, May 30 (CP) – The two Croatian army generals Rahim Ademi and Mirko Norac indicted by the ICTY for crimes committed during the Medak pocket operation have heard the court ruling which has acquitted Ademi and sentenced Norac to seven years in prison.
Judge Marin Mrcela explained that while Ademi had not had full commanding […]

Zagreb, May 27 (CP) — The Croatian Electric Company, HEP, has announced that it will be raising the price of electricity from July the 1st. HEP is waiting for the government to determine later this week new electricity costs, however, an increase of 10 to 20% is expected.
In the meantime, the price of petrol has […]

Zagreb, May 26 (CP) – Some 5 days of deliberations are underway at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, to determine whether or not the United Nation’s highest court has authority in a 1999 case, in which Croatia charged, what was at the time, Yugoslavia with violation of the convention on genocide.
A team […]

Zagreb, May 14 (CP) – Zarko Puhovski, who had been at the helm of the Croatian Helsinki Committee (HHO) for quite a long time has resigned from the position at Wednesday’s plenary session of the organisation.
It is believed that Puhovski stepped down due to differences with the HHO current president Ivo Banac over the policy […]

Zagreb, May 11 (CP) – Croatian tennis player Marija Abramovic is stranded in Lebanon as political unrest shuts down the Beirut airport.
The 20-year-old Croatian tennis player is unable to leave Lebanon following the tournament she played in Jounieh and is looking for alternative ways to leave the country.
Abramovic is hoping to leave the embattled country, […]

Zagreb, April 10 (CP) – The Social Democratic Party (SDP) electoral convention that was held on Saturday resulted in the current president Zoran Milanovic retaining his position and capturing 78.88 percent of the vote in the first election round.
The two other candidates, Davorko Vidovic and Dragan Kovacevic had captured 11 percent and nine percent of […]

Zagreb, May 8 (CP) — The Austrian state prosecution in Vienna has received a request for an investigation against president Stjepan Mesic’s advisor Sasa Perkovic. He is accused of putting pressure on ret. Gen. Vladimir Zagorec during a secret meeting in 2007 who he demanded of to provide information in exchange for certain concessions.
The request […]