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Zagreb, March 10 (CP) – An incident occurred at a Women’s Regional Basketball League game between host Gospic and Serbia’s Crvena Zvezda teams on Sunday in Gospic, as the Serbian players appeared wearing t-shirts with Kosovo Is Serbia written on them.
After both the Health Minister Darko Milinovic who was attending the game and the Gospic […]

Zagreb, March 10 (CP) — The pre-trial conference in the case of Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac ended some half an hour after in began at the ICTY in The Hague on Monday morning.
It was established that the prosecution has the right to present 134 witnesses and put forth its evidence during 210.5 […]

Zagreb, March 9 (CP) – A 15-year-old girl was shot and seriously by an unknown assailant while she was walking in Maksimir park in Croatia’s capital on Saturday evening.
The girl was taking a stroll with a 29-year-old friend when the shooting came about and was taken to a nearby hospital where she had surgery.
The victim […]

Zagreb, March 8 (CP) – The deputy president of the Croatian Serb SDSS party, Milorad Pupovac has warned that the SDSS may leave the coalition government if Croatia recognizes Kosovo too soon.
Pupovac did say, however, that there was no danger of this happening at this point.
He reiterated the views of the Independent Serbian Democratic Party […]

Zagreb, March 8 (CP) – The repeated expert tests on the car in which Macedonian pop star Tose Proeski had died in a car crash in Croatia on October 16, 2007 has shown damage that could have resulted from the car being tempered with.
So far all the blame had been put on Georgi Georgijevski, Proeski’s […]

Zagreb, March 7 (CP) – The trial of three Croatian generals at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) begins today in The Hague.
The three are to be tried for war crimes committed during the 1995 operation Storm.
The three generals are accused of taking part in a joint criminal enterprise with the aim […]

Zagreb, March 6 (CP) — The latest proposal by the government on banning Sunday trade has been forwarded to parliament.
Under the proposal all shops would be shut on Sundays and all holidays with the exception of summer months and December and would be open between 6am and 9 pm on working days.
The ban will be […]

Zagreb, March 6 (CP) – Croatian actress of Bosnian descend Semka Sokolovic Bertok known for numerous film roles has died aged 72 in Zagreb.
According to members of her family, the actress suffered a stroke a few days ago and died in a Zagreb hospital on Tuesday night.
Sokolovic Bertok played character roles in nearly 80 movies […]

Zagreb, March 6 (CP) – The parliament adopted the 2008 state budget on Wednesday evening totalling 119.4 billion kuna.
The budget debate took all day with most of the amendments rejected.
The government is claiming the budget is geared towards competitiveness of the Croatian economy with central state revenue of 115.6 billion kuna expected and expenses standing […]

Zagreb, March 6 (CP) — Ret. Gen. Ivan Cermak indicted for war crimes by the ICTY has arrived in The Hague for the start of the Gotovina, Cermak and Markac trial scheduled for March 11. The last pre-trial hearing is to be held on Monday, March 10.
The three Croatian generals Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and […]