Zagreb, February 25 (CP) – The towns of Knin, Imotski and Metkovic measured 20 degrees Celsius on Sunday, the unseasonably warm weather announcing the approach of Spring.
The Croatian capital Zagreb has also enjoyed high temperatures and clear blue skies on Sunday with 19 degrees being the highest measures on Sunday.
Although such high temperatures are not […]
A 16-year-old boy and his 15-year old girlfriend, both reform school pupils in the coastal city of Split are being investigated for drugging and then setting alight their 21-year-old acquaintance at the end of January 2008.
The two invited the unsuspecting friend for a walk and then offered him a well-known fizzy beverage that they laced […]
Zagreb, February 24 (CP) – Churchgoers were shocked on a particular Sunday, when they saw priest Ivan Cucek, a convicted paedophile deliver mass in a church in the centre of Zagreb.
Priest Ivan Cucek was sentenced to 18 months in prison, suspended for three years for fondling 11 and 12-year-old girls, the sentence handed down in […]
Zagreb, February 23 (CP) – Two people suffered serious injuries when their light plane crashed in Northern Croatia’s village of Nedelisce near Cakovec on Saturday afternoon.
The Cessna Apollo first hit a house, then got caught into some cables and finally crashed into a van parked near the home the plane had initially hit.
The details of […]
Zagreb, February 23 (CP) – Croatian President Stjepan Mesic paid tribute to former Slovene president Janez Drnovsek who died overnight at his home some 20 kilometres from the capital Ljubljana.
Expressing his condolences to the current Slovene president Danilo Tuerk, Mesic described the late Drnovsek as a politician whose legacy has been the relatively easy transition […]
Zagreb, February 22 (CP) – According to Croatian Ambassador to Belgrade Tonci Stanicic, the Croatian Embassy has been awarded police protection following Thursday’s attempts at demolishing the building by protestors taking part in an anti-Kosovo independence rally.
Stanicic said that last night’s damage to the embassy building was the result of bad assessment by the Serbian […]
Zagreb, February 22 (CP) – European Commission veterinary experts have arrived in Croatia in a bid to assist the fight against classical swine fever cases or which have been recorded in northern Croatia’s Medjimurje region.
A total of more than 50 pigs are to be slaughtered as part of the efforts to stop the disease from […]
Zagreb, February 22 (CP) – Troubled former Croatian tennis star Goran Ivanisevic has reported to the police following his return from Monte Carlo. He has been charged with bodily assault on a tabloid photographer whose camera he smashed.
Ivanisevic now faces a fine of 1,400 kuna ($270) or 30 days in jail.
The camera he smashed with […]
Zagreb, February 22 (CP) – A total of 187 paedophiles were located in the largest anti-paedophile operation in Croatia to date.
The preparations for the operation began in September 2007 when the police was informed by an Internet provider of paedophiles from Croatia downloading content from a hacked Internet site containing illegal children’s porn.
Following the IP […]
Zagreb, February 21 (CP) – The Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic has in a telephone conversation with Serbian counterpart Vuk Jeremic protested against the attack on the Croatian embassy building in Belgrade on Thursday evening.
Jeremic expressed regret over the attack and said all would be done for something like this not to be repeated in the […]
