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Zagreb, February 19 (CP) — The Foreign Ministry has issued an advisory to its citizens travelling to Serbia to avoid gatherings, rallies and protests.
The same warning has been issued for travel to Kosovo.

Zagreb, February 19 (CP) — The Turkish vessel that caught fire in Croatian waters nearly two weeks ago has only been towed as far as Savudrija.
Although it was to arrive in Trieste on Monday, the go-ahead of the Italian maritime authorities is awaited for it to travel further.
The Italian authorities wish to get guarantees from […]

Zagreb, February 19 (CP) — The search for a missing Labin fisherman, which was discontinued last night due to poor visibility, has continued on Tuesday morning without success.
Fisherman Adam Vlacic went missing as he was fishing between the islands of Cres and the Istrian peninsula on Monday.
Helicopters, port authority vessels and Rabac port […]

Zagreb, February 18 (CP) – Croatian popular music diva Tereza Kesovija, 69, has had a tumour from one of her kidneys removed at a clinic in Slovenia, but is set to continue concert activity in Ljubljana, Slovenia on March 8.
One of Croatia’s music legends Tereza Kesovija, who was diagnosed with a kidney tumour during a […]

Zagreb, February 18 (CP) – The Croatian capital Zagreb has seen yet another mafia-style killing on Sunday night, as an unknown attacker gunned down one of the three brothers charged with the killing of an underworld boss in 1998.
Vinko Rodic, one of the acquitted men in the proceedings in the murder of criminal gang boss […]

Zagreb, February 17 (CP) – The peak of Mt. Biokovo, Sveti Jura froze to minus 19.2 degrees, this temperature being the lowest in Croatia this Sunday.
Zavizan has recorded minus 16 degrees and Knin minus seven.

Zagreb, February 17 (CP) – Apart from two official World Cup ski races, Zagreb’s Mt. Sljeme is to host a humanitarian race on Sunday afternoon in which world skiing legends like Janica Kostelic, Ingemar Stenmark and Alberto Tomba are to ski in a bid to raise money for charity.
The race has been organised as part […]

Zagreb, February 17 (CP) - The two men who contacted the alert centre in the early hours of Saturday, claiming they lost their way on Mt. Sljeme overlooking Zagreb, have been found safe and well in their beds.
After the seek and rescue mission was lauched, the service operators checked the two men’s home addressed, just […]

Zagreb, February 17 (CP) – After a policeman noticed a BMW driver illegally parking his car at a parking lot in Zagreb, the motorist tried to mow him down.
A Zagreb policeman was nearly killed in line of duty as he tried to warn a motorist of parking his car illegally at a parking lot.
The motorist […]

Zagreb, February 16 (CP) – The European Union has approved the sending of 2,000 members of the judicial and police as part of the EU-LEX Kosovo mission, their task being to protect minorities and assist Kosovo authorities in establishing a legal state, fight organised crime and corruption.
Not a single of the 27 EU members was […]