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Zagreb, May 6 (CP) – The Croatian Journalists’ Association (HND) is holding a silent protest at Zagreb’s Kamenita Vrata monument and march to the upper town’s Mark’s Square following an attack on their colleague and a general rise of violent attacks on journalists.
The latest incident happened on Monday, when crime reporter Dusan Miljus was savagely […]

Zagreb, June 4 (CP) – A malfunction has been detected at the Krsko nuclear power plant owned jointly by Slovenia and Croatia and located some 50 kilometres from the Croatian border with Slovenia.
The plant had to be stopped while experts detect the problem and resolve it.
The Croatian Electricity Board (HEP) has informed customers that despite […]

Zagreb, June 3 (CP) – As of Tuesday morning some customers of VIP mobile operator were unable to make calls or send text messages, this causing serious problems.
The problems occurred following the overnight service upgrade.
Allegedly, Vipnet experts are working on rectifying the problem and a machine is available at the customer service phone explaining the […]

Zagreb, June 1 (CP) – Two young Austrian climbers had gone missing overnight on Mount Velebit not far from the coastal town of Zadar and were only rescued at dawn, one of them suffering from an injured knee.
The two females in their early twenties had gone off on Saturday noon and had not reported 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 30 (CP) – According to research done using data provided by 100 Croatian hotels ranging between three and five stars and which account for 40 percent of the Croatian hotel business has shown that only 40 percent of Croatian hotels operate with a profit.
Once all the business costs are squared not even the […]

Zagreb, May 29 (CP) – The Croatian Helsinki Committee (HHO) has expressed dissatisfaction with the organising of a concert by fascist-insignia promoter Marko ‘Thompson’ Perkovic in Zagreb’s main square on Friday.
They have expressed concern over the fact that Thompson was reluctant to do away with the promotion of fascist insignia and chants.
The concert is being […]

Zagreb, May 28 (CP) – Croatian international and Portsmouth soccer player Niko Kranjcar is rumoured to have got engaged to long-term girlfriend Simona Fistric.
The couple are expected to tie the knot at the end of 2008 in a private ceremony.
Kranjcar has been playing for Portsmouth for the past few years and the couple have been […]

Zagreb, May 27 (CP) – The deputy Prime Minister Damir Polancec has said speaking to a Zagreb daily that the final decision on the increase in the price of electricity called for by the Croatian Electricity Board (HEP) would be decided on on June 15.
Polancec stressed that the government would try and agreed an increase […]