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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) – The organisation committee of Zagreb Pride which is to go under the You Have the Courage motto is to be held between June 25 and 28.
The organisation committee has announced that this year’s Pride is to be closely monitored by international human right organisations and European institutions.
For the first time […]

Zagreb, May 26 (CP) – A toddler just 15 months old fell into a water barrel on Saturday afternoon after pottering around in the yard of her home in the eastern Croatian town of Osijek.
The child stopped breathing and was taken to the Osijek clinical hospital emergency ward where she was immediately put on a […]

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 25 (CP) – The latest weather forecast for Croatia says that inland parts of the country are to be hit by unseasonably high temperatures at the start of next week
The eastern town of Osijek, as well as Virovitica, Sisak, Slavonski Brod and some other inland towns can expect temperatures of up to 34 […]

Zagreb, May 23 (CP) – Croatian tycoon Ivica Todoric, who owns almost all business in Croatia has made it onto the list of the wealthiest men in the world and is currently no. 7.
Only six people in the world are better off than the Croatian tycoon and they are the Ikea owner Ingvar Kamprad, Mexican […]

Zagreb, May 23 (CP) — The Hague Tribunal has decided not to prosecute the 10 Croatian journalists and editors who had published the secret annex of the indictment against Gotovina, Cermak and Markac.
The explanation is that just three days after the publishing of the annex, the ICTY had lifted the secrecy from the documents.
Among the […]

Zagreb, May 22 (CP) — The ICTY indictee Ante Gotovina has decided not to seek temporary release from detention in order to attend his father’s funeral.
Gotovina decided that he did not want to disrupt his father’s funeral by appearing at the service, as there would be many people who would show up just to get […]

Zagreb, May 22 (CP) – The father of ICTY indictee currently on trial for war crimes committed during operation Storm, Ante Gotovina, Milan Gotovina has died after suffering a massive heart attack at the age of 76.
Gotovina’s father has been suffering from heart disease for a while and has already suffered a heart attack prior […]

Zagreb, May 21 (CP) — Two Croatian scientists working in Frankfurt, Germany: Ivan Djikic and Koraljka Husak have discovered a new protein that plays an important role in the development of tumours and the nervous system illnesses.
This discovery brings the two a step closer towards finding cures for currently incurable diseases like cancer.