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Zagreb, May 20 (CP) – A German national suffered serious injuries during takeoff while attempting to fly a paraglider on the Kamena hill on the northern island of Krk on Monday.
The 44-year-old man who was not named was together with a group of paragliding enthusiasts when he attempted to take off and crashed into the […]

Zagreb, May 20 (CP) – A Germanwings plane flying between the Croatian port of Split and German city of Stuttgart had to make an emergency landing after a bird got caught in its engine on Monday.
The incident happened at 2:20 p.m. on Monday when the plane carrying 82 passengers and crew members had to make […]

Zagreb, May 19 (CP) – Three boys of whom the oldest is just eight years old are living in awful conditions without water and electricity and a mother who is unable to care for them due to a mental condition in a hut near the coastal port of Sibenik.
The hut, which serves as the children’s […]

Zagreb, May 19 (CP) – Following an initiative from the association of veterans from Pakrac and Lipik charges were filed against 11 persons believed to have had commanding responsibility in the establishment of the Bucje prison camp during the Homeland war.
Some 250 detainees from the West Slavonia area had been kept there.
The documents for the […]

Zagreb, May 19 (CP) – A shop assistant in the coastal city of Split had suffered a terrible shock and had a lucky break, when she opened a box of bananas only to find a snake in it.
The grey and brown snake, which is some 30 centimetres long, had fled from the box as soon […]

Zagreb, May 18 (CP) – A 23-year old Canadian citizen of Chinese origin was beaten up by a group of shaved head youths in the centre of Croatian capital Zagreb on Saturday.
The man was found curled up in a ball in Zagreb’s old city by a passer-by who called for help after she had discovered […]

Zagreb, May 18 (CP) – A freak accident grounded helicopters flying to and from Split on Saturday and Sunday after a plastic bag got caught in the propeller and rendered a taking off helicopter unsafe to fly.
The indicted forced the officials to close down the heliodrome until Sunday.
The accident happened as a search and rescue […]

Zagreb, May 17 (CP) – If a foreigner has an eye on obtaining Croatia papers he or she will have to fork out some €3,000, about half of what he or she would have to pay in EU countries.
Although Croatia has still not joined the EU there is a lot of interest for such shady […]

Zagreb, May 16 (CP) — The human skin cultivation that has begun at a Zagreb laboratory is to be used at the trauma centre to cover burns with skin grafts.
This will alleviate the need for import.
A great need for cultivated skin had occurred last summer when a group of firefighters were seriously injured while putting […]

Zagreb, May 14 (CP) – Zarko Puhovski, who had been at the helm of the Croatian Helsinki Committee (HHO) for quite a long time has resigned from the position at Wednesday’s plenary session of the organisation.
It is believed that Puhovski stepped down due to differences with the HHO current president Ivo Banac over the policy […]