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Zagreb, May 1 (CP) — Commemorations are being in Okučani today to mark the 13th anniversary of operation Flash in which Western Slavonia was retaken contol of by Croatian forces after four years of occupation by rebel Serbs.
Veterans, locals and visitors are attending along with President Stjepan Mesić, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader and Parliament President […]

Zagreb, April 30 (CP) – The Foreign Ministry has announced that the Greek authorities had extradited to Croatia Ernest Radjen and Dusan Maslovar, who have both been indicted for war crimes by the Croatian judiciary.
The Justice Ministry has put in a request for the extradition of Maslovar in July 2006 and of Radjen in October […]

Zagreb, April 29 (CP) — Speaking for Croatian Television last night, Education Minister Dragan Primorac, said that the introduction of a national level final exam for graduating secondary school students would be postponed until next year.
Primorac said that a lack of information regarding the exam had prompted students protests, and that this problem would be […]

Zagreb, April 28 (CP) – A section of a facade on an old building in the center of Zagreb fell onto the roof of a nearby house, damaging it, but luckily no one was injured in the incident.
The emergency services hurried to the scene and a construction firm is now making the facade safe.
Zagreb has […]

Zagreb, April 28 (CP) – A debate in parliament has shown that according to a recent survey some 40 percent of Croatian children between the ages of 11 and 13 are not engaged in sports or any type of physical activity and some 90 percent of them watch TV for about four hours a day.
The […]

Zagreb, April 28 (CP) – Some 500 Zagreb secondary school pupils gathered in the Croatian capital’s main square in protest of the upcoming state exam for which they claim preparations have not been thorough.
The Zagreb pupils together with those in several other Croatian cities are demanding that the introduction of the exam be postponed until […]

Zagreb, April 26 (CP) – Some 14 passengers were taken off the Amsterdam-Zagreb Croatia Airlines flight on Saturday, after flight attendant falls ill and the remaining three flight attendants could only care for 150 passengers in line with the international flight regulations.
The plane setting off from the Amsterdam Schipol airport had to ensure that 14 […]

Zagreb, April 26 (CP) – The members of the Croatian Mountain Rescue Team (HGSS) managed to rescue an injured Italian climber at the Paklenica national park.
The Zadar alert centre was informed on Friday evening of an Italian climber breaking his leg while climbing at the Anica Kuk section of the Paklenica national park and passed […]

Zagreb, April 25 (CP) – The Austrian authorities have decided to ban the concert planned for June 7 by Croatian singer/songwriter Marko ‘Thompson’ Perkovic.
The concert planned to be held in St. Andrae in south Carinthia, prior to the start of EURO 2008 was deemed as a heightened risk to public security, as it could spark […]

Zagreb, April 25 (CP) – The Croatian parliament is to debate the zero alcohol tolerance provision of the Transport Law and scrap the provision.
The ineffective provision is to become history as of June 1 and the provision on the return of 0.5 blood alcohol will be reintroduced.
However, the 0.5 would be in effect only if […]