Zagreb, May 24 (CP) – The Croatian soccer team has managed to beat the Moldova team 1-0 in a friendly held in the northern Croatian coastal town of Rijeka.
The game’s only goal was that by Niko Kovac in the 30th minute sending the ball into the goal with his head.
This is the first in a string of friendlies to be played prior to EURO2008.
Zagreb, May 24 (CP) – The Croatian soccer team has managed to beat the Moldova team 1-0 in a friendly held in the northern Croatian coastal town of Rijeka.
The game’s only goal was that by Niko Kovac in the 30th minute sending the ball into the goal with his head.
This is the first in a string of friendlies to be played prior to EURO2008.
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 telecom owner Carlos slim Helu, Serb Miroslav Miskovic, Lakshmi Mittal of India who is the lord of steel, Bosko Srot, a Slovene master brewer and Oleg Deripaska from Russia.
The list was compiled by the Slovene Finance magazine, not using the same criteria as the Forbes magazine, but using its data. The criterion was the GDP of each country that those rich men come from.
Todoric made his base capital by flowers’ wholesale and through being at the right place at the right time during the period of company privatisation during the Tudjman regime managed to buy cheaply companies using cheap loans, as did most of those who make up the Croatian rich few.
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 10 were also four Croatian Television journalists.
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 a glimpse of him.
Gotovina’s father Milan, died in Pakostane on Thursday and will be laid to rest on Friday.
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 to the one that killed him.
It is not yet clear whether The Hague Tribunal will be allowing Gotovina compassion leave in order to attend his father’s funeral.
The ICTY procedure entails the person detained to submit a written request to be let out temporarily and guarantees need to be given the person will return to jail after an agreed period.
Both the prosecution and the judges’ council need to decide on whether to grant temporary leave.
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.
Zagreb, May 21 (CP) – The Croatian border police have arrested a Serb drug lord on a border between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, who has been sought after by the Serbia police for arranging the production and trafficking of amphetamines.
Jovan Lukic had been arrested based on an Interpol warrant issued by Serbia on suspicion of dealing with substances essential for the production of amphetamines and actually moving the drugs.
He is the owner of the Dukla Trejding company and has been watched closely by the Serbian police for years.
Zagreb, May 20 (CP) – The Podravka Concern CEO Darko Marinac is to step down from his positions after eight years, claim unofficial sources.
The news comes as a surprise as there was no indication of such a move and Marinac always maintained he would complete his mandate, which expires in 2010.
Marinac was supported by both PM Ivo Sanader and president Stjepan Mesic, as the state owns a 28-percent stake in the company and other shareholders have no power over decisions made.
It is yet to be seen what is behind this resignation, but rumours have it that the Croatian Peasant’s Party led by Josip Friscic is trying to get a grip on the concern, as earlier it had been impacted by either the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) or the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
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 rocks and sustained serious injuries.
He was taken to the Susak hospital in Rijeka and although his injuries are serious his life is not in danger.
