Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Zagreb, May 15 (CP) – Croatia has come 49th out of 55 countries on the world competitiveness list with all EU members fairing better, but with Croatia doing better by four places than the previous year.
The list for 2008 was published by the Institute for Management Development (IMD) headquartered in Lausanne and has seen Croatia’s […]
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Zagreb, April 29 (CP) – Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader and his Slovene counterpart Janez Jansa, agreed on Tuesday to hold a meeting at the Bregana border crossing on Wednesday, as a sign of support for the Croat-Slovene initiative “Trade unions without borders”.
The two also agreed that the border regime between the two countries would […]
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Zagreb, February 25 (CP) – The towns of Knin, Imotski and Metkovic measured 20 degrees Celsius on Sunday, the unseasonably warm weather announcing the approach of Spring.
The Croatian capital Zagreb has also enjoyed high temperatures and clear blue skies on Sunday with 19 degrees being the highest measures on Sunday.
Although such high temperatures are not […]
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Zagreb, February 24 (CP) – A professional fisherman from the town of Komiza on the Croatian island of Vis has managed to catch a 50-kilo white shark on Saturday.
This is not the first time such a shark that is not often seen in Croatian waters has been caught, as during NATO attacks on Serbia in […]
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Zagreb, February 23 (CP) – Two people suffered serious injuries when their light plane crashed in Northern Croatia’s village of Nedelisce near Cakovec on Saturday afternoon.
The Cessna Apollo first hit a house, then got caught into some cables and finally crashed into a van parked near the home the plane had initially hit.
The details of […]
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Zagreb, February 23 (CP) – According to Croatia’s meteorological institute’s report for 2007, Croatia enjoyed an extremely warm 2007 with an average temperature of 13.6 degrees Celsius, the second highest average temperature during the 1861 to 2007 observation period.
During the July 19 to 22 heat wave, towns like Pazin (40 degrees), Rijeka (40 degrees), Daruvar […]
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Zagreb, February 22 (CP) – A total of 187 paedophiles were located in the largest anti-paedophile operation in Croatia to date.
The preparations for the operation began in September 2007 when the police was informed by an Internet provider of paedophiles from Croatia downloading content from a hacked Internet site containing illegal children’s porn.
Following the IP […]
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Zagreb, February 21 (CP) – A Croatian woman from the Koprivnica area gave birth to a baby boy in the toilet of a train, as she was travelling home from a visit to her obstetrician.
The 31-year-old mother of five was returning from a check-up from the town of Koprivnica to her village of Reka accompanied […]
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
The Trogir police confiscated an Albanian and a US flag from a Croatian national of Albanian descent, who placed the two flags on his windowsill and explained he had committed a misdemeanour.
Celebrating Kosovo’s independence declaration, the man had placed side by side on his windowsill the flags of Croatia, Albania and the US.
The man filed […]
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Zagreb, February 21 (CP) — The search for the Labin fisherman who went missing on Monday morning has been officially called off.
However, his friends and relatives are continuing the search of the 6 nautical miles area between the island of Cres and the Istrian coast.
A boot was recovered on Wednesday, believed to be that of […]
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