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Comrades of two Croatian former special policemen on trial for the killing of five elderly Serbs in 1995 told a court on Monday that they had not seen any evidence of the atrocities.

Or a teddy bear that was once a Valentine's Day present? A wedding dress from a marriage gone awry? An ax that smashed through household furniture? - In this photo taken Friday, Feb.

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Sarajevo Airport has started the year off on a positive note by handling 33.063 passengers, an increase of 9.1% compared to the same month last year when it saw 30.292 passengers pass through its doors.

During a recent sitting in Zagreb, the Croatian government united on plans to increase the standard rate of value-added tax from 23% currently to 25% from March 1, while at the same time adopting other fiscal measures designed to redress the public finances.

ZAGREB, Croatia &#8212 A former senior Croatian official has pleaded not guilty to charges that he ordered the abduction, torture and killing of Serb civilians during the nation's war in 1991-95. Former assistant interior minister Tomislav Mercep also is charged with doing nothing to prevent such crimes while being aware of them as a senior ... (more)

A primary school pupil is being quizzed by police in Varazdin, Croatia, after he beat his teacher senseless.

Hungary closed the Danube to river traffic yesterday because of thick ice, bringing shipping to a near standstill on Europes busiest waterway, as the continents cold snap death toll reached past 540.

Hundreds of miles of Europe's busiest waterway are frozen solid - and from Bavaria to Bulgaria, the continent's economy is seizing up too.

Radovan Karadzic's wartime personal secretary told The Hague tribunal this week that her boss, then the president of Republika Srpska, was a "kind person" who was "not intolerant" of people of other ethnicities.

No one could complain of a lack of audacity in Angelina Jolie's first film as director.

Lighthouse and lampposts are covered with heavy ice in central Adriatic Croatian port of Senj, some 200 kilometres from Zagreb, as the sun sets on February 8, 2012.

Tomislav Mercep, a former Croatian assistant interior minister, denied war crimes charges and called on senior wartime officials to testify in his favour as his trial began in Zagreb on Friday.

Croatia Airlines will launch new seasonal flights from Rijeka to Barcelona and Zadar to Frankfurt.

Town Hall officials are facing a 10 million GBP compensation bill from residents who say they were injured slipping over when freak weather conditions covered a Mediterranean town in eight inches of snow.

Lighthouse and lampposts are covered with heavy ice in the central Adriatic Croatian port of Senj, some 200 kilometres from Zagreb on Thursday.

Ice-breakers on Tuesday battled Europe's big chill as the Danube river froze over more for than 170 kilometres, and dozens died of cold on a continent gripped by some of the lowest temperatures in decades.

This eight-bedroom stone villa, built in 2005, was designed to house a large extended family or to function as an owner-occupied vacation rental.

A huge wolf attacked terrified motorists in their cars at a motorway service station after being driven out of a nearby forest in the hunt for food, say police in Split, Croatia.

Eastern countries such as Poland and Ukraine account for more than half this total, and dozens more have succumbed to the weather's secondary effects, such as asphyxiation by shoddy heating.