Zagreb, Croatia News

Dinko Sakic, centre, commanded the Jasenovac concentration camp during the Second World War.

ZAGREB, Croatia : The head of Croatia's state-run health insurance agency has fired his subordinate for saying "some patients must die" - a remark that caused an uproar in Croatia.

ZAGREB, Croatia -- Dinko Sakic, the last surviving commander of a World War II concentration camp, died late on Sunday in a prison hospital in Zagreb.

Croatian teenager Petra Martic upset former champion Klara Zakopalova 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 on Wednesday to reach the Slovenia Open quarter-finals in her second WTA Tour event.

'We walked off-stage and the crowd noise was amazing,' he recalled. That's when the Hold Steady guitarist realized his Twin Cities-rooted, New York-based group was no longer just a bar band.

ZAGREB, Croatia -- President Stipe Mesic met on Sunday with Miroslav Lajcak, the high representative and EU special representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina .

As crude oil prices soar, Croatian motorists are seeking alternatives to gasoline.

Sakic had heart problems and was recently transferred to the prison hospital. Sakic fled Croatia at the end of the war, when Croatia's pro-Nazi regime was crushed.

Croatia will accept the new Kosovo passports, says the Croatian Foreign and European Integration Ministry.

Hannes Swoboda, the European Parliament rapporteur for Croatia, said on Wednesday he expects the country to join the EU in 2012 despite the Union's problems ratifying the Lisbon Treaty.

Two people have died in a bus crash on the Zagreb-Belgrade motorway near Nova Gradiska.

ZAGREB, Croatia : Croatian police say a Serbian bus hit a fence and caught fire on a highway in central Croatia, leaving two people on board dead and eight others with serious injuries.

Linfield striker Peter Thompson looks to be coming to the end of his Irish League career - but not before a Champions League clash with Dinamo Zagreb.

ZAGREB, Croatia _ The Croatian parliament has passed a law forcing shops to close on Sundays in a concession to the Roman Catholic church.The church has campaigned for years for Sundays to be devoted to family ...

Biserka Momcinovic, a mother and grandmother, accountant and commercial officer before the war, was born on 9 December 1946 in Zagreb, Croatia.

Croatia went into the new millennium recovering from a decade of authoritarian nationalism under president Franjo Tudjman and bitter war.

Albania and Croatia signed their NATO membership accords on Wednesday, paving the way for the two countries' expected entry into the alliance next year.

Croatia Summit 2008 in Dubrovnik cheered up advocates of the country's EU membership.

Police report that the body found in the Maumee River near International Park in east Toledo is that of Anderton "Pete" Bentley, 80.

British heavy metal legends JUDAS PRIEST were forced to cancel two shows - July 1 in Belgrade, Serbia and July 2 in Zagreb, Croatia - due to guitarist Glenn Tipton "suffering from a very painful appendix ...