Croatia News

ZAGREB, Croatia -- Parliament approved Djuro Popijac as the country's new economy minister on Thursday .

A woman pays her respects at a memorial cemetery in the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar, yesterday.

Croatia striker Eduardo has signed a new long-term contract with Arsenal, having overcome a career-threatening leg injury to resume his career with the Gunners.

ZAGREB, Croatia -- Darinko Kosor was elected as leader of the Croatian Social Liberal Party at a party congress Saturday .

Opposition Social-Democratic Party fears their presidential candidate Ivo Josipovic will face Zagreb mayor Milan Bandic in the second round of elections, shows a GfK poll.

The world's eyes were turned to Berlin these days. This is the line, which many journalists used to open their articles on the 20 years anniversary of the wall coming down in Berlin.

Serbia's Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic said that Serbs who plan to vote in Kosovo's local elections this Sunday should ask themselves whether they are helping Belgrade ''save'' Kosovo by doing so.

German metal queen Doro Pesch was interviewed by the "Metal Eye" show on Z1 TV when she performed in Zagreb, Croatia on October 28, 2009.

The million-dollar question that's been puzzling me for a while is whether our Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski, is really considering a compromise with Greece over Macedonia's name or just bluffing.

Pavle Radonic has worked as assistant manager for Hotel Belvedere, overlooking the medieval city of Dubrovnik, for 18 years.

The meeting follows a decision on Monday by the Croatian parliament to back an arbitration deal with Slovenia, helping efforts to remove a major obstacle to Croatia's attempt to join the European Union.

Amid corruption allegations and denials of wrongdoing, Economy Minister Damir Polancec calls it quits.

ZAGREB, Croatia -- Authorities announced on Saturday the country's first death from swine flu.

ZAGREB, Croatia -- Economy Minister Damir Polancec resigned on Friday amid strong public criticism over a scandal involving local food producer Podravka.

UEFA's Control and Disciplinary Body has today ruled that NK Dinamo Zagreb must play their next two home matches in the UEFA Europa League behind closed doors, and have also deducted three points from the Croatian club's points tally in Group A. Crowd disturbances The decision follows serious crowd disturbances at the UEFA Europa League match ...

No man is a prophet in his own country. As a keen churchgoer and Catholic convert, Tony Blair must be familiar with those words from the Bible a ' a proverb that applies closely to his own situation this week.

Croatians will vote on Dec. 27 to elect a new president. The winner will replace President Stipe Mesic, who has served a maximum of two terms as the country's third president since it gained independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.

Croatian Deputy Premier Damir Polancec resigned Friday in the wake of a massive corruption scandal involving an attempt to illegally take over the country's largest food company.

Five schools across the country have closed after several students tested positive for the H1N1 virus, health authorities announced on Wednesday .

We issued the following statement after Croatian and Serbian prosecutors announced that they have charged eight men in an October 2008 car bombing that killed Ivo Pukanic, owner and editorial director of the Zagreb-based political weekly Nacional, and Niko Franjic, the papera s marketing director... "We welcome these indictments and commend ...