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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 ...

THE parents of dead Victorian backpacker Britt Lapthorne have pleaded with Parliament to support a Bill named in their daughter's honour.

Prosecutors in Serbia and Croatia charged eight suspects Monday over last year's mafia-style assassination of a prominent Croatian publisher and journalist.

Croatia and Serbia have indicted eight men in separate investigations of the killing in Zagreb last October of an influential Croatian newspaper publisher, Ivo Pukanic , prosecutors said Monday.

Sreten Josic is said to be the man behind the assassinations of Bulgarian mafia bosses Poli Pantev, Konstantin Dimitrov and Ivan Todorov among others.

The breakout movie from a rising Quebec director has been awarded Best Feature Film at the 7th Zagreb Film Festival.

Gen. Rick Hillier seen at the change of command ceremony in Ottawa when he stepped down as chief of defence staff.

On October 26 the trial of Radovan Karadzic, the wartime leader of the Bosnian Serbs, will start in The Hague.

Zagreb. Croatian policemen are to patrol Austrian ski slopes this winter after what was described as the "full success" of an operation last summer involving Austrian police in Croatia.

ZAGREB, Croatia -- Police arrested six people Wednesday on suspicion of illegal stock dealings at Croatian food producer Podravka.

Israelis are unaware of the deep relationship their country has with the European Union, Javier Solana, the union's foreign policy chief said Wednesday, adding that his organization's ties with Israel are stronger than those with candidate country Croatia.

Zagreb Croatian policemen are due to start accompanying Croatian tourists on ski holidays in Austria to give them a sense of security.

ZAGREB, Croatia -- Police have arrested seven people suspected of committing war crimes against Serbian soldiers in 1995, local media reported on Monday .

The settlement of the Athens-Skopje name row is not an official precondition for Macedoniaa TMs EU accession talks but will create a better climate for the same.

Date : Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:11:03 +0500 CROATIA DRAWING THE FINAL STRAIGHT LINE TOWARDS EU Javno.hr October 16, 2009 18:38h The advances of Croatia are a clear indicator of the registered progresses of general form for the entire set of Balkan countries After four years of intense negotiations and deep reforms Croatia approaches the final straight ...

I really like Croatia and it was such a pleasure to visit Zagreb on Tuesday with Mark Barringer for the Delphi 2010 launch events.

"Slovenia and Croatia are young democracies whose roots reach back through centuries of history.

Mirko Oremus scored one, created another and was sent off as Croatia defeated Serbia 3-1 in Varazdin to climb three places in Group 7 and join their neighbours on six points.

Croatia will testify before the International Court of Justice on behalf of Kosovo in December, a move daily Novi List believes will sour relations with Serbia.

Promo video for 'i am Safe' Promotional video for new iphone app 'i am Safe'. The tragic disappearance and death of Britt Lapthorne have inspired a Melbourne man to develop an iPhone app allowing people instantly to notify loved ones if they are in trouble anywhere in the world.

The Tijana Pavlov Spring 2010 menswear collection shown at Cro-a-Porter in Zagreb, Croatia follows the post-apocalyptic theme she alluded to in her Fall 2009 ad campaign.

The October news letter from the Croatia Tourism board is just out with the announcement that the National Folk Dance Ensemble of Croatia is coming to the US in October.

A- An ethnic Serb is to run in CroatiaA's presidential polls due early next year for the first time since the 1991-95 Serbo-Croatian war, his party said yesterday.

A car bomb killed two journalists in central Zagreb on Thursday in the latest of a series of violent incidents that have hit the capital this year.

Croatian extreme right-wing NGO The Croatian Cultural Movement has announced plans to erect a monument in honor of former Croatian president Ante Pavelic in Zagreb, Croatia, this December.

A- After almost a year, Croatia resumes its stalled European Union accession talks today, but with ostensibly little progress in the most difficult areas requiring tough political and economic reforms.

Croatia resumed accession talks with the European Union on Friday after an almost one-year freeze caused by a border row with Slovenia, a breakthrough which the EU said was a "win-win-win" situation.