Croatia

Croatia will reintroduce a two-month compulsory military service starting January 1 next year, the country’s Defense Minister said.

An armed assailant entered a nursing home in central Croatia Monday and opened fire, killing five people and wounding several others.

A car carrying migrants skidded off road and hit a wall in southern Croatia, killing four people and seriously injuring five others.

The Eurovision Song Contest, the most flamboyant attempt to prevent World War III ever conceived, will hold its annual Grand Final on Saturday in the most emotionally charged political atmosphere in recent memory.

Slovenia said it will introduce border checks with Hungary and Croatia after Italy’s decision to do the same with Slovenia over terror concerns.

Officials said they have broken up a suspected terror cell linked to the Islamic State group that consisted of nine young men and one woman.

A group accused Croatian police of using a clandestine WhatsApp group to share information about migrants trying to enter the country.

The disappearance of the impounded yacht took place months ago but nobody noticed, as a similar-looking yacht had been moored in its place.

Croatia is to be the latest European nation to abandon its financial independence in exchange for integration within the European system.

Anonymous bomb threats forced the evacuation of several police stations, shopping malls and courts, including the country’s supreme court.

The war in Ukraine has put European Union expansion at the top of the agenda as officials from the Western Balkans and EU leaders gather.

Several embassies of Ukraine in various European countries received bloody packages on Friday, one containing animal eyes, just days after the country’s embassy in Spain received a letter bomb.

The government of Slovenia has stated that it intends to dismantle a border fence, created during the height of the migrant crisis along its border with Croatia, by the end of the year.

Thousands of pro-lifers in Croatia took to the streets on Saturday to protest against a potential loosening of abortion laws in the country.

Ten European Union member-states have been exposed for selling hundreds of millions of euros worth of military kit to Russia between 2015 and 2020, despite sanctions.

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) – A drone that apparently flew undetected over several NATO countries all the way from the Ukrainian war zone crashed overnight on the outskirts of the Croatian capital, Zagreb, triggering a loud blast but causing no injuries, Croatian authorities said Friday.

Police in Croatia said that a German reporter was detained and fined for illegally entering the country from Bosnia with a group of migrants.

Boris Johnson’s UK is much, much closer politically, socially and economically to Tito’s Yugoslavia than it is to Milanović’s Croatia.

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) – A bus swerved off a highway and crashed in Croatia early Sunday, killing 10 people and injuring at least 30 others, police said.

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) – Croatian police have detained several people over incidents during and after this weekend’s Pride march in the capital of Zagreb.

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) – A gunman on Monday shot and wounded a police officer outside the Croatian government headquarters in the capital, Zagreb, before killing himself, police said. The shooting happened around 8 a.m. at Trg Svetog Marka, or St.

Beijing claimed on Monday that its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will support member nations struggling to restart their economies post-coronavirus pandemic and that, by doing so, it will help “rekindle hope” for the global economy.

Johnson has justified a new raft of quarantines and travel restrictions, remarking a “second wave” of the pandemic is developing. 

The EU blamed technical mistakes after its top official supported a part in a national election, in breach of political neutrality guidelines.

EU-sponsored activists have responded with fury after LGBT ‘pride’ flags flown in the Croatian capital were replaced with pro-life banners.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia has sent its army to a town near the border with Croatia where hundreds of migrants remain stranded in hopes of reaching the European Union.

A strong earthquake in Croatia on Sunday caused panic, the evacuation of hospitals and widespread damage including to the capital’s cathedral.

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) – A strong earthquake shook Croatia and its capital on Sunday, causing widespread damage and panic. A 15-year-old was killed and there were other injuries, media reported.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – The main Serbian hospital treating patients infected with coronavirus looks like an abandoned building, but it isn´t. With its rundown facade, peeling walls and rooms crammed with metal beds, the downtown Belgrade clinic for infectious diseases

Croatia’s president joined activists Monday in expressing outrage at the burning during a carnival of an effigy showing a same-sex couple.

Six people are missing after a boat carrying about a dozen migrants overturned while crossing the Danube on the border with Croatia, Serbian media reported Monday.

(AFP) — Bosnia on Wednesday dismantled tents at the makeshift migrant camp known as the “jungle” for its harsh conditions, after transferring hundreds of people who were living at the site to Sarajevo.

Croatian police say a migrant has been shot and slightly wounded near the border while resisting police officers.

ZAGREB, Croatia — Branko Lustig, an Oscar-winning Croatian film producer and Holocaust survivor, died Thursday. He was 87.

(AP) — Police in Croatia have detained three British citizens for allegedly smuggling migrants, saying one of the men also tried to run over a Croatian police officer.

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) – Police in Croatia say a migrant has died after a van carrying 12 of them plunged into a river near the border with Slovenia.