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20 hrs ago | BlabberMouth.net

Doro Pesch Interviewed On Croatia's 'Metal Eye'

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.

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Related Topix: Heavy-Metal, Doro Pesch, World News

Sat Nov 07, 2009

BalkanInsight.com

Croatia Judge Pays For Excessive Trial Length

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.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Nikola Gruevski, Bosnia and Herzegovina,

Thu Nov 05, 2009

China Daily

Hotels a hard sell in tourist magnet Croatia

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

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Travel, Croatia Travel, Dubrovnik, Croatia Travel,

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Macedonian Radio Television

Slovenia, Croatia PMs to sign border deal in Sweden

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.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Fredrik Reinfeldt

Tue Nov 03, 2009

SETimes news

Croatian economy minster resigns

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

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Related Topix: Europe, World News,

Sun Nov 01, 2009

SETimes news

Croatia announces first swine flu death

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

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Related Topix: Europe, World News,

Sat Oct 31, 2009

SETimes news

Croatia's Polancec resigns over Podravka scandal

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

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Related Topix: Europe, World News,

Uefa.com

Points deduction for NK Dinamo Zagreb

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 ...

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Related Topix: Europe, World News

Fri Oct 30, 2009

BalkanInsight.com

Croatian Deputy PM Resigns Amid Scandal

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.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Canada

Clover Herald

Date set for Croatian presidential election

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.

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Related Topix: World News

Earth Times

Croatian deputy premier resigns over a corruption scandal - Update

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.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Jadranka Kosor

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Balkan Times

Swine flu hits schools in Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia

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

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Travel, Europe, World News, Croatia Travel

Wed Oct 28, 2009

CPJ Press Freedom Online

Eight charged in Croatia murders

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 ...

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Related Topix: Europe, World News,

Tue Oct 27, 2009

News.com.au

Family pushes for Britt Lapthorne Bill

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

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Kevin Rudd, Privacy

Balkan Times

Croatian journalist and publisher Ivo Pukanic was murdered last year. [Getty Images].

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

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Related Topix: Getty Images, Media, Europe, World News, Journalism, Mafia,

Mon Oct 26, 2009

New York Times

Croatia: 8 Indicted in Publisher's Killing

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.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News,

Sofia News Agency

Serbia Charges Sreten Josic with Croatian Journalist Murder

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

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Journalism, Marketing,

The Victoria Star

Young Quebec director's movie awarded Best Feature Film at Zagreb Film Fest

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

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Michaelle Jean

Sun Oct 25, 2009

Canada.com

Excerpt from A Soldier First: Bullets, Bureaucrats and the Politics of War, by retired general Rick Hillier

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

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Related Topix: NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), World News, Europe,

BalkanInsight.com

Ex-Croatia PM new Louise Blouin Consultant

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

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ivo Sanader

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