Croatia
6 Jun 2022
The Nigeria Shitoryu Karate team will participate in the “2022 World Championship billed for Varadzin, Croatia, on June 10. According to the president of the Nigeria Shitoryu Karate Union (NSKU), Shihan Victor Akhimien, the global body invited Nigeria to join the rest of the world to compete for honours and ranking points in the championship…
20 May 2022
The heart-rending case of a woman denied an abortion by four hospitals despite the foetus having an aggressive tumour has sparked an outcry over women's rights in largely Catholic Croatia.
11 Apr 2022
Croatia will expel 24 Russian diplomats and embassy staff over the war in Ukraine, its foreign ministry said on Monday, following a wave of similar moves across Europe.
14 Jan 2022
Croatia's population has shrunk by nearly 10 percent in the last decade due to an exodus fuelled by a flagging economy, the latest census
4 Jun 2021
The last time Croatia played an international tournament, Luka Modric went on to win the Ballon d'Or, becoming the only player since 2007 to beat Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to football's most prestigious individual award.
29 May 2021
Thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators took to the streets on Saturday in Croatia, a largely Catholic country where human rights activists
17 May 2021
Croatia coach Zlatko Dalic named a 26-man squad for Euro 2020 on Monday, comprising players who won silver at the 2018 World Cup and their younger peers and led by veteran Luka Modric.
15 Jan 2021
"Winter shows its teeth," sighs 75-year-old Bara Vrbanac as she slowly climbs into the snow-covered camping trailer where she is living after her house in central Croatia was badly damaged in an earthquake last month.
30 Dec 2020
Fresh tremors shook Croatia on Wednesday as the Adriatic country was still picking up the pieces of a deadly earthquake that claimed seven lives and reduced buildings to rubble the day before.
29 Dec 2020
Slovenia's Krsko nuclear power plant has been shut down as a precaution after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake was registered in neighbouring Croatia, the plant's spokeswoman said Tuesday.
29 Dec 2020
A powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake tore down buildings in central Croatia on Tuesday, striking near the town of Petrinja where rescue teams raced to comb through the rubble.
12 Nov 2020
Croatia defender Domagoj Vida was informed that he tested positive for Covid-19 after playing the first half of a friendly with Turkey in Istanbul on Wednesday, the Croatian football federation (HNS) said.
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