A city has been thrown into chaos after a fire at an electricity substation cut all power.Varazdin in the north of Croatia ground to a halt at 8.29 am this morning when a fuse short-circuited and caught on fire.Firemen are battling to extinguish the blaze and authorities say they won't be able to begin repairs until the fire has been put out, the Croatian daily Jutarnji List reports.
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"New voices in Croatian drama" has been chosen as the title of a programme representing contemporary Croatian drama in the US.The programme, which will take place on 13th May in the famous New York's Martin E. Segal Theatre Centre, will be a presentation of cultural events in contemporary Croatian drama, theatre and literature.Guests will include Tena Štivičić and Ivana Sajko, while a multimedia lecture on contemporary Croatian theare and drama will be held by Jasen Boko.
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A family had a lucky escape after a bomb was set off at their home in the early hours of this morning.Ivan R., 412, his wife and two children were asleep when the exposion ripped through their family home in Kastel Stari (Dalmatia) around 3am.The explosion destroyed the front door and ground floor windows, the Croatian daily Vecernji List writes.The police are investigating.
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A row over who holds the world record for the biggest tamburitza orchestra has broken out.Markus Karlich of the Tamburica Group in Trausdorf, Austria, sent a letter to the Croatian Times this week saying that news reported in February that the Croatian tamburitza band "100 tamburasa" held the world record was simply not true.He claimed instead that his Tamburica Group has 260 players from Austria and Hungary and is the rightful owner of the Guinness World Record.But the Croatian-based 100 tamburasa orchestra says it has some of the most prominent players in the world including Zvonimir Tonkovic, Darko Kranjcevic and
People with disabilities in Croatia still face violations of their basic human rights two years after a groundbreaking treaty on disability rights came into force, Human Rights Watch has announced in an info sent to media.Croatia was among the first countries in the world to agree to be bound by the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which will have its second anniversary on May 3, 2010."Croatia was a leader in taking on the obligations of the Convention, but since then it hasn't done enough to improve people's lives, particularly those with intellectual and mental disabilities" said
A man in Croatia tried to steal an ambulance after doctors had helped him.The 23-year-old man shocked emergency-room doctors in the western town of Porec by first asking for help after drinking too much alcohol and then on his way home from hospital breaking one of an ambulance's windows in an attempt to steal it.He tried to start the engine, but police stopped him before he could drive away, the daily newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija has reported.
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The U.S. State Department spokesperson Philip Cowley said that the U.S. welcomed President Ivo Josipovic's statement yesterday (Wed) in Sarajevo in which he apologized for Croatia's role in the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s.Cowley said that it reinforces the efforts to bring the stability to the region. "We think this is a vitally important…in terms of easing tensions, reconciling the various communities, and most importantly, creating an atmosphere where reform can occur."Foreign media has judged Josipovic's statement as a positive development. Reuters wrote that this is one of the last in a series of steps that Croatian
