ZAGREB

Sport teams and fans raise their voices against violence

Players and fans spread messages against violence in hopes of improving relations and unity in the region.

Marko Ivkovic, a Serbian club fan, was killed in Istanbul before the Euroleague basketball match between Red Star Belgrade and Galatasaray on November 21st. [Facebook]

Air Serbia customers flying from Zagreb pay less

BELGRADE -- Passengers on Air Serbia's flights departing for Moscow from Belgrade pay about EUR 100 more than those traveling to the Russian capital from Zagreb.

BELGRADE - Belgrade basketball club Partizan has made a big step towards the Adriatic League play-offs, after defeating Zagreb-based Cedevita in Round 16 on Sunday evening 76-64 (16-7, 23-17, 21-20, 16-20).

Presidential adviser on Croatia's "cantankerous platform"

BELGRADE -- Serbia's road toward EU membership "cannot be stopped by someone's whim," presidential adviser and former Serbian foreign minister Ivan Mrkic has said.

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has described the memorial mass held in Zagreb for Croatia's wartime Fascist dictator, Ante Pavelic, as an insult to the memory of hundreds of thousands of victims of his regime.

Church in Croatia slammed by Simon Wiesenthal Center

JERUSALEM -- The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center has condemned the holding of a mass in a Catholic church in Zagreb, Croatia, commemorating Ante Pavelic.

Some 1.6 per cent of all ballots cast in Sunday's presidential elections in Croatia were declared invalid, and many of the 28,712 spoiled papers were intended as displays of dissent.

Josipovic wins first-round vote with slight margin

ZAGREB -- Croatian President Ivo Josipovic scored a slight advantage against HDZ party candidate Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic in the first round of the presidential election.

Ahead of Sunday's election, Croatia's presidential candidates have tightened their belts in deference to the economic crisis.

The amounts of money being spent on their campaigns turn out to be markedly less than in the last presidential election.

Croatia's Office for Suppression of Corruption and Organised Crime, USKOK, has started a new investigation against Zagreb Mayor Milan Bandic.