ZAGREB

Romanian Horia Tecau and Dutchman Jean-Julien Rojer won the doubles competition of the ATP Valencia Open, defeating the pair Kevin Anderson (South Africa) / Jeremy Chardy (France) 6-4, 6-2 in the Sunday final.

BELGRADE - "No One's Child", a debut movie by Serbian screenwriter and director Vuk Rsumovic, got the HT Audience Award for the best feature film at the 12th Zagreb Film Festival (ZFF), the Belgrade-based production company Art & Popcorn stated in a release on Saturday.

War veterans who have been protesting in Zagreb for several days held a commemoration for a wheelchair-bound female ex-soldier who reportedly died from exhaustion at a late-night rally.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar met his Croatian counterpart in Zagreb on Wednesday to discuss cooperation in healthcare and various projects, like joint purchase of medications by healthcare institutions from the two countries.

Croatian anti-corruption investigators on Monday detained the Mayor of Zagreb, Milan Bandic.

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Media in Croatia have reported that one of the main hospitals in Zagreb, the Hospital of "Sveti Duh", ["Holy Spirit"] has stopped performing abortions even though terminations are within the law.

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Croatian Economy Minister Ivan Vrdoljak said on Sunday that Washington had offered to mediate in the long-running row between Zagreb and MOL over management rights in the Croatian national energy company, INA.

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Swiss, the airline of Switzerland will start flights between Zurich and Sofia as of next year's summer, said the company in a statement on its website.

From the start of the 2015 summer schedules, Swiss will be supplementing its traditional hub concept with a new point-to-point system and expanding its Zurich-based European network through the addition of 22 new destinations.

RS leader supports "third, Croat entity" in Bosnia

ZAGREB -- Serb Republic (Republika Srpska, RS) President Milorad Dodik has said that Bosnia-Herzegovina "has no future except as a loose confederation."

Dodik also spoke in favor of the creation of a third, Croat entity in that country, noting that "Herzeg-Bosnia used to exist."

Dubai-based Flydubai airline has announced that it will begin flights to Bulgaria's Sofia, Bratislava in Slovakia, and Prague in the Czech Republic.

The airline will operate two flights a week between Sofia and Dubai, starting from 14 December 2014. Flights will operate on Wednesdays and Sundays.