Oil Campaign of World War II

A court in Osijek has begun the retrial of Serbian citizen Djordje Rkman, who is accused of committing war crimes against civilians in the eastern Croatian town of Djakovo in 1991 and 1992.

Five monks were assaulted at a Vienna church on Thursday by two people, at least one of whom apparently demanded money and valuables, police said.

Police said the assault happened at about 1:30 p.m. (1230 GMT; 7:30 a.m. EST) at a complex in the city's Floridsdorf district. No church service was underway when the assailants entered the Maria Immaculata church.

Tens of thousands of people thronged an anti-racism concert Monday in protest against xenophobic mobs that ran rampage in the city of Chemnitz, as Angela Merkel urged Germans to stand up against the far right's message of hate and division.

Croatian police said they have caught an 18-year-old male who sprayed symbols of the World War II fascist Ustasa movement on an anti-fascist monument in the city of Rijeka.

Transport chaos caused by the fall of the first snow in Croatia, local Index reported.

Extreme rainfall and strong winds have made traffic impossible in many areas of the country. Authorities have banned the circulation of lorries with trailers and semi-trailers on the roads from the northwestern Istrian peninsula and the Adriatic port of Rijeka to the interior of the country.

Damir Krsticevic, Croatia's Minister of Defence, confirmed on Wednesday that the US military had been permitted to use the country's infrastructure.

Eight-year-old Tino Popovic from Rijeka in Croatia, who became an internet sensation after he rejected Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's suggestion that he should start supporting a Belgrade club, has been given a team shirt signed by all the HNK Rijeka players, media reported on Tuesday.

German investigators hunted on April 11 for possible suspects responsible for three explosions that rocked Dortmund football team's bus, injuring a player.

The German police said on Friday they arrested two men on suspicion that they planned to carry out an attack in the town of Oberhausen.

Their target was one of the country's largest shopping centers.

The Prime Minister's brother-in-law Iulian Hertanu is supposedly being investigated on suspicions of having colluded with others to set up a bid rigging ring that acted to illegally win the contract for the expansion of the Comarnic city sewerage network, judicial sources told AGERPRES on Tuesday.

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