Zagreb County

A 22-year-old British citizen has been ordered to pay around EUR 1,600 in local currency for driving without a license at 244 kilometers per hour.

The man was driving a British license plates BMW when he was stopped on the Bregana-Zagreb-Lipovac highway late on Sunday, Hina is reporting.

A Zagreb court overturned the 1945 verdict that convicted academic Filip Lukas of supporting Nazi occupation forces because of his connections with Croatia’s WWII-era fascist government

Anka Mrak-Taritas, the opposition Zagreb mayor candidate, challenges the incumbent Milan Bandic, promising new construction and recycling projects, and reforms of kindergartens, schools and the traffic system.

War criminal Veljko Maric, whose case sparked a long-running row between the Zagreb and Belgrade authorities, was given temporary leave from a Croatian prison for medical treatment.

An unnamed man on Friday committed suicide by jumping from the 4th floor of a residential building in the Spansko neighborhood of Croatia's capital Zagreb.

The police said that two dead persons were found in the apartment from which he jumped, the Croatian Hina agency reported.

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Zagreb

The authorities have exhumed 56 bodies of Serbs who died during the Croatian Army’s Operation Storm in August 1995 from a mass grave in the Gornje Seliste municipality.

Croatia has invited all NATO member states to take part in a parade in Zagreb on August 4 that will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Operation Storm.

Croatia's anti-organised crime office, USKOK, on Tuesday said it had indicted Marina Lovric Merzel, the former prefect of the Sisak Moslavina County.

Lovric Merzel, a former member of the  governing Social Democratic Party, SDP, and member of the Croatian parliament, has been under investigation since April 2014, when she was arrested and put into custody for five months.

After veterans clashed with police in the heart of Zagreb, the embattled PM has offered talks but says he will not surrender to force.