Bolivian police foiled an alleged plot to assassinate President Evo Morales, killing three men in a 30-minute gunbattle with a mysterious group that included suspects from Hungary, Ireland and possibly Croatia, government officials said Thursday.

Wilbert A. Tatum, retired publisher of the New York Amsterdam News, the Harlem-based newspaper that has covered the city’s black community for a century, has died during a trip to Croatia, the newspaper said Thursday. He was 76.

Top-ranked Rafael Nadal has advanced to the third round at the Australian Open, beating Roko Karanusic of Croatia in straight sets.

Ivica Kostelic of Croatia has won a World Cup slalom for his second podium finish in two days on the Gran Risa course.

A Croat survivor of a 1991 mass murder testified Monday that Serb fighters beat and tortured civilians before forcing them into a mine field, where they died.

Croatia’s leader took a swipe at the Bush administration Tuesday, telling a meeting on counterterrorism that a go-it-alone attitude in the United States had weakened the global fight against extremist groups.

Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader vowed Wednesday to defend freedom of expression after widespread criticism over police questioning of two people who belong to Facebook groups that oppose his policies.

NATO foreign ministers said Wednesday they expected Albania and Croatia to become the alliance’s newest members by April.

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Croatia’s president urged Balkan leaders on Friday to boost economic cooperation as a means of limiting regional fallout from the global economic crisis.