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UN court upholds ruling on ex Croatian Serb leader

AP — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:37:03 +0000

U.N. appeals judges have confirmed the 35-year sentence handed to a former Croatian Serb leader for his role in a deadly campaign of ethnic cleansing in Croatia.

In Bolivia, a Croat and a critic is cast in a harsh light

Jade — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:35:17 +0000

THE documentary on Bolivian state television opens with grainy images of leaders of the Ustashe, the fascist movement that ruled Croatia during World War II. The movie, part of a propaganda campaign against one of President Evo Morales’s most...

Belgium's Hellebaut upsets Vlasic in high jump

AP — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:35:23 +0000

Tia Hellebaut of Belgium has won the women’s high jump at the Beijing Olympics in an upset over Blanka Vlasic of Croatia.

Jewish group condemns Nazi funeral

AP — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:53:01 +0000

The funeral of a former Nazi concentration camp commander was used to celebrate his crimes, a Jewish human rights group said Tuesday and urged Croatia’s president to...

Hijacker returned to Croatia after US jail term

AP — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:51:55 +0000

A man who served 32 years in a U.S. prison for hijacking a plane and planting a bomb that killed a policeman returned home to Croatia on Thursday after being paroled.Zvonko Busic, 62, was welcomed at the airport by several hundred supporters,...

Austria: New evaluation of health of Nazi suspect

AP — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:29:45 +0000

Austrian authorities have ordered a new round of medical and psychiatric tests to determine whether a suspected Nazi is healthy enough to be extradited to Croatia to stand trial for alleged atrocities.The public prosecutor’s office in the...

General's Dubrovnik shelling conviction upheld

AP — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:02:51 +0000

Appeals judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal upheld the conviction Thursday of a Yugoslav army general for overseeing the deadly 1991 shelling of the historic coastal city of Dubrovnik.The five-judge appeals panel also added two more counts...

General's conviction upheld for Dubrovnik attack

AP — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:15:33 +0000

Appeals judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have upheld the conviction of a Yugoslav army general for overseeing the deadly 1991 shelling of the historic coastal city of Dubrovnik.The appeals panel has also added two more counts to Gen....

Sunday shopping banned in Croatia

AP — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:54:15 +0000

The Croatian parliament has passed a law forcing shops to close on Sundays in a concession to the Roman Catholic church.The church has campaigned for years for Sundays to be devoted to family or Mass in Croatia, which is almost 90 percent Roman...

US searches for World War II dead in East Europe

AP — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:33:57 +0000

For more than six decades, the family of U.S. Army 1st Lt. Archibald Kelly had no way of being certain he was killed when his bomber smashed into a rocky cliff in Croatia in World War II.They didn’t know his bones lay under a makeshift cairn...