Rijeka

The Croatian Foreign Ministry on Thursday delivered a protest note to Italy over the erection in Trieste of a monument to Gabriele D'Annunzio, the Italian poet widely perceived as a forerunner of Italian Fascism.

Croatian Serb leaders condemned on Thursday two attacks by masked assailants on local Serbs watching a televised football match near the town of Knin.

The Serbs in the villages of Uzdolje and Djevrske were watching a game involving Red Star from the Serbian capital Belgrade when the attackers burst into the bars, media reports said. Five, including a minor, were lightly injured.

Moored at a dock in the Adriatic Sea port city of Rijeka, the Galeb (Seagull), best known for being used by the Yugoslav President, Josip Broz Tito, as his official yacht, is waiting for a makeover to restore its splendour and turn it into a museum.

Opponents of abortion in mainly Catholic Croatia on Saturday joined "Walks for Life" in the eastern city of Osijek and in Rijeka in the west.

According to the company's website, the option is available for Air Serbia flights from Belgrade, Banjaluka, Podgorica, Sarajevo, Skopje, Tivat, Zagreb, Athens, Thessaloniki, Sofia, Tirana and Bucharest.

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.

A Croatian called Sasa Pavlic has started a long walk from the city of Rijeka to Zagreb with the intention of leaving his 20-kg wooden cross outside the government building in Zagreb's upper town - as a symbolic message that instead of buying military jets, the authorities should buy medicine to treat sick hildren.

Vucic is convinced that he will have a good conversation with his Croatian counterpart, and when asked about the differences between that country's president and government, he said he "does not quite understand the argument that the time is not right for the visit, but that it would be accepted."

Croatian pupils have expressed their mixed feelings about Europe, the Balkans and their own identity, in research recently published in a Croatian scientific journal Revija za sociologiju [Review for Sociology].

Social media users from Croatia and Serbia have ridiculed Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic for suggesting to a young footfall fan from Croatia that he should root for the Belgrade football clubs Crvena Zvezda and Partizan rather than for a home team.