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By Monday, more than 1.000 people got infected with coronavirus in the country and 39 people died, according to Croatian agency Hina.
The coronavirus has so far infected 1.018 people, with outbreaks in Banja Luka (257), Citluk (81), Mostar (55) and Siroki Brijeg (48).
In Sarajevo, the infection was confirmed in 35 patients.

News agencies in Europe have joined forces to fight the growing threat posed by fake news. In a resolution adopted last week in Tirana, these commit to developing effective tools and rules to enable journalists and Internet users to fight misinformation as well as to promote reliable media and educate users to surf in the digital environment.

BRATISLAVA - The European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) on Friday unanimously voted the Tanjug News Agency to host its next annual assembly, to be held in Belgrade in September 2017.

Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic on Thursday announced that her Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic had canceled his participation in the Croatia Forum.

ZAGREB/KNIN - The Seismological Service of Croatia reported a strong earthquake of 3.8 on the Richter scale at 9:33 a.m. on Wednesday. The epicenter was about 30 km northeast of Knin, in the Bosansko Grahovo muincipality, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH).

Burglar stuck in door calls police for help

LJUBLJANA -- A burglar "with a foot stuck in the door" of a house he was robbing in Radovljica, Slovenia, had to call the police and ask for their assistance.

The police realized that the case was a burglary, and filed a criminal complaint against the suspect.

The Bureau of the Black Sea Association of National News Agencies strongly condemns the terrorist attack in Paris against the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo.

Photo credit (c) ALKIS KONSTANTINIDIS / REUTERS

DUBROVNIK - Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said that he will not attend the summit of the prime ministers of and Central and Eastern European countries and Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang, adding that a visit to Belgrade would be ridiculous given the recent temporary release of indictee Vojislav Seselj from the detention unit of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslav

"Šešelj should be sent back to Hague"

ZAGREB -- Ivo Josipović has condemned Vojislav Šešelj's message congratulating "liberation of Vukovar day", which is in Croatia marked as "remembrance day."

VUKOVAR - The bilingual sign on the Vukovar police building was damaged by a person from the area of Zagreb on Tuesday evening, who was taken in for questioning and then released, the Vukovar-Srem police stated on Wednesday.