Croatia

Ex-soldier Fadil Dajic and ex-policeman Vahid Hadrovic were sentenced to ten years in prison each for killing a Serb civilian in the village of Plandiste near Kakanj in 1993.

Vrdoljak told an energy conference in Zagreb on Tuesday that Croatia was preparing an international tender for onshore gas and oil exploration in addition to its current open tender for offshore exploration in the Adriatic Sea.

“There are 40 companies interested in the Adriatic seabed. By September, a lot of other prominent oil companies will come to Croatia,” he said.

The first witness at the trial of four former policemen accused of abusing non-Serb prisoners in the south-eastern town of Bileca in 1992 said that one of the defendants assaulted him.

Former soldier Velibor Solaja was acquitted of killing of an elderly female civilian during the Croatian Army’s controversial ‘Medak Pocket’ operation against Serb forces in September 1993.

Turkey and Croatia look to improve business ties

Business leaders seek opportunities for new investment and deeper co-operation.

Business leaders from Turkey and Croatia recently gathered in Istanbul to discuss new ideas for deepening economic ties between the two countries.

Banned Croatian player a reminder of need to halt hate speech

Sport officials call for co-operation between all stakeholders to continue efforts to stop hate speech and fan violence.

As Croatia takes to the field in the 2014 World Cup, it does so without one of its veteran players.

A Belgrade court confirmed the indictment of five former Serbian fighters for alleged war crimes over the killings of 16 civilians in the Croatian village of Sotin near Vukovar in 1991.

The court in Zagreb on Friday confirmed that Sanader would go to jail but reduced the sentence from ten years to eight and a half.

Sanader, who was the country's premier from 2003 to 2009, was convicted of taking bribes from Hungarian oil group MOL in exchange for allowing it to take a dominant position in Croatian oil firm INA.

A witness said that former Croatian Defence Council fighter Josip Tolic, on trial for abusing Serb detainees in Odzak and Bosanski Brod, fatally assaulted a prisoner held in a school.

The European Court of Human Rights ordered Croatia to pay 20,000 euro in damages for not properly investigating the wartime killing of a Serb civilian from the town of Sisak.