Geography of Croatia

Croatian fire fighters, volunteers and the military are trying to put out raging forest fires that are endangering the population and tourist resorts.

The biggest is blazing on the central part of the Peljesac peninsula on the southern coast, in the villages of Pijavicino, Trstenik and Zuljane.

Croatia on Wednesday announced that plans to build a long-awaited bridge over the Adriatic sea, connecting the Peljesac peninsula to the mainland, will get underway next year.

An idea dating back to the late 1990s, the 2.4-km-long bridge should connect up two parts of Croatia divided by a 14-km stretch of territory belonging to Bosnia.

The 10th INmusic festival opens on Monday on Lake Jarun in Zagreb, bringing fans three days of rock and electronic music from popular bands around the world.

With multiple concerts happening at the same time, last year's festival attracted a record 70,000 visitors.

After veterans clashed with police in the heart of Zagreb, the embattled PM has offered talks but says he will not surrender to force.

The Dubrovnik Summer Festival appeared to be speedily backtracking on its earlier decision to pull a play by the controversial French writer Michel Houellebecq - on the grounds that it might offend Muslims.

Vucic caused controversy with a speech on Sunday in the village of Donja Gradina in Bosnia's Serb-led Republika Srpska entity at an event to commemorate 70 years since the mass escape of prisoners from the nearby Jasenovac concentration camp just across the border in Croatia.

Police filed misdemeanour charges against war veterans’ leaders who have been staging an unsanctioned sit-in for five months in Zagreb, as well as a group that protested against them.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Liberal Council (SLS) proposed to the authorities on Tuesday that a Serbian consulate should be opened in Knin, Croatia.

There are two consulates and the Embassy of Serbia in Croatia but the diplomatic representative offices are too far for Serbs living in the Kninska Krajina and places in the vicinity of Split, Zadar and Sibenik, SLS said in the proposition.

Zagreb county court made the ruling on Tuesday, clearing the way for Glavas to return from Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he was released from jail last week.

Glavas's Facebook page posted the decision to revoke the arrest warrant on Tuesday with a picture showing a man breaking free of chains and the word "Freedom".

The Croatian constitutional court on Monday revoked the ruling convicting Glavas, who was found guilty in two cases of war crimes against Serb civilians in the city of Osijek in 1991-92, and ordered new proceedings against him.