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ZAGREB - The Serbia men's national water polo team is through to the round of last 16 at the European Water Polo Championship in Zagreb after a 21-4 win over Malta in a Group C, Round 3 match on Tuesday evening.

Family, friends, state leaders and devoted fans gathered in the Croatian coastal city of Split on Tuesday to bid a final farewell to one of Yugoslavia's most famous musicians, Oliver Dragojevic, who died on Sunday at the age of 71.

Members of Croatia's LGBTIQ community and their supporters gathered in front of the Mimara Museum in Zagreb on Saturday for the capital's 17th Pride March. This year's Pride March comes in the midst of a rise in hate speech and racist rhetoric in Croatia.

A 22-year-old British citizen has been ordered to pay around EUR 1,600 in local currency for driving without a license at 244 kilometers per hour.

The man was driving a British license plates BMW when he was stopped on the Bregana-Zagreb-Lipovac highway late on Sunday, Hina is reporting.

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.

An unnamed man on Friday committed suicide by jumping from the 4th floor of a residential building in the Spansko neighborhood of Croatia's capital Zagreb.

The police said that two dead persons were found in the apartment from which he jumped, the Croatian Hina agency reported.

A robber in Croatia has bitten off "a part of the index finger" of the owner of a jewelry store he was trying to rob.

Croatian news agency Hina is reporting that the incident happened in the seaside town of Crikvenica, and that the thief was a Swiss citizen.

NICOSIA - Tanjug photo reporter Srdjan Ilic has won a special award in a competition for the best photo for the year 2014-2015 staged by the Alliance of Mediterranean News Agencies (AMAN).

Ilic is Tanjug's deputy editor-in-chief responsible for photography.

He will receive the award at the ceremony in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt on October 15.

Croatia sets aside funds for neighboring countries

ZAGREB -- Croatia has decided to send humanitarian aid worth EUR 100,000 to Serbia and Bosnia each, and thus help the neighboring countries cope with the floods.

Foreign Minister Vesna Pusić explained that her ministry has a sum allocated each year for humanitarian aid to those affected by disasters abroad.