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- Iranian cultural week underway in Croatia
Tehran Times Culture Desk TEHRAN -- Iranian cultural week is currently underway in Osijek, Croatia and will run until May 17. Book fair, children?s book illustration exhibits will be held during the week and some stories from Rumi?s Masnavi will be
- Argentina's Menem To Face Trial For Alleged Arms Smuggling
BUENOS AIRES (AFP)--Former two-term president Carlos Menem will go on trial July 8 for allegedly smuggling weapons to Ecuador and Croatia from 1991 to 1995, a charge that can send him to prison for 12 years, a court official said. Menem, 77, as senator
- China's top political advisor concludes visit to Slovenia
China's top political advisor Jia Qinglin concluded his official goodwill visit to Slovenia on Tuesday, leaving here for Croatia, the last leg of his four-nation Europe tour. During his visit to Slovenia, Jia, chairman of the National Committee of the
- Croatia Hosts Exercise To Stop Weapons Of Mass Destruction
ZAGREB, Croatia Dubbed Adriatic Shield 08, the exercise is being held under the Proliferation Security Initiative that was launched by the U.S. in 2003. The PSI, in which around 85 countries participate, is aimed at stopping individuals and rogue states
- Tose Proeski's fans boycott "Porin" awards in Croatia
English Zagreb, May 12 (MIA) - Members of Tose Proeski's fan club gathered in front of the Croatian Radio-TV building late Sunday, just before the beginning of the 'Porin' award presentation ceremony, in protest of the injustice that organizers have
- Backgrounder: Basic facts about Slovenia
Here are some basic facts about Slovenia and its bilateral relations with China. Located in central-south Europe, Slovenia is bound by the Gulf of Trieste to the southwest, Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast and Croatia to
- Zoran Milanovic re-elected as leader of Croatia's SDP
ZAGREB, Croatia -- Zoran Milanovic was re-elected on Saturday (May 10th) as a leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). At the party's 11th congress, held in Zagreb, Milanovic won the support of 75% of SDP members. The other candidates were Davorko
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In 1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia. Following World War II, Yugoslavia became an independent communist state under the strong hand of Marshal TITO. Although Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, it took four years of sporadic, but often bitter, fighting before occupying Serb armies were mostly cleared from Croatian lands. Under UN supervision the last Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia in 1998.
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