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August 14, 2022 - More fires in Istria, including one causing problems near Pula Airport. Live updates from Index.hr.  Today around 12 o'clock, a fire broke out in the area between Pula Airport and Muntić. HAK (Croatian Roads Association) reports that the road from the Airport to Valtura is closed to traffic. An hour agoFirefighters issued a statement about the fires: "20 firefighters with 9 fire engines of the Pula Fire Brigade, and all voluntary fire brigades from Pula were engaged in the intervention to extinguish the fire in the open area between Pula Airport and the village of Muntić,…

ZAGREB, 14 Aug (Hina) - The 26th international street festival Cest is d'Best will be held in Zagreb on 18-21 August. The international, multimedia street festival promotes Zagreb identity, bringing life to the city's squares and streets, restoring their charm and optimism, and erasing the boundary between the established forms of culture and its alternative forms, its organisers say. Festival director Zlatan Jaganjac said that despite the difficult situation in the past few years, particularly due to the coronavirus pandemic and the March 2020 earthquake, the festival had been without interruption. He said that this year's edition would feature a number of events for…

ZAGREB, 14 August, 2022 - The 30th anniversary of the biggest POW exchange during the Homeland War was marked in Nemetin, eastern Croatia on Sunday by remembering the torture they suffered and the slow justice for those responsible. Without Serbia's cooperation, it's unlikely the persons who mistreated and killed Croatian POWs in Serb-run camps will be prosecuted, said Zdravko Komšić, president of the Croatian association of former Serb-run camp inmates. There will be no major progress as long as Serbia's current authorities are in office, he said at a monument to the 714 Croatian defenders, women, and civilians exchanged in Nemetin on 14…

ZAGREB, 14 August, 2022 - Five Ukrainian galleries will present works by Ukrainian artists created during the Russian aggression on their country as part of the Art Zagreb fair on 15-18 September. The works will be shown as part of the Terra Ukraina project, a result of the cooperation between Art Zagreb, the Ukrainian Gallerists Association and the SOS Ukraine platform, with the European Commission's support. The aim is to help Ukrainian culture, so all works will be for sale. The Ukrainian Gallerists Association was founded in Lviv last year. Since the beginning of the aggression, it has focused on raising public awareness of Russia's destruction…

ZAGREB, 14 August, 2022 - Croatian brothers Valent and Martin Sinković on Sunday won the gold medal in the Men's Double Sculls at the 2022 European Rowing Championships taking place in Munich. The brothers won their 19th big competition medal with a time of 6:35.93. Spain's Aleix Garcia Pujolar and Rodrigo Conde Romen (6:38.46) finished second, while Latvia's Armandas Kelmelis and Dovydas Nemeravicius were third (6:42.11).

ZAGREB, 14 August, 2022 - In the last 24 hours, 629 coronavirus cases, out of 2,125 tests, and 12 related deaths have been registered in Croatia, the national COVID-19 crisis management team said on Sunday. There are 7,234 active cases, including 612 hospitalised patients, 25 of whom are on ventilators, while 5,749 persons are self-isolating. Croatia has registered 1,200,742 covoronavirus cases to date, the death toll is 16,496 and 68.83% of adults have been vaccinated.

ZAGREB, 14 August, 2022 - An international speleological expedition, which is exploring 15 caves in environmentally protected areas of Mount Velebit for the second week, has noticed an accelerated melting of ice deep underground, linking it to climate change. While exploring a cave called Lukina Jama, which has been completely covered in ice at a depth of 70 metres in the last 22 years, they found that a passage has opened up into deeper parts of the cave as a result of the ice melting, members of the expedition told Hina in a statement. The ice, the age of which is…

 August 14, 2022 - The other side of the Rimac business - supplying components for other car companies - is about to ramp up, as Mate Rimac gives a video tour of the first major battery production line. It is more than six years since we first featured Mate Rimac on TCN, painstakingly transcribing and then translating the 46 questions posed by occasional TCN contributor, Sasa Cvetojevic, from their interview on N1 television. You can read that very interesting interview here - Mate Rimac: Concept One is Just Our Flagship Product, Technology is Our Forte. And while most of the…

ZAGREB, 13 August, 2022 - Croatian director Juraj Lerotić's debut "Safe Place" has won three awards at this year's Locarno Film Festival, for best director, best actor, and best first feature film, the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) said on Saturday. The film is about a sudden suicide attempt which opens a gap in the everyday life of a family of three whose lives change fundamentally, as if they have been pulled into a war invisible to everyone else, HAVC said. The plot is limited to a short period of time and boils down to the most important thing, to save a loved one, HAVC said, adding that…

ZAGREB, 13 Aug (Hina) - The crew from Zagreb won the 25th Neretva Boat Marathon, and raced on Saturday afternoon down a 22.5 kilometre stretch of the river Neretva from the town of Metković to the seaport of Ploče. The Zagreb crew finished the race in two hours and eight minutes of rowing. The Stablina crew finished second, and a crew from Metković finished third. Thirty crews competed this year. The Neretva Boat Marathon is an amateur sporting competition between rowers in traditional boats. Each crew consists of ten rowers, a drummer, and a cox. The race is one of the most important tourist…