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August 8, 2022 - The SuperSport HNL 4th round was held from August 5 to 7, 2022. This round was without the originally scheduled Hajduk and Gorica match, as Hajduk requested a postponement due to Conference League obligations. And it wasn't a good weekend for Croatia's top clubs, Dinamo, Osijek, and Rijeka. A look at SuperSport HNL round 4.  Varazdin v. Dinamo (1:1) Varazdin and Dinamo opened the 4th round in Varazdin on Friday, August 4, in front of 7,132 fans. Dinamo went into the match coming off of a 2:1 win against Ludogorets in the Champions League qualifiers earlier in…

August 8, 2022 - What's it like being a female football journalist in Croatia? A look into my life for the last 5 years.  It all started when a former colleague told me I'd never see a press pass for Croatia national team games. Well, it actually started well before that. I was born with a love for football and likely kicked my way out of the womb. My family history probably has something to do with it. My grandfather was a sports journalist in Split for Slobodna Dalmacija in his early 20s and friends with many Hajduk players at…

August 8, 2022 - The major Hvar fire continues to burn, with one man from nearby Jelsa tragically killed, reports Index.hr.  The fire that broke out yesterday around 1 pm on the island of Hvar between the towns of Dol and Vrbanj has not yet been extinguished. Ten hectares of dense pine forest have burned, and at one point houses were also threatened. One local man died while trying to save the machine from the fire. The man was from Jelsa, although his identity has not officially been made public yet.  During the morning, new forces are expected to arrive…

August 7, 2022 - Frano Ivkovic has won the 307th Sinj Alka, winning the prestigious tournament for the third time. Ivkovic achieved the victory at the 307th Alka after a double pinning, collecting nine winning points. He was the winner of the jubilee 300th Alka in 2015, and he also took the prize-winning flame to the 304th Sinjska Alka in 2019. In the first race of the Alkar competition, 17 Alkar spearmen hit only 19 shots, and only Ivo Zorica was above average with a shot in the smallest circle. The town band of Sinj, which is celebrating its 160th…

August 7, 2022 - Croatia's best canoeist Anamaria Govorčinović, who won the silver medal at the World Championships in Halifax, Canada, on Saturday, finished third in the 1000 meters race on Sunday, adding bronze to her medal collection from major competitions! The current 2021 European runner-up distributed her strength brilliantly and tactically rowed the race in which Australian Alyssa Bull won the world champion title, completing the course in 4:27.65 minutes. Hungarian Eszter Rendessy won the silver 1.31 seconds behind the winner. Anamaria Govorčinović stayed in fifth place until the halfway point, but when approaching 250 meters from the finish line,…

ZAGREB, 7 August, 2022 - From 6 to 11 September, Zagreb's Putolovac Gallery will host "Supermarket of the Future", a Dutch food design exhibition that explores whether the grocery stores we know today will still exist 30 years from now and what they will sell. Meat without animals, milk without cows, getting drunk without alcohol and dinners via Zoom already exist and are part of the huge food transition that questions our use of foodstuffs, production technology and culinary habits, the organisers said in the announcement of the exhibition. The exhibition showcases the results of research into the role of design in…

ZAGREB, 7 August, 2022 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković has announced further cuts in fuel prices as of next week. The price of Eurosuper 95 petrol will be reduced from HRK 12 to 11.30 per litre, Eurodiesel will cost HRK 12.14 per litre, and blue-dyed diesel HRK 8.50, Plenković told reporters during a visit to the southern town of Sinj on Sunday. "This is good news for all drivers. Prices of petroleum products are falling," the prime minister said. Asked to comment on the latest accusations from Serbia in the context of the 27th anniversary of Operation Storm, Plenković said…

ZAGREB, 7 August, 2022 - Maternity hospitals in Croatia reported 36,346 deliveries in 2021, with 36,991 children born, of whom 36,854 were live births and 137 stillbirths, the Jutarnji List daily said earlier this week, quoting a report by the Croatian Public Health Institute (HZJZ). The report confirms some of the trends in the last decade, including the fact that the age of first-time mothers has been moving upward, that more and more babies are delivered by C-section and that the number of births among girls under 14 has been dropping. The report shows that 33.71% of new mothers were aged 30-34, as many as 20.05%…

ZAGREB, 7 August, 2022 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and Minister for Veterans' Affairs Tomo Medved visited the Homeland War Veterans Rehabilitation Centre in the southern town of Sinj on Sunday. The construction of the Centre cost HRK 56.3 million (€7.5m), and equipment will cost HRK 5.3 million (€707,000). The 130-bed facility is expected to be equipped by October. Medved said that about 30 people would be hired to work at the Centre and that the selection process was underway. He said that construction works on similar centres in Daruvar and Petrinja were nearing completion, and that hopefully they would be…

ZAGREB, 7 August, 2022 - Croatia has registered 743 new COVID cases and 12 related deaths in the past 24 hours, the national COVID response team reported on Sunday. There are now 7,272 active cases in the country, including 628 hospitalised patients, 28 of whom are on ventilators, while 3,933 people are self-isolating. Since the beginning of the pandemic in Croatia, a total of 1,193,298 people have become infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, as a result of which 16,401 have died, while 1,169,625 have recovered, including 1,464 in the last 24 hours. To date, 59.58% of the total population, or 70.85%…