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April 19, 2022 - The latest flight news to Croatia as Aer Lingus Split and Dubrovnik flights will only operate this summer as the Irish airline excludes Pula from its 2022 summer flight schedule.  This year, the Irish airline Aer Lingus is operating to only two Croatian airports, Dubrovnik and Split, reports Croatian Aviation. Namely, Aer Lingus will not operate in this year's summer flight schedule on a regular line between Dublin and Pula. The line was last in service before the pandemic. Aer Lingus remains present exclusively in Dalmatia, Split and Dubrovnik. The line between Dublin and Split operates…

18 April 2022 - In the last 24 hours, there have been 30 new cases of the infection with coronavirus and seven related deaths, Croatia's national COVID-19 crisis management team reported on Monday. There are 3,946 active cases, including 478 hospitalised patients, 23 of whom are on ventilators, while 2,230 persons are self-isolating. To date, Croatia has registered 1,113,547 coronavirus cases, the death toll is 15,742, and 59.46% of the total population, i.e. 70.73% of adults, have been vaccinated against COVID.

April 28, 2022 - Croatia’s Sara Luzar Smajić (3-1) returns to action this Saturday, April 23, as she faces Poland’s Natalia Baczyńska (6-1) at KSW 69 live from Warsaw, Poland.  Hailing from Zagreb and training out of the UFD Gym in Germany, Smajić made a successful start to her KSW career with a unanimous decision win over Spain’s Aitana Alvarez at KSW 63 last September. The 26-year-old is now aiming to build upon this win and make a push toward the vacant KSW women’s flyweight title. However, looking to halt those plans is the in-form Natalia Baczyńska. Making her KSW…

18th of April 2022 - The Palliative Team was launched which included six Croatian veterans who volunteered together with the staff of the Vukovar Health Center. As Novosti.hr reports, the president of the association “Defender Helps the Defender” (Branitelj pomaže branitelju) Željko Miškulin, wanted to expand the projects so three months later, they founded an association whose goal is to support the Croatian veteran population. “I saw the needs of the veterans and their sense of forgetfulness since they fell ill. Veteran health and mortality problems were high, several of us suffer from multiple sclerosis, and most members have the status…

April 18, 2022 - Ombudswoman Tena Šimonović Einwalter believes that, after the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights that holds the Croatian government responsible for the death of little Madina Hosseini, the system must be changed to one that guarantees the security and respect for the human rights of the refugees who enter to Croatia. She points out, in relation to the current situation in Ukraine, that she would like a future response from the EU to be the same for all those escaping the horrors of war. Ombudswoman Tena Šimonovic Einwalter said in an interview with Hina that, following the ruling…

18 April 2022 - General Marinko Krešić stated on Sunday that he withheld his signature to the request to President Zoran Milanović to pardon Josip Perković and Zdravko Mustač, former Yugoslav and Croatian intelligence agents, sentenced by a German court to life for assisting in the murder of a Croatian dissident. Perković and Mustač were sentenced by a German court in August 2016 to life for assisting in the murder of Croatian dissident Stjepan Đureković in Wolfratshausen in July 1983. Last Tuesday, attorney Anto Nobilo announced pardon motions for his two clients who are serving their sentences in Croatia. In the meantime, media have reported that the letter with the…

18 April 2022 - The Karlovac police reported on Monday that they had found two corpses, one at Svojići and other at Donje Dubrave, in the River Mrežnica, while they had been searching for a missing migrant from a group of Gambians and Senegalese who had reported that one of them had gone missing. According to a press release issued by the police today, the local police received a telephone call on Saturday evening requesting assistance in the search for a missing man who was believed to have drowned. Before the call, the local police had discovered at the village of Svojići eight foreigners,…

April the 18th, 2022 - The Sljeme cable car, which has been plagued with issues and been open then closed, is now open once again. This time, the new Zagreb attraction has a new service for its users. As Vecernji List/Dario Topic writes, the Sljeme cable car (Zicara Sljeme) was opened and then closed down, and has now been reopened once again. The now up and running Sljeme cable car, which is back in action following some additional noise reduction has new offers for its users - new working hours and a brand new service. Given the warmer weather of spring…

April the 18th, 2022 - A massive 32,000 tonnes of diesel is going to be poured into the market from Croatian mandatory stocks of that fuel following a government decision issued last week. The move was made as more and more countries explore gas and fuel options that minimise any reliance on Russia. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, on Thursday, the government decided to release 32,000 tonnes of diesel fuel from Croatian mandatory stocks of oil and petroleum products. The Hydrocarbons Agency will release 12,000 tonnes of said diesel fuel from Croatian mandatory stocks by the end of April and 20,000…

April the 18th, 2022 - Vir tourism numbers have been reaching never-before-seen heights during the first three months of this year, much to the delight of the local economy which was, much like everything else, struck terribly by the coronavirus pandemic. As Morski/Kazimir Skrbic writes, with a record number of tourist arrivals recorded from January the 1st to April the 15th this year, and significantly better numbers when it comes to overnight stays than last year, the island of Vir is rubbing its hands in hopes for another great summer tourist season that should surpass last year. In less than…