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Slain Tunisian drone engineer Mohamed Zouari. (screen capture: Aljazeera/YouTube)
May 9, 2018, 7:41 pm
Croatia court okays extradition of alleged killer of Hamas engineer to Tunisia
Alen Camdzic, a Bosnian man being held in Croatia, is accused of taking part in shooting death of Mohamed Zouari in Tunisia; Hamas has blamed the Mossad
By AFP
Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic lays a wreath of flowers during a ceremony in honor to the victims of Croatia's most brutal World War II death camp in Jasenovac, on 23 April, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)
May 8, 2018, 10:07 pm
Austrian authorities under pressure to axe Nazi sympathizer event
Jewish leader calls annual memorial for Ustasha regime supporters 'an affront to the memory of Holocaust victims'
By Agencies
Members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, hold a banner bearing a portrait of one of their leaders, Mohamed Zoari, who was killed in Tunisia, during a ceremony in his memory on December 18, 2016, in Gaza City. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)
May 2, 2018, 5:42 pm
One of two suspects behind 2016 hit on Hamas engineer said arrested in Croatia
Hamas and Hezbollah say Mossad agents were responsible for killing drone mastermind Mohammed Zouari in Tunisia
By TOI staff
Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz and during a news conference in Vienna, Austria, the leader of the Austrian Peoples Party, OEVP, October 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
April 24, 2018, 7:40 pm
Austria leader claims he cannot stop Croatian Nazi sympathizer event
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz says state powerless to prevent a church-sponsored memorial of Ustasha regime supporters unless laws are broken
By AFP
In this photo taken Thursday, March 15, 2018, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban sings along with performers wearing traditional outfits at the end of his speech outside the Hungarian Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
April 3, 2018, 6:19 pm
Far-right, Nazi apologist views going mainstream in much of Central Europe
In many places, the shift rightward has included rehabilitation of Nazi collaborators and a rise in anti-Semitic and anti-minority statements by officials
By Vanessa Gera and DUSAN STOJANOVIC
An Israeli F-16. (Hagar Amibar/Israeli Air Force)
March 28, 2018, 1:48 pm
Croatia set to buy aging Israeli fighter jets in $500 million deal
Israel's used F-16 planes will replace outdated Russian-made MiG-21s, helping to modernize country's military
By AFP
Opponents to a treaty safeguarding women protest in the Croatian capital, Zagreb, on March 24, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / STR)
March 24, 2018, 4:11 pm
Thousands of Croatian far-right supporters march against treaty to protect women
Demonstrators protest international convention they say indirectly legalizes gay marriage and gives rights to transgender people
By AP
Croatian former general Slobodan Praljak stands prior to the start of his appeal judgement at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on November 29, 2017 at the Hague international court, in the court's final verdict for war crimes committed during the break-up of Yugoslavia. AFP / ANP AND POOL / Robin van Lonkhuijsen)
November 30, 2017, 4:36 am
Croat war criminal who drank poison in court could have walked free soon
Slobodan Praljak had already served most of his 20-year sentence, upheld moments before he took his own life; experts say sneaking poison in courtroom fairly easy
By AP
Slobodan Praljak drinks what appears to be a poison upon receiving a 20 year sentence in a UN war crimes court on November 29, 2017.
November 29, 2017, 5:03 pm
Bosnian Croat war criminal drinks poison in court, dies
On losing appeal against 20-year sentence, Slobodan Praljak shouts his innocence, fatally ingests contents of a bottle
By JO BIDDLE and Rusmir SMAJILHODZIC
A man looks at the World War II Jasenovac memorial camp model on April 26, 2015, during a ceremony to remember the tens of thousands who were killed by Croatia's pro-Nazi regime. (AFP/Stringer)
September 29, 2017, 7:05 pm
US court rejects Croatia WWII victims suit that sought $3.5 billion damages
Nazi-allied Ustasha regime persecuted and killed hundreds of thousands of ethnic Serbs, Jews, Roma and anti-fascist Croatians
By AFP
Marko Skejo, the president of the Croatian paramilitary veterans group HOS, speaks during a press conference in Zagreb, after a memorial plaque with an Ustasha pro-Nazi slogan was moved from the vicinity of the WWII extermination camp of Janesovac, to a Croatian memorial site near Novska on September 7, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)
September 12, 2017, 7:59 am
Croatia government under fire for failing to tackle pro-Nazis
Far-right group put up a memorial plaque to its members at former extermination camp of Janesovac
By Lajla Veselica
In this Jan. 26, 2017 photo, the plaque bearing WWII pro-Nazi regime salute "Za Dom Spremni" (For Homeland Ready) commemorating deaths of Croatian troops killed during 1990's conflict is on a wall in Jasenovac, Central Croatia. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
September 7, 2017, 8:37 pm
Croatia removes plaque with WWII pro-Nazi regime’s slogan near death camp
'For the homeland — Ready! salute, used by puppet regime during war, has resurfaced among nationalists and right-wingers
By AP
An Israeli firefighting plane in Macedonia (Israel Police)
August 11, 2017, 11:04 am
Israeli firefighters conclude Macedonia aid effort
22-member delegation set to return to Israel after battling spate of wildfires in landlocked Balkan nation
By TOI staff
French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy looks on during a forum against abstention in Paris, on May 5, 2017, two days ahead of the second round of the French presidential elections. (AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE LOPEZ)
May 11, 2017, 12:19 am
Jewish French philosopher gets pied in face in Belgrade
Bernard-Henri Levy attacked by Serbian activists over his support for Muslims and opposition to Milosevic in 1990s
By AFP and JTA
Activists hold a banner reading 'Remove the Plaque' as Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic (C,R) walks during a ceremony honoring the victims of its most brutal World War II death camp in Jasenovac, on April 23, 2017. (AFP/STRINGER)
April 23, 2017, 7:51 pm
Anti-fascists, Jews boycott Croatia memorial at WWII death camp
Opponents hold own memorial, denouncing what they believe to be a resurgence of sympathies for pro-Nazi Ustasha regime in government
By AFP
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