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Croatia boasts of record tourism season

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Carrying banners and blowing whistles protesters gather outside the government headquarters in Zagreb, Croatia, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019. More than 2,000 teachers and other employees in Croatia's education system have rallied in the capital Zagreb to press for their demand for higher wages after being on strike for nearly a month. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Striking teachers rally in Croatia for higher wages

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FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, Migrants carry empty water canisters near the Vucijak refugee camp outside Bihac, Bosnia. In a statement released Thursday Oct. 24, 2019, The International Red Cross has warned of an imminent “humanitarian catastrophe” at the overcrowded makeshift Vucijak migrant camp on Bosnia’s border with Croatia and asked for urgent relocation of its occupants to a safer area.(AP Photo/Eldar Emric, FILE)

Red Cross warns of humanitarian crisis in Bosnian camp

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Croatian teachers go on strike over wages

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Hundreds of Bosnians protest against plans by neighboring Croatia to store part of the waste from the region's only nuclear plant near its border with Bosnia, in the northwestern Bosnian town of Novi Grad, Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. The protesters Friday in the northwestern Bosnian town of Novi Grad warned that a nuclear waste facility would endanger the Una River and the lives of some 250,000 people living in the area. (AP Photo/Radivoje Pavicic)

Bosnians protest Croatian plans for nuclear waste facility

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In this Sept. 4, 2019 photo, Andrej Sisko, right, leader of volunteer group called the Stajerska Garda talks to his lieutenants in Maribor, Slovenia. The European Union country of Slovenia has seen the rise of an anti-migrant movement called the “home guards&quot;, that patrol along Slovenia’s border with Croatia, catching migrants trying to climb over, and handing them to police. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Vigilantes in Slovenia patrol borders to keep out migrants

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC - Associated Press

Croatia recalls diplomat from Germany over racist comments

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EU president-elect praises Croatia as bloc’s ‘role model’

By DARKO BANDIC - Associated Press

Afghan boys collects the remains of a suicide attacker's vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. Croatia’s defense ministry said Wednesday that one of three soldiers injured in an apparent attack by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan, has died. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Croatia says 1 soldier dies, 2 injured in Afghanistan attack

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FILE - In this Saturday, May 12, 2018 file photo, a mourner holds a crucifix during a commemoration ceremony in Bleiburg, Austria. Thousands will gather in a field in southern Austria on Saturday, May 18, 2018, for an annual event to commemorate the massacre of tens of thousands mostly pro-Nazi soldiers known as Ustashas who fled to the village of Bleiburg in May 1945 amid a Yugoslav army offensive, only to be turned back by the British military and into the hands of revengeful antifascists. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

Croatia’s WWII divisions in the open as Merkel visits

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday Oct. 14, 2013 file photo, Croatia manager Igor Stimac, center, watches his squad during a team training session at Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland, ahead of their World Cup qualifying Group A soccer match against Scotland on Tuesday. India’s soccer federation has hired former Croatia player and coach Igor Stimac to lead the national team in its 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell, File)

India hires Igor Stimac as coach for World Cup qualifying

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Hundreds gather at the memorial center to pay their respects for tens of thousands of people killed in death camps run by Croatia's pro-Nazi puppet state in WWII, in Jasenovac, Croatia, Friday, April 12, 2019. Croatia's Jewish, Serb, anti-fascist and Roma groups have commemorated the victims of a World War II death camp, snubbing the official ceremonies for the fourth year in a row over what they say is government inaction to curb neo-Nazi sentiments in the European Union country. (AP Photo/Nikola Solic)

Croatia Jews, Serbs, anti-fascists, Roma gather at WWII site

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China's Premier Li Keqiang, left, and Croatia's Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic gesture after symbolically starting a machine at the construction site of a bridge built by a Chinese company and largely EU founded, in Brijesta, Southern Croatia, Thursday, April 11, 2019. Croatia is hosting a summit on Thursday for China and 16 European countries that endorsed Beijing's global &quot;Belt and Road&quot; initiative. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Chinese PM visits bridge in Croatia being built by China

By SABINA NIKSIC - Associated Press

In this photo taken Friday, March 1, 2019, a woman walks by Chinese flag placed on a street in Belgrade, Serbia. Chinese investments have been booming throughout Central and Eastern Europe's cash-strapped developing countries, even as European Union officials scramble to counter Beijing's mounting economic and political influence the EU has branded a ''systematic rival.'' (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

China’s spreading influence in Eastern Europe worries West

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Germany's Nico Schulz, fourth from left, celebrates with his teammates after scoring his side's third goal during the Euro 2020 group C qualifying soccer match between Netherlands and Germany at the Johan Cruyff ArenA in Amsterdam, Sunday, March 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

World Cup role reversal as Germany wins, Croatia struggles

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2018 file photo, a group of migrants moves through a forest in the Pljesevica Mountain in a attempt to illegally cross the border into Croatia. Amnesty International released a report on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, that accuses European Union nations of complacency in the &quot;systematic, unlawful and frequently violent pushbacks&quot; by Croatian border guards of thousands of asylum-seekers to squalid and unsafe refugee camps in Bosnia. (AP Photo/Amel Emric, File)

Rights group: EU complicit in violence against migrants

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Pjaca faces lengthy injury layoff after tearing ACL

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Strong winds hit Italy and Croatia, causing 3 deaths

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3 Croats face hate crime charges in attack on Serbian team

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3 arrested in Croatia after Serbian water polo team attack

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