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An 8.4 Million Euro Warning System Stayed Silent While Omiš Ran for the Sea

194 people evacuated by boat, 36 injured, one body found in the burnt area. Mobile phones in the zone stayed...

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The Fire Near Omiš Reached the Sea in Two Hours: 19 Injured, 200 Evacuated

Driven by a strong night wind, the flames covered the distance from Mimice to Omiš in two hours. The question...

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The fire entered Omiš: a thousand evacuated, ten injured, and the water bombers had to wait for dawn

The flames reached fifty metres from the centre and people fled by boat because the coastal road was shut. A...

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German overnight stays in Croatia fell by 28 percent: the Adriatic guest no longer picks a place out of habit

Croatian statistics record a 6.6 percent drop in June, and nearly a third fewer overnight stays from its most important...

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A fire near Herceg Novi reached the houses and the church: two crews of firefighters for an entire hill

Bijela and Baošići lost power and water while the fire spread along the power line. The number two - that...

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28 Hours Without Power at the Peak of the Season: Tourists on the Bar Riviera Are Packing Up and Leaving

No water, no air conditioning, food spoiling - and the guests are blaming their hosts. The average speed between Sutomore...

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The Danube Has Fallen to a Historic Low: In Eastern Croatia, Gardens Are Being Watered With a Bucket

Minus 140 centimetres at Batina, the Karašica stream completely dried up, and the Drava three metres lower. When even the...

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The River Is Too Warm, So the Nuclear Plant Powers Down: Krsko Is Running at 80 Percent, and the Region Imports More

The reactor is fine - the river is not. Last century's infrastructure has met a climate that no longer exists,...

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Dubravka Šuica Got Europe's Hardest File: a Balkan Politician Has to Calm Ceuta Down

The Mediterranean commissioner from Dubrovnik holds exactly the portfolio the Ceuta crisis falls under. A Balkan biography, a European post,...

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Meteotsunamis Are Shaking the Adriatic This Summer: The Sea We All Share Is Sending a Signal

The harbour empties in ten minutes, then the water rushes back. A phenomenon that usually happens once a year has...

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471 Empty Apartments in the Heart of Dubrovnik in Mid-July: 5-Euro Ice Cream Chases Tourists to Another Shore

Peak of the season, and Dubrovnik sits empty. When a holiday on the Adriatic costs as much as the exotic,...

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Summer, and Ice Is Falling From the Sky: Hail the Size of Walnuts Hits Slovenia, Red Alert Issued

Drivers took shelter under overpasses and in tunnels. Slovenia is our neighbor, and what happens there today often reaches us...

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