A man has shot dead six people including a 10-year-old child in Zagreb, before killing himself, Croatian police said.

A body found in a freezer at a house in northern Croatia is apparently that of a woman who went missing more than 18 years ago, police said.

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Ryanair has launched two new Dublin routes to Dubrovnik and Split in Croatia with both routes running twice weekly.

Spain boss Luis Enrique was left to rue an "undeserved" 3-2 defeat to Croatia in Zagreb as the hosts set up a Nations League decider with England.

The body of an Irish woman has been found in a pool in Croatia in the early hours of this morning.

World Cup runners-up Croatia were thrashed 6-0 by Spain in their first competitive outing since their exploits in Russia.

Police in Croatia said they have intercepted a group of 10 migrants in a dense forest, and another two who had apparently died en route.

The settlement the UK has agreed in principle over Brexit is made up of obligations and commitments it has already settled on, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said.

33 people have been hospitalised after a Ryanair flight made an emergency landing in Germany overnight.

Croatia is brimming with confidence, and its leaders think it’s time for the EU’s newest member to join the eurozone.

So football is not coming home after all.

Tonight's highly anticipated World Cup semi-final converted even those who wouldn't normally bat an eyelid at the sight of Harry Kane kicking a ball around a field.

Ger McCarthy looks at the winners and losers from the night.

They’ve gone 120 minutes twice in a week. They have endured the emotional tugs of two penalty shootouts, somehow coming out on top on both occasions, the first team since 1990 to do so at a World Cup. They’re dealing with injuries to their starting right back, their goalkeeper, and a handful of other players who could probably use a week in the ice bath.

Croatia are through to the World Cup semi-finals after Zlatko Dalic's side beat hosts Russia 4-3 on penalties following a 2-2 draw in their last-eight match in Sochi.

Four mouth-watering ties to look forward to.

Croatia have qualified for the quarter-finals of the World Cup after a 3-2 penalty shoot-out win over Denmark.

Thousands of Croatian far-right supporters have marched in Zagreb to protest over an international convention they said indirectly legalises gay marriages and gives rights to transgender people.

Greece 0 Croatia 0 (Croatia win 4-1 on aggregate)

The Balkans have become embroiled in a trade war over agricultural health checks after Croatia raised import fees on some farm products by around 220%, triggering countermeasures by Serbia and threats from others.

Northern Ireland rounded off their incredible 2016 on a losing note.

Ivan Perisic's late goal saw them advance to the knockout stages of Euro 2016 as Group D winners.

Flares were thrown on the pitch and fighting broke out in the Croatian end in Saint-Etienne.

CZECH REPUBLIC 2, CROATIA 2. Tomas Necid's injury-time penalty grabbed the Czech Republic an unlikely point as Croatia - who are also likely to face UEFA sanctions following crowd trouble - blew a two-goal lead.

The European Union is to call on African leaders to play their part in trying to solve the migration crisis by taking back the economic migrants.

Slovenia has started erecting a wire fence along its border with Croatia to help control the flow of people arriving daily.

Slovenia is to start building razor-wire fences on the border with Croatia to stem the flow of migrants – but not to stop it entirely, the country’s prime minister said.

Croatians went to the polls on Sunday amid a massive migrant surge and deep economic woes.

Serbia and Croatia have agreed to ease the flow of refugees over the border between the countries after thousands of people, including children, were forced to spend the night in near-freezing temperatures along a muddy border passage.

Croatia has opened its border with Serbia for refugees, letting in thousands who have been stranded for nearly two days.

Hungary has shut down its border with Croatia to the free flow of refugees, a move experts say could leave thousands of people on their way to western Europe stranded in the small Balkan nation.

Hungary is to close its border with Croatia, where it has built a razor-wire fence, in order to stop the free flow of refugees.

Croatia’s prime minister has dismissed Hungary’s plan to build a fence between the two countries, arguing that nothing would be able to stop those seeking sanctuary in richer European countries.

Croatia has announced that it has lifted a blockade of its border with Serbia.

Authorities in Croatia have set up a refugee reception centre in the eastern Croatian village of Opatovac, hoping to inject order into the unrelenting chaos that has gripped the country overwhelmed by thousands seeking sanctuary in Europe.

Asylum-seekers who fled westward after being beaten back by tear gas and water cannon on the Hungarian-Serbian border have been returned to Serbia, where their ordeal began, after Croatia declared it could not handle the influx.

Croatian prime minister Zoran Milanovic says his country cannot and will not close its borders to migrants, but will redirect people to Hungary and Slovenia and further towards western Europe.

Croatia has closed all but one of its border crossings with Serbia after straining to cope with more than 13,000 migrants who have entered the country after Hungary closed its border.

Croatian police have closed seven out of eight road border crossings with Serbia. It comes after an influx of migrants.

Amid chaotic scenes at its border with Serbia, Croatia said it could not cope with a flood of refugees seeking a new route into the EU after Hungary kept them out by erecting a fence and using tear gas and water cannon against them.