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Sun, 19 Dec 2021 21:49:51 +0000
Yaskawa increasing robot production despite supply issues
Kočevje – The Kočevje-based factory of Japanese industrial robot producer Yaskawa saw a big drop in revenue last year due to the Covid-19 epidemic, but this year it is seeing production and sales growth. They expect sales to reach EUR 32 mill...

Sun, 19 Dec 2021 21:48:38 +0000
Thirty years pass since W European countries recognised Slovenia
Ljubljana – Thirty years passed on Sunday since Slovenia’s independence was recognised by Western European countries. The first to recognise it was Iceland. Germany and Sweden followed the same day, with their decision taking effect on 15...

Sun, 19 Dec 2021 21:47:37 +0000
Logar meeting US secretary of state
Washington – Foreign Minister Anže Logar will visit the United States on Monday to hold talks with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. The meeting will be a continuation of the strategic dialogue between the countries that started at the en...

Sun, 19 Dec 2021 21:46:47 +0000
New coronavirus cases, at 767, broadly flat on week before
Ljubljana – Slovenia reported 767 new cases of coronavirus for Saturday, down two percent on the week before. Almost 34% of PCR tests came back positive, down a percentage point on last week, show the latest data by the National Institute of Pu...

Sun, 19 Dec 2021 21:45:48 +0000
Nation-wide vaccination promotion campaign kicks off
Ljubljana/Bled – A campaign aimed at boosting the Covid-19 vaccination rate in Slovenia was launched on Sunday. Taking place until Thursday, 62 vaccination centres across the country will work overtime and Civil Protection and Red Cross staff w...

Sun, 19 Dec 2021 21:44:59 +0000
Slovenian duo third in cross-country team event
Dresden – Anamarija Lampič and Eva Urevc won third place in the team event at the cross-country World Cup in Dresden on Sunday, finishing just 1.21 seconds behind the winners despite a crash in the fifth relay. The Slovenian duo had the misfor...

Sun, 19 Dec 2021 21:44:00 +0000
US Senate confirms new ambassador to Slovenia
Washington – The United States Senate confirmed Jamie Linder Harpootlian as the new ambassador to Slovenia on Saturday, after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee endorsed President Joe Biden’s pick following an early-November hearing. ...

Sun, 19 Dec 2021 21:43:05 +0000
Korean, Finnish dramas win top accolades at LGBT Film Festival
Ljubljana – South Korean drama House of Hummingbird was declared best film and Finnish drama Tove won the audience award at the LGBT Film Festival in Ljubljana, which wraps up on Sunday. House of Hummingbird by Bora Kim from 2018 is a coming-of...

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 22:52:17 +0000
Delo says political fragmentation means instability
Ljubljana – Commenting on the phenomenon of new faces emerging in the Slovenian political arena ahead of every election, and the latest new face, Robert Golob, former CEO of energy trader Gen-I, the newspaper Delo says on Saturday that fragment...

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 22:51:21 +0000
SSH chairman says state assets managed well this year
Ljubljana – State assets were managed well in 2021, chairman of Slovenian Sovereign Holding (SSH) said in an interview with Delo’s Saturday supplement. “The return on equity of the portfolio under management will be 1.3 percentage p...



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