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Mon, 07 Feb 2022 21:24:57 +0000
EU agriculture ministers delve into low-carbon farming
Strasbourg – EU agriculture ministers, including Slovenia’s Jože Podgoršek, learned on Monday about a low-carbon farming project and the work of France’s Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAe) in the fiel...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 21:24:32 +0000
Slovenian mixed ski jumping team wins gold at Beijing Olympics
Beijing – Slovenian ski jumpers Nika Križnar, Urša Bogataj, Timi Zajc and Peter Prevc won the gold medal in the mixed team normal hill event at the Winter Olympics on Monday to make history as the first nation to win the event in its Olympic ...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 21:23:13 +0000
Slovenia records 15% excess mortality rate in 2021
Ljubljana – Slovenia recorded an excess mortality rate of 15% last year, when the Covid-19 epidemic was in full swing, the Statistics Office said on Monday. The worst month of 2021 was November, when 49% more people died than the average for th...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 20:15:21 +0000
Business flocking to Slovenia’s Dubai Expo pavilion
Dubai – Interest among Slovenian businesses to get showcased at the Dubai Expo has been growing. The country’s pavilion has hosted around 400,000 individual visitors, more than 200 delegations and over 100 business events so far, Slovenia...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 20:15:00 +0000
Protests of 2020 and 2021 documented in photography monograph
Ljubljana – The photographic monograph entitled Shame by the artist collective Non-Grupa, which contains a detailed overview of protest actions in 2020 and 2021, has been published and was officially presented in front of the Culture Ministry o...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 20:14:41 +0000
Portraits by Melita Vovk put on show at NUK
Ljubljana – The National and University Library (NUK) in Ljubljana will put on show on Tuesday portraits Melita Vovk (1928-2020) drew of a number of Slovenian writers and participants in PEN international meetings of writers in Slovenia’s...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 20:13:52 +0000
Petrol looking to become leading fuel retailer in Croatia
Zagreb – Nada Drobne Popović, the CEO of energy group Petrol, has told the Croatian newspaper Večernji List that, following last year’s takeover of Crodux, Petrol aims to become the leading provider of motor fuels in the Croatian market...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 19:59:28 +0000
Hrovat 7th in women’s giant slalom in Beijing
Beijing – Slovenia’s Meta Hrovat placed 7th in the women’s giant slalom at the Winter Olympics in Beijing on Monday, finishing 1.35 seconds behind the gold medal winner, Sara Hector of Sweden. Hector, who was in the lead also after ...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 19:58:52 +0000
Kline 10th in Olympic men’s downhill for Slovenia’s best
Beijing – Boštjan Kline placed 10th in the Olympic men’s downhill for what is the best ever achievement for Slovenian male alpine skiers in the discipline. Out of three Slovenians to appear in the flagship Alpine skiing event at the race...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 19:56:24 +0000
Daily Covid case count down for 4th day
Ljubljana – Slovenia logged 5,512 new coronavirus cases on Sunday as the daily tally dropped for the fourth straight day on the same day a week ago, this time by over a third. Another 18 Covid-19 deaths were reported. Government data shows 441 ...



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