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Mon, 23 May 2022 21:48:29 +0000
Minister honours member of Slovenian minority in Argentina
Ljubljana – Minister for Slovenians Abroad Helena Jaklitsch presented Argentinian Slovenian Alenka Prijatelj with a certificate of appreciation from the Government Office for Slovenians Abroad in Ljubljana on Monday. Prijatelj received the hono...

Mon, 23 May 2022 21:47:21 +0000
Cedevita Olimpija fail to make it to ABA League final
Belgrade – Slovenian basketball club Cedevita Olimpija lost against Serbia’s Crvena Zvezda 78:88 in Belgrade on Monday in what was the decisive third game of the semi-final of the regional first-tier ABA League. The Ljubljana-based club t...

Mon, 23 May 2022 21:46:43 +0000
Children’s motor skills remain poor post-epidemic
Ljubljana – The fresh results of tests measuring the fitness of Slovenian primary school children show that their motor skills remain poor even after they switched back to in-person learning and PE classes. Experts urge decision makers to take ...

Mon, 23 May 2022 21:45:35 +0000
Covid situation stable during the weekend
Ljubljana – Two more Covid patients died in the last three days and currently 43 patients are in hospital with Covid as their main condition, including four in intensive care, the Health Ministry said on Twitter on Monday. On Friday, 289 infect...

Mon, 23 May 2022 21:45:03 +0000
RTV Slovenija staff on strike: We’re fighting for public media
Ljubljana – RTV Slovenija staff went on an hour-long strike on Monday to reiterate their demands for journalistic and editorial autonomy and an end to politicisation of the public broadcaster, while highlighting its role in a democracy. Complai...

Mon, 23 May 2022 21:44:32 +0000
Delo reflects on Golob’s pragmatism, presidential election
Ljubljana – The newspaper Delo writes about the pragmatism of the outgoing and incoming governments in Monday’s front-page commentary, noting that voters’ potential disappointment with the Robert Golob government could affect the ou...

Mon, 23 May 2022 21:43:55 +0000
Maribor claim 16th national football championship title
Murska Sobota – Maribor defeated the defending champions Mura 3:1 in Murska Sobota on Sunday to claim their 16th national championship title. They turned the things around in the last round, leapfrogging Koper, who played a goalless draw with B...

Mon, 23 May 2022 21:43:29 +0000
Slovenian film Love In Plane Sight wins main Tik Tok prize in Cannes
Cannes – Love In Plane Sight, a short film by Slovenian arts student Matej Rimanić, has won one of the two main prizes of the Tik Tok competition organised at the Cannes Film Festival for the first time this year. The short comedy by Rimanić,...

Mon, 23 May 2022 21:43:02 +0000
Slovenia recommended to reduce dependency on fossil fuels
Brussels – The European Commission recommends to all EU countries, including Slovenia, to diversify their imports of fossil fuels and reduce their dependency on fossil fuels by increasing the use of renewable sources of energy and by strengthen...

Mon, 23 May 2022 21:42:35 +0000
Supreme Court annuls sentence in cannabis-laced cookie incident
Maribor – The Supreme Court has annulled the 15-month suspended sentence handed out to a confectioner from Hoče for baking THC-laced cookies to a health inspector back in August 2017 and offering them to customers. The court said that it had n...



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