Rijeka – A 45-year-old Koper man wanted in Slovenia since 2015 for swindling the NLB bank out of more than half a million euro has been arrested in Rijeka, Croatia, and is now awaiting extradition to Slovenia, a Croatian news portal has reporte...

Maribor – The Maribor Theatre Festival, the country’s biggest, is getting under way in Slovenia’s second largest city on Monday with a section devoted to development of new theatre audiences. The two-week festival will see 16 produc...

Ljubljana – Tanja Fajon, candidate for foreign minister, announced that Slovenia would return to the core EU countries as she singled out commitment to shared values and the rule of law, and a distancing from the Visegrad bloc, in her presentat...

Ljubljana – The outgoing government lifted all remaining Covid restrictions as it repealed on Monday the main decree governing anti-Covid measures under a motion by the Health Ministry’s advisory group for coronavirus. The advisory group ...

Ljubljana – Klemen Boštjančič was endorsed as candidate for finance minister on Monday after laying out a blueprint for tax changes that would result in higher proceeds centred around a real estate tax, and tweaks to existing taxes coupled w...

Maribor – A humanoid robot named Frida is being introduced to a clinical setting at the UKC Maribor hospital in what the head of the HosmartAI project Vojko Flis says is the world’s first. Robots are already helping out in hospitals, but ...

Ljubljana – Marjan Šarec appeared as the candidate for defence minister before the relevant parliamentary committee on Monday, noting that whether Slovenia should have an army was not a dilemma. “We can only talk about how it should look...

Ljubljana – Tatjana Bobnar, the candidate for interior minister, presented her vision for the ministry at the relevant parliamentary committee on Monday, stressing efforts to restore trust in police work, independence and depoliticisation. She ...

Ljubljana – The news of Boris Pahor’s death resonates in Slovenia and abroad, especially in Italy, where the Slovenian author died at his home in Trieste, aged 108. Writers, politicians, media, minority representatives and others have bee...

Slovenj Gradec – Slovenj Gradec, a town in northern Slovenia which entered into a partnership with the Japanese city of Myoko more than two decades ago, is celebrating Japanese cinema this week as well as marking 30 years of diplomatic ties bet...