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Sat, 13 Aug 2022 22:53:42 +0000
Climber Janja Garnbret crowned European champion
Munich – Slovenia’s best climber Janja Garnbret was crowned the European champion in lead in Munich on Saturday, her second European champion title after winning one in combined in 2017. Garnbret is aiming for two more gold medals at the ...

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 22:52:54 +0000
Tourism figures nearing or already topping pre-Covid levels
Ljubljana/Maribor/Koper/Bled – Tourism workers all over Slovenia are busy as a bee since this year’s peak tourist season has seen figures either closing in on the pre-Covid levels or even surpassing them. The coast, the capital, mountaino...

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 22:52:26 +0000
Delo criticises Golob’s attitude to media
Ljubljana – Defections of prominent journalists to politics are undoubtedly deepening the crisis of journalism and undermining its credibility, Delo says in Saturday’s front-page commentary after two journalists have joined the Government...

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 22:51:50 +0000
Dnevnik urges buying aircraft to fight fires
Ljubljana – Dnevnik newspaper says in Saturday’s commentary Attack from Air the Only Option that Slovenia urgently needs an aircraft to fight wildfires, stressing that climate change is here and dry summers are no longer in some distant f...

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 22:51:00 +0000
Slovenian prisons lack 15% of prison officers
Ljubljana – Prisons lack more than 100 prison officers to meet the security standards, a problem exacerbated by low pay and low interest in this career. The Prison Administration employs 554 prison officers and 16 candidates for the job, while ...

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 22:50:21 +0000
Over 15% state-owned stake in Cetis up for sale
Celje – Slovenian Sovereign Holding (SSH) is seeking binding bids for a 15.4% stake in Cetis, a Celje-based company specialised in printing secure documents such as passports. Potential investors have until 9 September at 1pm to send their bind...

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 22:49:49 +0000
Hikers warned against using navigation in mountains
Ljubljana – The Kranj Police Department has called on those heading to the mountains to use marked trails and official maps rather than resorting to GPS navigation, which can lead into dangerous situation. The appeal comes after rescue teams ha...

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 22:49:16 +0000
Govt officials express condolences over shooting in Montenegro
Ljubljana – Slovenian PM Robert Golob has strongly condemned the shooting spree in Montenegro which killed eleven people in Cetinje on Friday. He took to Twitter last evening to express his condolences to the relatives of the victims and to his...

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 22:48:50 +0000
Slovenian PEN condemns attack on Salman Rushdie
Ljubljana – The Slovenian PEN Centre has joined writers, celebrities and politicians in the West in condeming yesterday’s attack on award-winning author Salman Rushdie at an onstage event in the US, which has left him with severe stab wou...

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 22:48:08 +0000
Paper rebukes NIJZ over wait times in healthcare
Koper – In Saturday’s commentary headlined Patients Not the Only Ones to Be Blamed for Waiting Times, the newspaper Primorske Novice says that the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) is also to be blamed for long waiting times, hav...



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