The government of Miro Cerar is Slovenia's eighth post-communist government, the right-wing magazine Demokracija comments on Thursday, noting that 16 years of "centre-left, socialist and post-communist governments" are largely to blame for the deep economic, social and moral crisis in Slovenia. ...
President Borut Pahor met his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in New York on Wednesday, in what was the first meeting at the presidential level between Slovenia and Iran. The presidents talked about boosting cooperation and exchanged views on topical regional and global issues. ...
British expert Keith Miles has stepped down from the supervisory board of the state-owned NKBM bank with immediate effect. While the bank did not reveal the reasons for his resignation Wednesday, Miles himself expounded at length about his move in an op-ed for Finance Thursday. ...
Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec told the STA on Thursday that while Slovenia was committed to the fight against international terrorism, the fact was that it did not give its consent to be put on the State Department's list of coalition partners in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS). ...
The third Bonaca fair on camping and caravanning, nautical tourism and green energy opened on Thursday in Portorož Marina. Running until 28 September, the fair will also feature a number of accompanying events and a competition for the skipper of the year. ...
Business sentiment indicator in Slovenia was up in September, improving by one percentage point over August and eleven points over the same month last year, data from the Statistics Office show. It was also two points above the long-term average. ...
President of the Murska Sobota Local Court Darinka Pušenjak is facing disciplinary sanctions over an incident from late August when she gave false personal information to the police, the daily Delo reported on Thursday. ...
The Bank Assets Management Company (BAMC), Slovenia's bad bank, said Thursday it would push for legislative changes now that its operation is in full swing and it expects to shortly receive EUR 450m in assets from Abanka, the last of the three banks bailed out and nationalised in December. ...
The Islamic Community, the main Muslim religious group in Slovenia, has labelled the recent landmark translation of the Quran from Arabic into Slovenian as "unprofessional", which it says is the reason why it did not endorse it. ...
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Indonesian broadcasting commission tells television network to cut indecent parts of the programme or show it at a later time With his penchant for mooning and blurting out risqué spoonerisms, Crayon Shin-chan has delighted Japanese children, and infuriated their parents, for more than two decades. But now the precocious five-year-old has met his match in the form of Indonesian regulators, who...
To celebrate 60 years since Japan's Air Self Defence Force (ASDF) was founded, servicemen ride plane-shaped scooters at a ceremony in Tokyo. The novelty scooters are based on the design of fighter aircraft. Those who take part in the ceremony are staff members who never leave the ground, such as mechanics and support staff Continue reading... ...
Prague - The Czech Presidential Office received a threatening letter with a white powder that was addressed to President Milos Zeman today, the police have told CTK. ......
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Prague - The Czech Chamber of Deputies today passed an amendment to the income tax law that raises the tax relief for the second and further child, reintroduces the relief for working pensioners and......
Prague - It is good news that Czech teachers will see their pay increase soon, but this decision, initiated by Education Minister Marcel Chladek, is unfortunately his only positive initiative so far,......
Prague - The Prague concert of the Czech hard rock band Kabat, at which the group celebrated 25 years of its existence on Saturday night, has been the concert with the largest audience organised in......
A shaky ceasefire in Ukraine alone is not enough to end the conflict, Swiss President Didier Burkhalter, the head of the OSCE, said on Monday, calling for a political process and urging dialogue over sanctions....
Two accidents in the Swiss Alps over the weekend serve as a reminder to be careful when hiking through fields with cows — particularly when they’re with their calves....
Switzerland lost its first qualification match for the 2016 European football championships in Basel on Monday night against England, who won 2-0....