Judoka Andreja Leški won silver for Slovenia at the World Championships in Doha on Wednesday, having to concede to multiple world and Olympic champion Clarisse Agbegnenou of France in the final yet again.

Mlinotest, a leading Slovenian food group, opened on Wednesday a fully renovated dried pasta factory in its home town Ajdovščina, an EUR 7 million investment that almost doubles the facility's production capacity. The factory has been thoroughly renovated and expanded with two new production lines and two packaging lines.

The parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee backed on Wednesday a declaration that says the Holodomor, a famine with which the Soviet authorities starved to death millions of Ukrainians in 1933-34, was genocide. The document will be put to a vote at a plenary session, and only an MP of the coalition Left voted against it.

Parliamentary committees will start debating a revised budget for 2023 on Wednesday. The revision follows the cabinet's restructuring at the beginning of this year. The budget deficit is now projected at EUR 2.9 billion or 4.5% of GDP, down from the 3.3 billion in the valid budget document.