Slovenia's Tadej Pogačar has won the Tour of Slovenia, the country's biggest cycling road race, after defending the leading position in the final stage from Ljubljana to Novo Mesto on Sunday.

Ivan Zidar, who dominated the Slovenian construction industry for decades until his demise in the mid-2000s, has died aged 82, Delo newspaper reported on Sunday.

Igor Kršinar, a journalist for the political magazine Reporter, has initiated a private prosecution against Prime Minister Janez Janša over two Twitter posts in 2019 that implied he was a drug user.

The Covid-19 pandemic having accelerated the digital transformation, one of the pillars of the recovery of Europe's economies, digital services and artificial intelligence (AI) have become major priorities for the bloc. Slovenia's EU presidency hopes to achieve progress on these dossiers.

Slovenia recorded 91 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday, down by over 40% from the week before and the continuation of a weeks-long decline. Three patients with Covid-19 died, the latest government data show.