Slovenia's star rider Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) won a second consecutive stage at the Tour de France on Sunday, defeating archrival Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) to increase his overall lead against the Tour defending champion to 3:09 minutes and tightening his grip on the yellow jersey.

Slovenia's star rider Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) won his second consecutive stage at the Tour de France on Sunday, defeating archrival Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) to increase his overall lead against the Tour defending champion to 3:09 minutes.

As Slovenia's health system has been awaiting a thorough health reform for years, Health Minister Valentina Prevolnik Rupel, who has been in office since October, has told the STA in an interview that her ministry is working on around a dozen bills, including to ban dual practice and reform the health contribution to make it more fair.

Slovenia's senior officials have strongly condemned the attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump at a campaign rally on Saturday, saying that they are deeply shocked at this instance of political violence.

As a heatwave with temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius persists in the country, heavy thunderstorms hit the north-eastern region of Štajerska on Saturday afternoon. Slovenska Bistrica was hit the most as hail the size of an egg hit the municipality after the Environment Agency issued the second highest alert for central Slovenia and Štajerska.