Janez Janša, the former Slovenian prime minister, responded to a call by the leader of a fellow opposition party for uniting a fragmented right bloc to form the country's next government by telling him that he and his party "blew it irreversibly".

Residents on both sides of the Slovenian-Italian border have been able to return to their homes after a Slovenian bomb disposal squad safely defused a World War II-era bomb found on a construction site close to the border in the western city of Nova Gorica.

Kenyan runner Chepkemoi Tele won the 28th Ljubljana Marathon by setting a new women's record of the event in two hours, 20 minutes and 17 seconds, while Tamire Getaneh Molla from Ethiopia reigned victorious among male athletes with 2:06:29.