Slovenia has an increasingly strong voice in the international community advocating for human rights and dignity, PM Robert Golob told the main ceremony marking Independence and Unity Day on Friday. He stressed the importance of empowering the young to carve out their own way. A special session to mark the holiday was also held in parliament.

Slovenia's winter sports athlete Anamarija Lampič finished third in the women's Biathlon World Cup sprint event in Le Grand-Bornand, France on Friday in what is her first podium finish after she switched to this sport from cross-country skiing in 2022.

It is our duty and right to work together with like-minded countries which do not want to be silent or become collateral damage of the interests of superpowers, President Nataša Pirc Musar said in her address to the annual meeting of Slovenian diplomats on Friday.

A prosecutor in the high-profile trial against the Slovenian cell of the Montenegrin criminal cartel known as the Kavač Clan responded on Thursday to accusations from a declassified report on the Security and Protection Centre, a special police unit protecting senior officials, saying they were an attempt to discredit her.