The Supreme Court has annulled the verdict in the Balkan Warrior drug trafficking case and ordered retrial, and the defendants, including the chief defendant Dragan Tošić, are being released.

The port operator Luka Koper generated EUR 168.2 million in net sales revenue in the first nine months of the year, a 9% increase year-on-year, while net profit increased by 3% to EUR 22.4 million, shows an unaudited report released on Friday.

Coronavirus keeps retreating in Slovenia with Thursday's 2,364 new cases pushing the 14-day incidence below 2,000. However, official data also show the number of ICU rising to a new high as the disease claimed 17 more lives.

Prime Minister Janez Janša held a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday. The issues discussed included the situation in the EU's eastern neighbourhood and the Polish-Belarusian border, the EU's common position on migration pressure, and the build-up of Russian military on the border with Ukraine.

Holiday season is starting in Slovenian towns as hundreds of thousands of lights will be lit and Christmas fairs launched in major towns on Friday and Saturday. However, due to the epidemiological situation no mass events will be held on the occasion.