Morning Headlines for Slovenia: Monday, 4 November 2019

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Morning Headlines for Slovenia: Monday, 4 November 2019 JL Flanner

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This summary is provided by the STA:

Second WWII bomb safely defused in Maribor

MARIBOR - A 500kg World War Two bomb was safely defused in Maribor after hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes in the vicinity. In the largest such operation in Slovenia's second largest city since 1945, the authorities called on 1,000 people living within a 300-metre radius of the bomb to leave their homes. A further 2,200 residents in a 300-600-metre radius were told to keep indoors and away from the windows facing the bomb site close to the city's main coach station. In a similar operation, a 250kg bomb was defused in Maribor on Thursday, causing the evacuation of 80 people.

Slovenia joining UNIDO Industrial Development Board

ABU DHABI, UAE - A delegation headed by Economy Ministry State Secretary Aleš Cantarutti is taking part in the 18th session of the General Conference of the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Abu Dhabi, discussing the significance of inclusive and sustainable economic development. During the session the delegation will meet UNIDO Director-General LI Yong, and other UNIDO officials, while Slovenia will become a member of the organisation's Industrial Development Board for the first time.

Ex-president rebukes elites over Croatia-Slovenia relations

KUČIBREG, Croatia - Milan Kučan, Slovenia's first president, criticised political elites in Slovenia and Croatia for their lack of initiative to resolve issues troubling bilateral relations, as he addressed a ceremony commemorating WWII battles in which Croatian, Italian and Slovenian Partisan resistance members fought German forces together. He also called for dialogue to resolve the Catalan crisis, arguing the issue at stake in Catalonia was a matter of freedom, human rights and democracy.

Court upholds regulator's decision to fine Sava

LJUBLJANA - The Administrative Court ordered Sava, the indebted tourism holding, to pay a fine of EUR 300,000 for failing to offload its stake in the bank Gorenjska Banka on time as decreed by the central bank. Reporting on the news on Saturday, the public broadcaster TV Slovenija said that Sava had filed an appeal against the court's decision. Banka Slovenije ordered Sava in 2015 to sell its 37.6% stake in Gorenjska Banka within six months, but Sava did not sell the stake until this year.

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