Morning Headlines for Slovenia: Sunday, 5 January 2019

By , 05 Jan 2020, 04:43 AM News
Morning Headlines for Slovenia: Sunday, 5 January 2019 Flickr: Kheng Cheng TOH CC-by-2.0

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This summary is provided by the STA:

Militia leader Šiško apprehended

MARIBOR - Police apprehended Andrej Šiško, the self-styled leader of a militia that should have reported to prison to serve out his sentence for incitement to subversion of the constitutional order. He was apprehended at a commemoration of a major WWII battle in the Pohorje hills as he was about to approach President Borut Pahor. According to Anica Bidar, who co-chairs Šiško's United Slovenia movement, Šiško came to the ceremony to surrender himself to police.

Slovenian soldiers in Iraq are safe, ministry says

ERBIL, Iraq - Members of the Slovenian contingent in northern Iraq are safe and are staying in the Erbil base, the Slovenian Defence Ministry said after some media reported Slovenian troops were in Baghdad, where Iranian General Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US air strike on Friday. After the air strike, the situation in the country deteriorated, so the training of Iraqi security forces in which Slovenian troops also participated has been temporarily suspended. The ministry said it was monitoring the situation.

Composer Hugo Wolf to take centre stage on cultural scene in 2020

LJUBLJANA - Slovenia will observe 2020 as the Year of Hugo Wolf, the Austrian composer of Slovenian descent who was born in Slovenj Gradec 160 years ago. His birth place and many other Slovenian as well as foreign cities will honour the anniversary with a series of cultural events. The highlight will be a concert by the RTV Slovenija Symphony Orchestra interpreting Wolf's work which will take place in his home town in late May and will be broadcast on television as well.

Cross-country skier Lampič victorious in Val di Fiemme

VAL DI FIEMME, Italy - Slovenian cross-country skier Anamarija Lampič dominated the World Cup freestyle sprint event in Val di Fiemme, Italy, in what was her third World Cup win. Lampič is now in the lead in the series' sprint events with 75 points, and has climbed from the tenth to seventh place overall. Lampič recorded her first World Cup victory in February 2017 and her second in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, last Sunday.

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