Canada's men's basketball team faces a must-win game against South Korea, after losing its opening game to Slovenia on Tuesday."Canada dropped its opener at the Olympic men's basketball qualifier on Tuesday and now faces a must-win game against South Korea.Jaka Lakovic had a...
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Every year Ljubljana comes to life when dancers, actors and other performerms take over the streets for 4 days. Shows are free and anyone can stop by and watch. I attended ballet dance show this year and it was very...
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Tragic accident happened yesterday on Sava River in Slovenia. So far eight bodies have been found and 5 are still missing. Rescue teams are still working in hard conditions to find the rest of missing people."LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) -- Divers pulled seven bodies out of the...
highlighted by Zlender | 3 wks ago | updated 2 wks ago 1511 views | 2 comments
Two most popular rock bands in Slovenia Siddharta and Dan D are touring together. Last concert was held in old Koper square which created a briliant ambient with church tower on the left side and old medieval stone...
created by Zlender | 1 year ago | updated 3 wks ago 1362 views | 4 comments
Every Eu rotating president promises to do something to change EU, some succede others fail but the France president Nicolas Sarkozy has looks like he is having a different solution to the Eu's problems. He said "something isn't right" witht eh European Union forgetting that...
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Robovox arrived to Ljubljana to give people a voice. I heard that it will come to Ljubljana but still seeing a 8m high robot is quite impressive." RoboVox is a large (8m high) interactive public sound installation by...
highlighted by Zlender | 5 wks ago | updated 5 wks ago 333 views | 3 comments
US President is in town and all radios are reporting which roads are closed where extra security is present etc. But as much as I can see EURO 2008 is still main event and nobody really cares about anything else"US President George W. Bush arrived at the Ljubljana...
highlighted by Zlender | 6 wks ago | updated 6 wks ago 236 views | 6 comments
" A FOUR-year-old American girl shot herself in the chest after grabbing a gun from her grandmother's handbag while on a trip to the local supermarket.The girl was critically injured in the incident overnight, which happened when she grabbed the gun while sitting in a...
At the fag end of his presidency US President George W. Bush has started trip to Europe today to lobby for more help for Afghanistan & co-operation on Climate change. " US President George W. Bush heads to Europe Monday to ask leaders already sizing...
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" SLOVENIA today began shutting down its only nuclear power plant in Krsko following a leak in the cooling system that authorities said does not represent a danger for people nor the environment.In Brussels, the...
This is all about stats, according to BBC news story, UK has issued recorded number of citizenship last year.Just look at the figures, which say all about the story at a glance."A record 164,635 people were granted British citizenship last year, government figures have...
"At the end of April, the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman of Slovenia found that human rights are being violated on the reality show Big Brother. Despite this serious accusation, the show goes on.The Human Rights Ombudsman, Zdenka Čebašek-Travnik, has found that the...
highlighted by Zlender | 9 wks ago | updated 9 wks ago 116 views | 0 comments
Finally we see drops in apartment prices hopefully rents will go down too so I'll stop thinking about moving to New York to save some money."While the prices of one-bedroom flats continued to rise in Ljubljana in the...
highlighted by Zlender | 12 wks ago | updated 12 wks ago 192 views | 0 comments
Though I like everything that can make my travels smoother and faster I think there are 2 bigger problems. First is security control which in my experience takes a lot longer than simple passport control and the...
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According to organizers there were around 35.000 people on a first all European union protest in Ljubljana. Aims of the protest was to bring the increasing differences in wages and profits, as well as the falling...
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