Franko

Hiša Franko in Kobarid in northwest Slovenia remains one of the world's top 50 restaurants according to the British trade magazine Restaurant. The restaurant run by celebrity chef Ana Roš even improved its standing, ranking 32nd, up from the 34th place last year.

The jury was impressed by the restaurant's philosophy and values, Roš's team said.

Slovenian photographer Jošt Franko has won The Aftermath Project, a prestigious US grant supporting post-conflict storytelling in photography, for a project documenting a community and landscape deeply marred and marginalised by the war in the former Yugoslavia.

Sometimes the best stories happen unexpectedly – in this case the collaboration between Hiša Franko and self-made hippy farmers Jeanne and Matteo.

A senior official from the Serbian State Security Service, Franko 'Frenki' Simatovic, arrived at a covert paramilitary training camp near the town of Ilok in Croatia in the spring of 1992 - one of many that would allegedly be set up by Serbian security officials during the wars that erupted as Yugoslavia collapsed.

"Milosevic's men on the ground" was the most common description of these two leading Serbian state security officials - Jovica Stanisic, chief of the interior ministry's State Security Service and his right-hand man, Franko 'Frenki' Simatovic, commander of the service's Special Operations Unit.

The third and final day of closing arguments in the retrial of former Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko 'Frenki' Simatovic at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday saw disputes between prosecution and defence over incidents from the 1990s.

In June, at the time covid-stricken restaurant industry desperately needed a push, Slovenia got its first Michelin guide - the stars always mean a lot to chefs, but in this very particular case they were literal lifesavers.

Former Serbian State Security operative Radivoje Micic told the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals on Thursday that controversial businesswoman Dafina Milanovic, who ran her bank as a pyramid scheme, did not help defendant Franko 'Frenki' Simatovic in 1993 by giving him money or helping him import arms and aircraft.

Absolute panic was noted at dawn on Friday when Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made his shock announcement for a referendum. People rushed to ATM machines withdrawing as much as they could in the fear that banks may close leaving people without money. Huge lines formed as people waited to withdraw as much money as possible.