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Earlier this month, last-place late night host Jimmy Kimmel mocked the accent of First Lady Melania Trump, and now the Slovenian residents of the town she grew up in are telling the far-left Kimmel to back off.

An out-of-court settlement was reached in a libel lawsuit filed by first lady Melania Trump over an article in a magazine published in her home country that claimed she worked as a paid escort during an international modeling career that pre-dated her marriage to President Donald Trump.

Multinational automaker corporations like Tesla, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Volkswagen used illegal foreign workers to build their plants in the United States, according to a recently unsealed lawsuit.

Contents: France’s Emmanuel Macron accuses EU countries of ‘social and fiscal dumping’; Britain sees a big fall in net migration since Brexit vote

German car giant Mercedes-Benz dropped the importation of foreign workers to build their Vance, Alabama-based auto plant following a report on how Americans are often left behind by multinational corporations.

Foreign workers are being imported to the United States to build auto plants, a recent investigation finds.

SEVNICA, Slovenia — It’s a short book, just 42 pages and some filled with photographs. But it goes a long way in explaining the facts about the strong, proud people who carved a small but free nation out of the former Communist Yugoslavia and produced one of the most famous women in the world: Melania Trump.

On Jan. 20, 2017 the nation’s attention was fixed on the west balcony of the Capitol building in Washington, where President-elect Donald J. Trump and soon-to-be First Lady Melania Trump were about to arrive for the 45th swearing-in of a U.S. president.

First lady Melania Trump told the people of Poland that the safety and security of the American people are her husband’s “main focus” as president. She also said living in safety and security is a universal desire and one she hopes all people in the world can someday enjoy.

First Lady Melania Trump’s small hometown in central Slovenia is booming with business thanks to her ascendance to power and fame in the United States, according to the town’s mayor.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has accused European Union leaders of encouraging illegal immigration and asking Europeans to put migrants ahead of their own families.

Melania Trump smiles at passersby on a highway in Sevnica, Solvenia that reads “Welcome to the Hometown of First Lady” — a billboard that represents more than a celebration of its most famous citizen.

After Melania Trump met with Pope Francis in the Vatican Wednesday, her spokeswoman confirmed that the First Lady is indeed a Roman Catholic, the first to occupy her post since Jackie Kennedy.

(AP) – Slovenia’s lawmakers have backed overwhelmingly a controversial tightening of asylum procedures designed to avert a big influx of migrants into the country.

Slovenia’s centrist Prime Minister has predicted “conflict” in Europe if the migrant crisis escalates again, and defended the construction of fences.

Contents: Migrants trapped in Serbia march toward border with Hungary; The refugee problem continues, despite EU-Turkey deal

LJLJUBLJANA, Slovenia—In the gray drizzle of the Slovenian capital, a crowd of hundreds gathered in February to protest the flow of foreign refugees through their tiny country. Confronted with riot police, some cried, “Traitors!”

(Reuters) – Slovenia is due to receive the first 30 refugees and migrants from Greece under the European Union migrant relocation scheme, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. EU leaders in September approved the transfer of about 160,000 asylum seekers

The Austrian army is leading a training exercise with national police to prepare for what they call a migrant crisis “worst case scenario”. On Thursday members of the Austrian armed forces along with the federal police engaged in an exercise

Slovenia announced Tuesday that it will refuse the transit of most migrants through its territory in a bid to seal off the Balkan route used by hundreds of thousands of people seeking a new life in Europe. The dramatic twist

Contents: Greece facing humanitarian crisis with thousands of refugees on Macedonia border; Tsipras: ‘Greece will not become a warehouse for souls’; Greece recalls ambassador to Austria as refugee crisis worsens

Slovenian police are investigating after 30 inhabitants of a migrant centre absconded, leaving local parents deeply concerned for the safety of their children. The Vrhnika town housing centre for migrants is separated from the local junior school by just a low fence

The Slovenian parliament late Monday authorised the army to help police manage the flow of migrants crossing the Croatian border into Europe’s Schengen passport-free zone, which has been rocked by the refugee crisis. The bill sailed through, approved by 69

(AFP) – Slovenia said Sunday it would clamp down on the number of migrants allowed to enter the country, ahead of tougher measures set to be announced by neighbouring Austria later this week to slow down the influx. The two

VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria will extend its border controls if Turkey does not take back refugees picked up at sea on their way to Greece, Chancellor Werner Faymann said in an interview with the daily Oesterreich. He had earlier said

VIENNA – Austria has sent hundreds of migrants back to neighbouring Slovenia in the past three days for lying about their nationality in an apparent attempt to improve their chances of being granted asylum, a police spokesman said on Tuesday.

LJUBLJANA (Reuters) – Slovenia rejected on Sunday a law that would give same-sex couples the right to marry and adopt children in its second vote on gay rights in four years. About 63.4 percent of voters rejected the law in

KOPER (SLOVENIA) (AFP) –  Slovenia on Sunday began voting in a referendum on whether to allow the largely-Catholic EU member state to become Europe’s first ex-communist country to allow same-sex marriage. Polling stations opened promptly at 7:00am (0600 GMT), although hardly

Pope Francis has urged Slovenians to “uphold family values” as the country votes in a referendum on gay marriage. The vote could see Slovenia becoming the first Eastern European country to legalise gay marriage, in what is considered a strongly

Ban the burqa and enact urgent new immigration laws. That is the simple prescription for social order from Slovenia’s parliamentary opposition as the tiny European nation struggles to cope with the migrant invasion convulsing its borders and interior. A new bill proposed by the

The United Nations has condemned national profiling of migrants by Balkan countries, insisting that everyone has the right to claim asylum. Four Balkan countries have now shut their borders to people from nations not at war. More than 1,000 migrants

Austria is to build a 2.3 mile border ‘barrier’ on the 205 mile border with Slovenia in a non-attempt to control the flow of migrants into the country. The plan is a watered down version of an already significantly reduced border fence

Contents: Arms race grows between Serbia and Croatia; EU and African leaders clash amid accusations of ‘Fortress Europe’; Sweden, Slovenia and Denmark take steps to block the migrant flow

Valletta (AFP) – EU leaders hope Thursday to clinch an aid-for-cooperation deal with their African partners to tackle an unprecedented migration crisis and rebuff fears a “fortress” Europe is emerging. The concerns were aired at a rare EU-Africa summit in

VELIKI OBREZ/GIBINA, Slovenia (Reuters) – Slovenia started erecting a razor wire fence along parts of its border with Croatia amid heavy security on Wednesday, saying it wanted better control over the surge of migrants passing through as they make their

Germany has thrashed out a common strategy with Austria and Slovenia which will see it take 7,200 migrants a day. The idea is to facilitate the registration of those migrants applying for refugee status through more regulated means, reports EurActiv Germany. In