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Girl, 15, was guru's sex slave, Keith Raniere jury told
Mack, Bronfman and three other female co-defendants' guilty pleas for various charges in March and April leave Raniere as the sole person to face trial. The subgroup included "slaves" who were expected to obey "masters" in a pyramid-like structure, with Mr Raniere standing alone at the top as the only man. [Full Article...]
Pakistan arrests eight Chinese citizens for trafficking girls
Several illegal matchmaking centres were opened in Lahore and other areas to lure poor Pakistani women, especially Christian , to marry Chinese men who were either visiting or working in Pakistan. "The gang would bear all expenses of the marriage and also give cash and gifts to the bride's family", it said. At least 13 Chinese have been arrested so far in the case, The Express Tribune reporte... [Full Article...]
Four dead after blast near major Sufi shrine in Lahore
Lahore police chief Ghazanfar Ali said that police officers were the apparent target of the bombing outside the shrine which is known as Data Darbar. Sufi worshippers, who follow a mystical strain of Islam, have frequently been the target of bloody attacks by Islamist terrorists including the Islamic State group in Pakistan. [Full Article...]
Pamela Anderson thinks Julian Assange is 'world’s most innocent man'
Federal prosecutors in the United States unsealed a computer hacking indictment against Assange just hours after authorities in the United Kingdom arrested him, accusing Assange of a conspiracy with former U.S. "We just have to keep fighting, because it is unfair". Soooo hot! Pamela Anderson has denied she has a sexual relationship with Julian Assange . [Full Article...]
IRAN ALERT: US tensions with Tehran SOAR ahead of nuclear anniversary
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has been under intense domestic political pressure to produce some kind of countermeasure following the U.S. withdrawal. According to nuclear inspectors, Tehran has kept its nuclear program within the main limits imposed by the accord. A second French official later said that if Tehran failed to comply with the deal, the issue would be treated through a dispute... [Full Article...]
Trump Tax Returns Show $1.17B Losses '85-'94 — NY Times
Trump ran for president branding himself as a self-made billionaire, touting his financial success, but he has been steadfast in his refusal to release his tax returns to the public, despite mounting pressure from Congress. Until now, Trump's early career in real estate was believed to have reached a peak in the late 1980s, when Trump wrote the " The Art of the Deal " - and then collapsed into los... [Full Article...]
Canada will bear cost of repatriating trash-filled containers from Philippines
Between 2013 and 2014, Canada shipped more than 100 containers of household trash, including plastic bottles and bags, newspapers and used adult diapers to the Philippines. Teddy Locsin Jr., the Filipino Secretary of Foreign Affairs, tweeted on Tuesday that Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte "expects the garbage to be seaborne by May 15". [Full Article...]
Sacked UK Defence Minister planned to invade Zimbabwe
He told the Daily Mail: 'They (Downing Street) realise the hot water they are in because they have got no evidence for why I have been sacked . An investigation was launched after newspapers reported that the National Security Council, which meets in private of Britain, had consented to let Huawei participate in some facets of Britain 5G wireless communications network. [Full Article...]