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In Russian court, Belarusian model apologizes for U.S. election claim
A Belarusian model and self-styled sex instructor who last year claimed to have evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election said Saturday that she apologizes to a Russian tycoon for the claim and won't say more about the matter. Anastasia Vashukevich made ...
A strip club in Britain has won a battle to remain open after local authorities were told many of the dancers who work there are feminists. The Urban Tiger club in the western city of Bristol had faced calls for its license to be removed, ...
Thailand deports 'sex seminar' Belarusian model who claimed to have evidence of Trump secrets
A model from Belarus who was arrested during a "sex training seminar" in Thailand and then claimed to have evidence of Russian interference in U.S. President Donald Trump's election was deported on Thursday. Thai authorities said Anastasia Vashukevich, 27, two other Belarussians and five Russians ...
Ethical, diverse and not a silicone breast in sight — feminist filmmakers are standing up to mass-market porn with adult movies that are free of male domination and gender stereotypes. Their films aim to show realistic, consent-based and egalitarian sex instead of the superhuman bedroom ...
Sex workers say Tumblr's move to ban explicit images leaves them at risk
Sex workers said they would lose work or be forced to risk soliciting on the streets as Tumblr introduced curbs on sharing explicit imagery on Monday. The U.S.-based microblogging site announced the ban two weeks ago, saying it had a responsibility to consider the impact ...
Spain busts ring that trafficked in disabled Romanians to beg on streets as mimes
Spanish police said Sunday they had smashed a trafficking ring that brought Romanians, many of them with disabilities, to Spain where they were forced to beg in the streets dressed as mimes and human statues. Officers arrested three suspected members of the gang, including its ...
An acclaimed U.S. charity operating in Liberia has admitted to major failings after girls at a school set up to save them from a life of sexual exploitation were systematically raped. "We are profoundly, deeply sorry," the charity More Than Me said on its website ...
Black magic traps Nigerians in sex slavery abroad
When lesions broke out on Florence's face, she thought she had crossed a black magic curse that had been cast on her as she left Nigeria to work in Russia's sex trade. Florence is one of a rising number of poor women lured in recent ...
U.S. Border Patrol agent arrested in serial killings of sex workers
Texas state troopers arrested a U.S. Border Patrol supervisor Saturday who they say went on a two-week serial killing spree that left four female sex workers dead and ended only when a fifth woman escaped from him at a gas station and found help. Juan ...
Basketball players handed one-year bans
The four men's national basketball team players who allegedly paid women for sex in Jakarta during the ongoing Asian Games have been handed a one-year ban by the Japan Basketball Association, the organization announced on Wednesday. The ban, effective from the announcement, includes B. League ...
Disgraced basketball players face the music after sex scandal
The four men’s national basketball team players who were penalized by the Japanese Olympic Committee for allegedly paying women for sex last weekend in Jakarta, where they were competing at the ongoing Asian Games, were sent home on Monday and faced up to the ...
