Police stop traffic in sex slaves

Police stop traffic in sex slaves

AUSTRALIA: A man was charged in Australia with forcing Indonesian
women into prostitution on Wednesday while 14 women were captured
during raids on brothels in Melbourne, as police moved to
clampdown on the traffic in Asian sex slaves.

Indonesian national, Hosea Yoe, 47, appeared in a Sydney court
charged with luring three Indonesian women to Sydney with
promises of glamorous jobs and then forcing them to work as
prostitutes.

Yoe is the fourth person to be charged after an Australian
Federal Police investigation into how the three women ended up in
a Sydney brothel.

The women escaped from the brothel in June and fled to a
police station in Sydney's suburbs where they claimed they had
been kept as sex slaves after arriving in Australia expecting
work in public relations and hospitality. --AFP

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Egyptians die in pool of animal blood
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Egyptians die in pool of animal blood

JORDAN: Seven Egyptian workers drowned in a pool of animal blood
they were assigned to clean at a slaughter house, a Jordanian
Civil Defense spokesman said on Wednesday.

The bodies of the seven men - aged between 18 and 40 - were
found on Tuesday in a pool of sheep and chicken blood at a farm
in Qweirah, a town outside the Red Sea resort of Aqaba, said the
spokesman, Col. Farid Sharaa.

Aqaba is 350 kilometers south of the Jordanian capital Amman.
Sharaa said that the seven workers, one after the other, were
overcome by the stench in the slaughter house and drowned in the
pool.

He said the Egyptians were to have cleaned the pool after its
automatic pump broke.

Jordan heavily depends on Egyptian labor in farming and
construction. --AP

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Air passenger hurt during bomb hoax
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Air passenger hurt during bomb hoax

EGYPT: A passenger aboard a Kuwait Airways plane was hurt at a
Cairo airport on Wednesday as panicked travelers were evacuated
from the aircraft following a bomb scare, an airport official
said.

Kuwaiti Mohammed Saad Rumi, 27, suffered head injuries as he
descended the evacuation slide of flight 544, which had been
bound for Kuwait.

After all the passengers aboard the aircraft were evacuated,
security forces aided by sniffer dogs began a search of the
plane, but no explosives were found.

The state MENA news agency said an anonymous caller had
contacted the airport's security services before the flight was
to take off and told them there was a bomb aboard.

The passengers panicked when the pilot informed them of the
bomb threat ahead of the evacuation. Dozens of others were
slightly hurt during the evacuation, MENA said. --AFP