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Kansas City Sports Team Raising $25K For Homeless Families

Rugby team pledges to stay on roof until the entire amount is raised. So far, they have raised roughly $5,000.

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A homeless man sits alone in Providence, Rhode Island November 10, 2008. (Photo by Jack Newton)

A Kansas City rugby team is camping out on top of a building until they raise $25,000 to help house homeless families in the metro area, according to local news reports. The Kansas City Blues Rugby Club climbed up to the roof on Thursday afternoon to “camp-out for cash,” local broadcast news affiliate Fox News 4 reported. The money they raise

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Another Year, Another Increase In China’s Military Budget

The East Asian powerhouse intends to spend around $132 billion on military expenditures in 2014 — far below the $526 billion the U.S. will spend in its fiscal year 2014 military budget.

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Chinese People's Liberation Army navy personnel salute in front of a new Type 052C guided missile destroyer Zhengzhou during its commission ceremony in Zhoushan, in eastern China's Zhejiang province. (AP Photo)

The Chinese government plans to increase its defense budget to $132 billion in 2014, according to an announcement made this week. The budget marks a 12.2-percent increase year on year, according to various sources. China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency cited a draft budget report submitted for review on March 5, confirming rumors that the Chinese

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Hundreds Of Indigenous Canadian Women Being Murdered Or Disappearing

Indigenous Canadian women have been targeted in recent years, many along a remote stretch of interstate in British Columbia dubbed the ‘Highway of Tears.’ New data claims more than 800 have gone missing or have been murdered.

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A recently released public database contains the names of hundreds of aboriginal women who have either been murdered or gone missing in Canada since the 1940s, particularly in the 2000s. One new report citing an Ottawa researcher puts the number of dead or missing indigenous women at 824, the Winnipeg Free Press reported in January. Another more

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Assassins Make Third Attempt On Exiled Rwandan Army Official’s Life

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has long been suspected of sending spies to assassinate exiled officials abroad, but no proof has ever come to light, leaving many to wonder who killed another exiled Rwandan government official in January.

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South Africa Rwandan General

South African police have reported another attempt on the life of a former Rwandan army chief of staff who has been living in exile in the country for the past four years. Capt. Paul Ramaloko, a spokesman for the South African police, said Wednesday that Gen. Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa was not injured in the attack on his Johannesburg home on

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Beauty Products Made In Israeli Settlement Spark Controversy

Mass retailers like Nordstrom and Macy’s stock the Ahava skincare line, touting its age-reversing Dead Sea “minerals.” Pro-Palestine advocates aren’t buying, though. They claim that Ahava, which makes its products in the occupied West Bank territory, is flouting international law.

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MIDEAST ISRAEL PALESTINIANS

Some women will go to any lengths to enhance or extend the shelf-life of their beauty. But some products have caused an outcry for reforms in the makeup industry over the years, as in the case of animal testing. Similarly, Ahava skincare products -- made in the Palestinian-occupied West Bank territory -- have been drawn into an ethical controversy

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Nigerian Leader Appoints New Defense Chief To Combat Northern Islamic Militants

The shuffle is meant to take the Nigerian army’s fight to Boko Haram, an Islamic militant movement responsible for the deaths of more than 400 people alone in brazen attacks over the last five weeks in the country’s north.

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NIGERIA RULING PARTY

Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan has appointed a new minister of defense in a strategic move to battle extremists who have wreaked havoc in the country’s Muslim north, various sources reported Wednesday. The president named retired Lieutenant General Aliyu Gusau, who comes from northern Nigeria, as his new defense minister for the job to push

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Are America’s Bible Colleges The Perfect Stalking Grounds For Sexual Predators?

Recent media reports have exposed grim aspects about elite Christian schools in the U.S. Is fundamentalist Christianity a breeding ground for sexually-aggressive young men?

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The once-pristine images of evangelical colleges are being tarnished by scandals involving the mishandling of sex-related on-campus crimes, drawing negative attention to a culture that prides itself on purity and Bible-based principles. Media reports of female students raped by their male peers have cast a dark shadow over prim and proper campuses

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