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rebel

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R360 has a parallel rebel plan to set up the event without World Rugby's ratification, if it cannot convince the governing body's member unions to approve it.

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The Darfur war began after the Arab-dominated government at the time armed the Janjaweed, in an attempt to suppress an uprising by rebels from black African ethnic groups.

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When the book begins, these plans have been torn asunder: Marc, as it transpires, has been killed in a rebel attack on a refugee camp in Libya.

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The charges concern accusations that Kabila has been supporting the M23, a rebel group who have wreaked devastation across the country's eastern region.

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But locals allege that such security operations - where the line between armed rebels and ordinary civilians is often blurred - are common.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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