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1. Remains found in the Iraqi city Karbala are thought to be from a mass grave from 1991 when Saddam Hussein's regime put down a Shiite uprising in the South.
2. Indonesia's Aceh rebels formally disband their armed wing, effectively ending their thirty-year separatist insurgency one year after the tsunami hit.
3. Rescue workers pull a fifth body from a train wreck two days after it derailed in northern Japan, following reports that more passengers could be trapped inside.
4. Inmates at a prison in Brazil's remote Amazon jungle hold more than two hundred people hostage, demanding the return of their leader from another prison.
5. And it's a mystery in Boise Idaho where hundreds of stuffed animals appeared under the Statehouse's Christmas tree with a card that only reads "Merry Christmas from Santa".
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1. disband
disband disbands disbanding disbanded
If someone disbands a group of people, or if the group disbands, it stops operating as a single unit.
All the armed groups will be disbanded.
The rebels were to have fully disbanded by June the tenth.
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= break up
2. wing
4 wing wings
A wing of an organization, especially a political organization, is a group within it which has a particular function or particular beliefs.
...the military wing of the African National Congress.
...the liberal wing of the Democratic Party.
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= section
See also left-wing, right-wing.
3. inmate
inmate inmates
The inmates of a prison or mental hospital are the prisoners or patients who are living there.
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4. statehouse
statehouse statehouses
In the United States, a statehouse is where the governor of a state has his or her offices, and where the state legislature meets.
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