Thai coup leader seeks to ease democracy fears
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Thailand's new civilian prime minister   will have a free hand in running the country, its military   leader said on Friday, trying to ease fears about the army   casting its shadow over a return to democracy and beyond.
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- In the dead of night and without firing a shot, Thailand's military overthrew popularly elected Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday after mounting criticism that he had undermined democracy.
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Thailand's military coup leaders faced   international calls for a swift return to democracy on   Wednesday, after vowing to choose a new prime minister within   two weeks to replace ousted Thaksin Shinawatra.
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Thailand&#39;s ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra urged the military government on Friday to press ahead with new elections, in a videotaped address shown to thousands of his supporters at an anti-coup rally.
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Thais went to the polls Sunday in an election meant to restore democracy more than a year after the military ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra, whose shadow looms large over the balloting.
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Thailand's parliament convenes Monday after a nearly two-year absence, restoring democracy after a military coup ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and returning many of his allies to politics.
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Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra promises to change tack in his handling of the violence gripping the country's south.
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Thailand made an uneasy return to democracy Wednesday with the swearing-in of a Cabinet dominated by loyalists to the prime minister ousted 19 months ago in a military coup.
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Thailand's military looks set to loom   large over an interim civilian government despite pledging it   would step back two weeks after ousting Prime Minister Thaksin   Shinawatra in a bloodless coup.
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Thai military leaders seek to consolidate their hold on power, after staging a coup in the PM's absence.
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WASHINGTON -- At the United Nations lectern this week, President Bush hailed the spread of democracy. ``From Beirut to Baghdad," he said, ``people are making the choice for freedom." Yet even as he spoke, tanks were rolling through the streets of Bangkok as a military coup toppled the elected leader of Thailand, who at that moment was in New York ...
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BANGKOK, Jan. 31 -- The leader of Thailand's ruling military junta vowed Wednesday to hold democratic elections before the end of the year, saying the army would immediately hand over control to a civilian government following the inauguration of a new prime minister.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Myanmar&#39;s detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is an attempt by the ruling junta to prevent possible political violence.
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At the United Nations lectern this week, President Bush hailed the spread of democracy. "From Beirut to Baghdad," he said, "people are making the choice for freedom." Yet even as he spoke, tanks were rolling through the streets of Bangkok as a military coup toppled the elected leader of Thailand,...
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's military coup leaders faced international calls yesterday for a swift return to democracy, after vowing to choose a new prime minister within two weeks to replace ousted Thaksin Shinawatra.
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Thailand's military leaders have tightened the screws on the ousted government of Thaksin Shinawatra after ordering a series of corruption probes and warning it would seize ill-gotten gains.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has warned that violence in the country&#39;s south could get worse. Mr Thaksin said suspected Muslim separatists wanted to provoke the government into over-reacting.