Thai PM to address nation on protesters&#39; deaths
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The explosion followed a blast late on Thursday that killed two people and wounded about 20 in a border town in Narathiwat province.
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Thailand&#39;s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said he will set up an inquiry into the deaths of 84 people who suffocated after being taken to an army camp in the majority-Muslim southern province of Narathiwat.
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Thailand's respected queen has made a rare public appeal for the nation to unite to end violence in the country's troubled Muslim-majority south where nearly 550 people have died this year.
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Thailand's new prime minister started work on Monday with pledges to focus on national reconciliation and "people's happiness" in the wake of last month's military coup against Thaksin Shinawatra.
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The final death toll from Thailand&#39;s tidal wave disaster could approach 6,800, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has suggested, as European nations joined Thais in trying to trace thousands of missing people.
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Muslim separatists are intensifying violence in southern Thailand in hopes of a brutal government response that would boost foreign support for their aims, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Friday.
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Thailand's PM says senior officials' negligance led to the deaths in custody of more than 80 Muslim protesters.
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Thailand&#39;s King Bhumibol Adulyadej said police and soldiers must increase cooperation to prevent killings and unrest in three Muslim-majority southern provinces.
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Facing new violence and harsh criticism, the prime minister said Friday he would set up an independent commission to investigate the deaths of 85 Muslim youths in southern Thailand, including 78 who suffocated or were crushed to death in military custody.
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Thailand's Thaksin Shinawatra says militants in the south will step up violence to get the government "angry".
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More than 10,000 Thais demonstrated in Bangkok on Saturday to demand an end to the country&#39;s army-backed government, police said, with many calling for a return of deposed premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
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Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Thursday he would take a "deserved rest," and urged the military leaders of the country to quickly arrange for new national elections.
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The Thai government is facing strong international criticism for the deaths of 78 Muslim demonstrators killed after being rounded up by security forces and crammed into trucks.
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PATTANI, Thailand  - Thai Prime Minister Thaksin  Shinawatra called a meeting of top security advisers on  Thursday amid concerns Muslim outrage could trigger reprisal  attacks in the far south where 85 protesters died this week.
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Thailand&#39;s revered king yesterday sought to calm growing anger among Muslims by making a rare a rare intervention that urged restraint on the government after the death of nearly 80 Muslims in military custody.
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Predominantly Buddhist Thailand, hit by three-year separatist insurgency in which more than 2,000 people have been killed, plans to hold talks with the Muslim rebels, Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said on Friday. "It is not a negotiation, but more of a dialogue to build understanding with them, which Malaysia has supported as a good idea," Surayud told reporters when asked if Bangkok would formally ask Kuala Lumpur to be a mediator. But Surayud, who agreed with Malaysian counterpart Abdullah Ahamd Badawi this week to speed up attempts to develop their common border area to help end the violence, declined to say where or when the talks would be held or who would be involved.
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Thailand&#39;s premier says the military will no longer break up protests following the deaths of 87 Muslim demonstrators after a riot in the country&#39;s south.