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After two days of being pushed around and humiliated by anti-government protesters, Thailand's security forces began pushing back on Saturday. It was a day that saw the first bloodshed since the protests began in Bangkok on March 12. But by mid-evening both sides had called on their forces to retreat. It was unclear who held the upper hand in what is becoming a battle for survival by the current Thai government...
...Protesters countered by every means including the use of bombs and real bullets." Local television reported that one foreign journalist had been injured by a bullet and was hospitalized. Most injuries before nightfall appeared to have been from rubber bullets and tear gas and blows. Around 6 p.m., helicopters began dropping tear gas on protesters at the Phan Fa intersection...
Poles on Saturday were laying flowers and praying in front of the presidential palace in Warsaw as they began to mourn the deaths. Churches around the country announced services to commemorate the dead during a week of national mourning. (Read a TIME story on Poland and Russia...
Crimson Cash first entered the Square in 2003, when five local businesses began accepting the debit system by student demand...
...Russia's influence is extensive in the former Soviet republic, and Moscow has been irritated by the U.S. presence in what it calls its "near abroad" - former Soviet territories - since the U.S. began operations at Manas in 2001. In Moscow in February 2009, perhaps spurred by the offer of a $2 billion loan from Russia, Bakiyev publicly complained that the U.S. wasn't paying enough for its use of the base. That same month, the Kyrgyz parliament voted to end the U.S. presence, though ultimately the lease was renewed with the hefty rent increase. (Read a brief history of Kyrgyzstan...