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...were pretty clear that the weekend wouldn’t be over until Sunday morning,” captain Martin Eiermann said. “We would have to focus on both races and prepare for both races...
...call him and urging protesters not to seek revenge at the moment. By 9 p.m., a military spokesman said troops had been ordered to pull back and not attempt to seize Phan Fa. Nattawut responded by telling protesters to also fall back to Phan Fa, but it was not clear how much control protest leaders still had over the situation as street battles raged on. (See pictures from Thailand's April 2009 protests...
...darkness fell on Bangkok, it was not clear if the army would continue its operations throughout the night or wait until morning to resume trying to take back the city's streets. "All that happened today so far may come to nothing, depending on whether government can hold on to the slim advantage they earned today," said Tulsathit Thaptim, an editor at The Nation...
...Kaczynski, his wife and some of his top security officials were among the 96 people killed in the crash. As the fuselage of the Soviet-made Tupelov airplane (operated by a Polish airliner) still smoldered in forest near the city of Smolensk, the grim irony of their deaths became clear to the stunned Polish nation: Their president had been on his way to Russia to commemorate the massacre of tens of thousands of Poles, who had been executed on the order of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in 1940 in those same forests in the region of Smolensk. (Read a TIME...
...Putin put in a caring phone call on Thursday, April 8, to Roza Otunbayeva, the opposition leader now in command of the impoverished Central Asian state. He promised her financial aid, legitimacy and a "special relationship" with the Kremlin, and she gladly accepted. The move was significant: it seems clear now that Kyrgyzstan will quickly return to Moscow's sphere of influence after months of strained relations with Russia, making the U.S. military presence in the country all the more precarious...