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...parents made their first showing at the Tuesday meeting in the Sullivan Chamber in City Hall. Crowds of parents filled the room, donning OLA nametags and matching red carnations—the symbol of the Carnation Revolution in 1974, a coup that brought democracy to Portugal...
Thaksin Shinawatra, the billionaire telecom tycoon who served as Thailand's Prime Minister before being ousted in a military coup, may be a billionaire no longer. On Friday, Thailand's Supreme Court ruled that the government could seize $1.5 billion of the fugitive politician's $2.3 billion in frozen assets after concluding he had enriched himself at the expense of the state through abuse of power and conflicts of interest when he led the country from 2001-2006. The court ruled that the remaining $800 million will stay frozen pending calculation of interest and the settling of other cases...
Thaksin was elected Prime Minister twice - in 2001 and 2005 - before being ousted in a military coup in September 2006. At the time, military leaders cited his unbridled corruption and alleged disloyalty to the country's monarchy to justify their action. Under international pressure, the generals stepped down and allowed elections to return a civilian to power after a little over one year of rule, but they still wield considerable power. Although Thaksin has been banned from politics for five years for violating election laws, he remains popular with the rural poor, who feel he was the first Thai leader...
...alleged evidence against the officers, for example, has yet to be made public. And it's unclear how the military will respond if the former heads of the air force and navy - both of whom appeared in an Istanbul court Thursday to testify to their involvement in the alleged coup plot - are arrested pending trial. "Turkey is clearly in uncharted territory now and it is very difficult to predict how this crisis could evolve," Wolfango Piccoli, an analyst for the London-based think tank Eurasia Group, wrote in a report on Wednesday. (See pictures of Obama in Turkey...