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Tens of thousands of demonstrators surged the Thai capital on Sunday, pushing Thailand towards a tense political standoff as leaders of an anti-government protest movement threatened to paralyze Bangkok unless Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva resigns within 24 hours and calls for a new election. (See photos of last year's protests in Thailand...
...appeal to constitutional monarch King Bhumibol Adulyadej to intervene. The 82-year-old king, recuperating in a Bangkok hospital from a lung infection, has on occasion intervened to end bloodshed and forge a compromise during times of crisis. Thaksin's opponents have questioned whether he and the red shirt movement are loyal to the monarch...
...Nairobi-based think tank, and a longtime critic of foreign aid, tells TIME. "Instead of trying to defend themselves, I think Bob Geldof and his friends should be looking at this as part of the problem of the aid industry." Shikwati is a leading advocate in an emerging movement that wants to see foreign development assistance - and some emergency help - stopped entirely in Africa. He says foreign aid fosters corruption and a sense of dependence on Western donors. In some countries, leaders have also been accused of steering development projects to areas where people have voted for them while opposition...
...Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli Jr. sent a letter to public colleges and universities advising them that state law prohibits "a college or university from including 'sexual orientation,' gender identity,' 'gender expression' ... as a protected class within it's non-discrimination policy." (See pictures of the gay-rights movement...
...much political energy on the right these days. "It's an uphill battle in the general - no ifs, ands or buts about it," says Pennsylvania's Democratic governor, Ed Rendell, who has thrown the force of his political operation behind Specter. (See "Portraits of the Tea Party Movement...