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 The US Embassy in Bangkok has issued a statement, calling for the red-shirted protesters and their leaders for the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) to avoid using violence and to exercise their right to assemble and protest peacefully during their mass rally this weekend. |  "From 'tea party' protesters to antiwar advocates, Americans on all sides of the political spectrum seem angry about something. But for all the tumult, the disaffection today is far less than in many periods in the past." - Christian Science Monitor |
Thailand urges UAE not to shelter Thaksin 11.03.2010 | |
 Thailand has asked the United Arab Emirates not to allow fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to continue to stay in Dubai and use it as his base to topple the Thai government, an aide to the foreign minister, Chavanont Intarakomalsut, said on Wednesday. |  The UDD-affiliated Democracy News Network (DNN) is planning to counter state media's coverage of events at the Red Shirt mass rally this weekend, by its own broadcast over the People Channel cable TV, six community radio stations, a pro-Thaksin website, http://www.thailandmirror.com, and popular video sharing website YouTube, Somyos Prueksakasemsuk, editor of the Voice of Taksin magazine, said yesterday. |
 French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy are both rumoured to have affairs, French media reports say. |  Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez mocked U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday as a "blond" version of her predecessor. |
 Iraqi authorities counted votes on Monday, a day after a parliamentary election in the Middle Eastern country. Preliminary results are expected in two or three days. |  In comments on his Facebook page, Thailand's Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij took aim at Friday's Supreme Court decision confiscating Bt46 billion of a total of Bt76 billion in frozen assets of fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. |
 Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva will press ahead with his official visit to Australia and New Zealand, from March 13 to 16 as planned, despite the anti-government mass protests, government spokesman Panithan Wattanyakorn said on Thursday. |  Thailand's Puea Thai Party is planning to assist the red-shirted movement of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) to better organise their mass demonstration, dubbed as "Million-Man March", to be held on March 14 in Bangkok. |
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