Return of ex-PM Thaksin looms over Thai premiership vote

Thailand’s divisive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra is expected to return to the kingdom from exile on Tuesday, threatening fresh instability on the day parliament votes for a new prime minister after three months of political deadlock. Thaksin, 74, is the most influential and controversial politician in recent Thai history, loathed by the pro-military and royalist […]

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