Thaksin’s Presence Shows Political Influence, Say Analysts
Voice of America
FILE - Thai telecommunication tycoon and leader of Thai Rak Thai Party Thaksin Shinawatra waves during campaign rally in Bangkok, Dec. 26, 2000. The controversial former Prime Minister of Thailand, returned to Thailand last year after nearly a decade of self-imposed exile.
Since Thaksin Shinawatra’s late-February parole from a police hospital in Bangkok, public support for Thailand’s former prime minister has been evident.
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 25, 2024. A still from a video released by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on April 24, 2024, shows a man who identified himself as Hersh Goldberg-Polin, one of the hostages abducted from a music festival in Israel during the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023.