Thailand’s senate was working yesterday to find a way of breaking the country’s political deadlock and resolving turmoil that has crippled the government and sparked fears of economic disaster and even civil war. The crisis has escalated since the country’s top constitutional court ousted Yingluck Shinawatra as premier, and nine of her cabinet ministers, saying she had abused her power, while her “Red Shirt” supporters have condemned the move as a judicial coup. The crisis is the latest stage in a decade of intense rivalry between the royalist establishment and Yingluck’s brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, the populist former prime minister ousted by a military coup in 2006 and who now lives in...
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