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Protests Persist in Thailand Ahead of Special Parliamentary Session

VOA News

   Thousands of protesters gathered in Bangkok's central shopping district
   Sunday after the prime minister ignored a "deadline" from the movement
   to resign.

   Last week, largely student-led protests demanded that Prime Minister
   Prayuth Chan-o-Cha, who seized power in a 2014 coup, resign by Saturday
   evening. As the deadline came and went, protesters returned to the
   Ratchaprasong intersection to demand his ouster.

   Renewed protests come ahead of a special parliamentary session Monday,
   which is aimed at easing political tensions amid the ongoing protests.

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