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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?President Joe Biden on Friday signed into law the stopgap spending bill that will keep the federal government running through Feb. 18, after congressional leaders defused a partisan standoff over federal vaccine mandates.The White House released a statement noting the bill signing and thanking congressional leaders for their work. Earlier in the day, Biden said it was worth praising bipartisanship, but funding the government isn ;t a great achievement,
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Yingluck Shinawatra, sister of Thai ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, celebrates her victory in Bangkok Sunday. Photo by AFP/Getty Images.Just a year ago, the pictures from the center of downtown Bangkok were of clashing demonstrators and soldiers; the shopping boulevards so popular with tourists set afire and awash in shredded glass, and by the time the protests were put down, at least 90 Thais were dead.Today, a different graphic dominates th
yeezy e website of the English-language Nation newspaper, a map of the country showing a sea of red and islands of blue that reflect the decisive outcome of Sunday election: an overwhelming victory for the opposition party led by the sister of the deposed and exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatara. As a result, Thailand will have its first female prime minister, 44-year-old Yingluck Shinawatra, whose party
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