UNITED NATIONS - ALL 15 Security Council nations have agreed to a statement that would condemn North Korea's rocket launch and toughen UN sanctions against the reclusive communist nation, a spokesman for the council president said on Monday.
The agreement paves the way for the formal adoption of the statement at a council meeting on Monday afternoon.
BANGKOK - BY LATE evening Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was declaring the protests were all but quelled.
'This mission has progressed and is nearly complete, and I ask all of the authorities to remain firm,' Mr Abhisit said in a national address, flanked by top brass and cabinet ministers.
BANGKOK- FORMER premier Thaksin Shinawatra accused Thailand's embattled government of lying to cover up deaths in an army crackdown on protesters Monday.
Speaking to CNN from an undisclosed location, the fugitive tycoon said soldiers who were seen earlier firing rounds into the air to disperse his rioting supporters in Bangkok had killed 'many'.
BANGKOK - BEWILDERED tourists in Bangkok feared for their safety or just wondered what was going on Monday, as soldiers just a few streets away opened fire above the heads of rampaging red-shirted protesters.
On the day the Thai capital should have been filled with revellers noisily celebrating Songkran, the biggest national festival, the sprawling city awoke to the crackle of automatic gunfire amid a state of emergency.
