Tens of thousands of protesters are marching through central Bangkok, paralysing traffic and facing off with police outside the prime minister’s residence in their latest mass rally against Thailand’s government.

Thailand’s prime minister has refused to resign ahead of national elections set for February 2, despite opposition demands she step down as the caretaker head of government.

Anti-government protesters in Thailand have broken through a gate and forced their way into the prime minister’s office compound as police stood by and watched.

Thailand’s prime minister has rejected the demands of anti-government protesters locked in street battles with police, saying what they want is unacceptable under the constitution.

The United Nations closed its main office in Bangkok, dozens of schools closed and many civil servants stayed away from work as the Thai capital braced for more violence.

Police fought back for the first time on Sunday against protesters trying to overthrow Thailand’s government, firing tear gas and rubber bullets in running battles against rock-throwing mobs who tried to force their way into the prime minister’s sand-bagged office complex.

Protesters vowing to topple Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra took to the streets for a fourth straight day, declaring they would take over “every ministry” of the government.

A former Prime Minister of Thailand has been charged with murder in the latest twist in a political war between supporters and opponents of another ex-leader, Thaksin Shinawatra.

The governor of Bangkok issued a dramatic warning to residents of the Thai capital to prepare for floodwaters to roll deeper into the city from suburban areas already choking under the deluge.

The sister of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra today announced an agreement to form a five-party coalition government after her Pheu Thai Party won a landslide victory in Thailand’s parliamentary elections.

Thailand's prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has resigned as leader of the outgoing ruling party after its resounding defeat by the party considered a proxy for ousted former leader Thaksin Shinawatra.

THAILAND’S opposition won a landslide election victory yesterday, led by the sister of former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a triumph for red-shirt protesters who clashed with the army last year.

Exit polls in Thailand are showing the party allied to ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has won an absolute majority in the fractious country’s tense election.

Thailand’s ruling Democrat Party staved off possible dissolution today when a court refused to accept a case accusing it of illegal financing.

Thailand’s ruling Democrat Party survived a legal challenge today which could have seen it dissolved and a new government formed after the Constitutional Court dismissed a charge that it misused an election fund.

A bomb at a bus stop in Bangkok injured nine people shortly after polls closed in a parliamentary election today.

Thai anti-government protesters cancelled a march today on a military camp where the prime minister has hidden during their month-old campaign to oust him.

THAILAND’S election body called for the dissolution of the ruling party, piling the pressure on embattled Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva after the bloodiest political unrest in 18 years.

Thousands of demonstrators remained encamped in the historic heart of the Thai capital today, vowing to stir up a “class war” until the government is ousted.

Red-shirted protesters hurled plastic bags filled with gallons of their own blood into the residential compound of the Thai prime minister today, hoping their shock tactics would bring down his government.

REPUBLICANS won two key state elections, dealing a stinging blow to President Barack Obama and his Democrats 12 months after they swept to power.

Lawmakers in a devoutly Muslim Indonesian province voted unanimously that adulterers can be sentenced to death by stoning, just months after voters overwhelmingly chose to throw conservative Islamic parties out of power.

Alec Baldwin could be the next US actor to enter politics after saying he was giving “serious thought” to running for Congress.

The Thai prime minister rejected calls for his resignation by thousands of anti-government protesters who ringed his office for a second day in a boisterous rally.

AN Italian clinic said yesterday it would take in a woman who has been in a coma for 17 years whose family is seeking to have her life ended, as the Roman Catholic Church kept up pressure to keep her alive.

Thousands of supporters of exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra surrounded Thailand’s parliament today, daring MPs to pass through their ranks to deliver a speech outlining the new government’s key policies.

OPPOSITION leader Abhisit Vejjajiva became Thailand’s third prime minister in as many months yesterday, taking control with a slender majority in parliament and an economy on the brink of recession.

Parliament named opposition party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva as Thailand’s new prime minister today as supporters of the former government attempted to block the building following the vote.

Thailand’s main opposition party called for an emergency parliamentary session today to prove its majority as a key step to form the next government and end months of political paralysis.

Loyalists of exiled former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra are meeting today to counter a bid by the main opposition party to form a new government in Thailand.

Thailand's opposition Democrat Party says it has enough support to form a new government following a six-month political crisis that has paralysed the country.

Thai riot police today clashed with thousands of protesters who barricaded Parliament and vowed to block the government from leaving.

Thailand’s ousted leader Samak Sundaravej today accepted the endorsement of the country’s ruling party to return as prime minister.

Hong Kong’s communist leaders in Beijing said they would allow the territory to directly elect its own leader in 2017 and all its lawmakers after that, but critics warned China would still be in control behind the scenes.

SENATOR George S McGovern is probably best remembered as the Democrat Party’s nominee defeated by Richard Nixon in the US presidential election of 1972, but the tactics used, especially in the Watergate building, led to Nixon’s resignation less than two years later.

Deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be arrested if he returns home from a self-imposed exile, even if his victorious allies form a government, Thailand said today.

Loyalists of deposed Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra captured 233 of 480 seats in the lower house of parliament to win Sunday's national election, it was announced today.

Thailand’s rival political parties began battling today to cobble together a coalition government after parliamentary elections.

Allies of deposed Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra declared victory in country’s first post-coup election today, but failed to secure an absolute majority in the parliament according to unofficial results from the Election Commission.

A party set up by people loyal to former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is on course to win Thailand’s election today.

Official campaigning for Thailand's first general elections since last year's military coup began today as 18 parties registered candidates.

US PRESIDENT George W Bush yesterday said he was confident that the most sweeping overhaul of his nation’s immigration laws in two decades will ultimately clear Congress.

TWO senior officials with Thailand’s Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party were found guilty of election fraud yesterday in a ruling that could doom the political powerhouse founded by ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

A Thai court disbanded the political party of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra today over election law violations.