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Thai premier rejects calls for new elections

Nov. 26, 2008
Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat, arriving from Peru, says his government will keep functioning despite the demands by the army chief and the demonstrators occupying the main airport in Bangkok. Reporting from Bangkok, Thailand and Jakarta, Indonesia -- Thailand's prime minister, Somchai...
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler