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Thailand: Police fire tear gas at anti-government protests

Some 10,000 protesters gathered in Bangkok calling for Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's government to be overthrown.

Thai riot policemen clash with demonstrators during a protest in Bangkok on November 24, 2012. Thai police fired tear gas and detained dozens of people as tensions flared at an anti-government protest on November 24 in Bangkok, the scene of several outbreaks of violent unrest in recent years.

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