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In this March 24, 2010, file photo, Thai Princess Ubolratana poses for a photo during her visit to promote Thailand's film industry at the Entertainment Expo Hong Kong Filmart. Thai Raksa Chart party selected Friday, Feb. 8, 2019, the princess as its nominee to serve as the next prime minister, upending tradition that the royal palace plays no public role in politics and upsetting all predictions about what may happen in the March election. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Thai princess finds tumult in politics, like life

By GRANT PECK - Associated Press

In this Oct 27, 2017, photo, Thai Princess Ubolratana Mahidol waves to Thai people outside Grand Palace in Bangkok , Thailand. The selection of the elder sister of Thailand’s king as a political party nominee for prime minister has upended a tradition of the palace playing no public role in politics. Most but not all modern monarchies steer clear of direct involvement in electoral politics or governing. (AP Photo)

The Latest: Thai king vetoes sister’s election candidacy

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In this March 24, 2010, file photo, Thai Princess Ubolratana poses for a photo during her visit to promote Thailand's film industry at the Entertainment Expo Hong Kong Filmart. Thai Raksa Chart party selected Friday, Feb. 8, 2019, the princess as its nominee to serve as the next prime minister, upending tradition that the royal palace plays no public role in politics and upsetting all predictions about what may happen in the March election. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Princess Ubolratana Mahidol’s run for prime minister shocks Thai politics

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

In this Monday, Feb. 4, 2019, photo, Bahraini Hakeem al-Araibi, center, leaves the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand's government insists it cannot free Hakeem who has refugee status in Australia until hearings on Bahrain's request for his extradition are completed.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand: Soccer player must go through extradition hearings

By KAWEEWIT KAEWJINDA - Associated Press

Former Australian soccer national team member Craig Foster, left, and Vice President of FIFPro Francis Awaritefe wait to meet detained Bahraini soccer player Hakeem al-Araibi as he arrives at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. Al-Araibi who has refugee status in Australia pleaded outside a Bangkok court on Monday for Thailand to not send him home to Bahrain, which is seeking his extradition to serve a prison sentence for a crime he denies. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

The Latest: Australia urges Thailand to release footballer

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Detained Bahraini soccer player Hakeem al-Araibi, center, arrives at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. Al-Araibi has said he fled his home country due to political repression and human rights groups and activists fear he risks torture if he is sent back. Bahrain wants him returned to serve a 10-year prison sentence he received in absentia in 2014 for vandalizing a police station, which he denies. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

The Latest: Thai court sets April hearing for soccer player

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Detained Bahraini soccer player Hakeem al-Araibi, front left, arrives at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. Al-Araibi has said he fled his home country due to political repression and human rights groups and activists fear he risks torture if he is sent back. Bahrain wants him returned to serve a 10-year prison sentence he received in absentia in 2014 for vandalizing a police station, which he denies. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Australia urges Thailand free refugee soccer player

By KAWEEWIT KAEWJINDA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, file photo. Bahraini football player Hakeem al-Araibi answers questions from the waiting journalists as he is brought in to a court in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai prosecutors have submitted a request in court for Thailand to extradite to Bahrain a detained soccer player who has refugee status in Australia. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

Request made in Thai court to send soccer player to Bahrain

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Australian rallies call for Thais to free Bahraini refugee

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A young boy wears a protective mask for the high levels of air pollution as he's picked up from school in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019. Over 400 schools in Bangkok have been ordered shut Wednesday as the Thai capital sees continuously high levels of air pollution and dust particles. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Bangkok schools closed over air pollution concerns

By KAWEEWIT KAEWJINDA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, file photo, prison guards escort Bahraini football player Hakeem al-Araibi from a court in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand officially received a request from Bahrain to extradite a detained soccer player who has refugee status in Australia. The foreign ministry says the request for extraditing Hakeem al-Araibi has been forwarded to prosecutors for deliberation. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

Wife of detained refugee soccer player appeals to Thai PM

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, file photo, prison guards escort Bahraini football player Hakeem al-Araibi from a court in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand officially received a request from Bahrain to extradite a detained soccer player who has refugee status in Australia. The foreign ministry says the request for extraditing Hakeem al-Araibi has been forwarded to prosecutors for deliberation. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

Australian PM asks Thailand to free detained soccer player

By KAWEEWIT KAEWJINDA and TASSANEE VEJPONGSA - Associated Press

Prime Minister Scott Morrison, right, stands with winners 2019 Australians of the Year; Dr. Richard Harris, left, and Craig Challen at the 2019 Australian of the Year Awards in Canberra, Australia, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019. The two amateur divers Harris and Challen, who canceled their vacation plans for what they thought was a hopeless mission to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand, have been named winners of one of Australia's most prestigious awards. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

2 divers win Australian award for Thai cave rescue

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

The Latest: Thailand sets post-coup election for March 24

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In this photo dated Thursday, Dec, 27, 2018, Thai rescuers cover a body on the shore of the Mekong River in Nakhon Phanom province northeast of Bangkok, Thailand. DNA tests show that two bodies found washed up on the shore of Thailand's Mekong River are the corpses of anti-government activists, police said Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, in what are feared to be political killings. The two, known by the pseudonyms Puchana and Kasalong, were among three exiled activists who disappeared in December from homes in Laos, where they took shelter after fleeing Thailand. (AP Photo)

Thai police says bodies from river were missing activists

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Thailand commits to policy of not detaining migrant children

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Since 2004, Muslim separatists in the three provinces bordering Malaysia have been waging a fierce insurgency that has claimed more than 7,000 lives. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Thailand’s military eyes talks with Muslim rebels

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

Suspected Muslim rebels storm Thai temple, kill 2 monks

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Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, right, walks with an unidentified companion in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Jan. 11, 2019. Alqunun, the 18-year old Saudi woman who fled her family to seek asylum, remains in Thailand under the care of the U.N. refugee agency as she awaits a decision by a third country to accept her as a refugee. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Saudi woman fleeing alleged abuse heads for asylum in Canada

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

Gunmen kill 4 volunteers guarding southern Thailand school

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