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FILE - Children wave Danish flags as they celebrate Denmark's Queen Margrethe's birthday, in Fredensborg, Denmark, on April 16, 2021. Norway's top body for international adoptions on Tuesday recommended a halt to all adoptions from abroad for a two-year period pending an investigation into several allegedly illegal cases, while Denmark's sole overseas adoption agency announced it was stopping for the same concerns. (Martin Sylvest/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)

Norway considers halting overseas adoptions as Denmark’s only international agency winds down work

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

Chinese tourists takes selfies with Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, right, at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Samut Prakarn province, Thailand, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Thai prime minister says visa-free policy for Chinese visitors to be made permanent in March

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Bernhard Langer, left, and his son Jason, right, putt during the final round of the PNC Championship golf tournament Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Kevin Kolczynski)

Langer’s fifth PNC Championship title leaves Woods hopeful for next year

By Doug Ferguson - Associated Press

An Israeli ambulance is seen leaving the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza, in Israel, on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. A four-day cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war has begun in Gaza as part of an agreement that Qatar helped broker. Twenty-four hostages were freed Friday after seven weeks of captivity. The group included 13 Israeli citizens, 10 Thai citizens and a Filipino citizen. Israel was expected to release 39 Palestinian prisoners later Friday. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

At least 10 Thai hostages released by Hamas

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Thailand’s Foreign Ministry, Thai and Israeli officials including the Thai Ambassador to Israel Pannabha Chandraramya, left, pay respect to the bodies of eight Thai nationals killed in Israel during the Israel-Hamas war, at the Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Oct. 19 2023, before the bodies are sent back to Thailand. (Thailand’s Foreign Ministry via AP) **FILE**

High number of hostages drags Thailand into faraway fight

By Richard S. Ehrlich

New leader of Pheu Thai Party, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, daughter of Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, offers a traditional greeting known as a "wai" after her address at the party headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. Thailand’s ruling party has selected as its leader the daughter of the country’s divisive former prime minister, highlighting her family’s continuing influence more than two decades after her father entered politics.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Daughter of divisive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin named head of political party linked to him

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Myanmar police hand over five telecom and internet fraud suspects to Chinese police at Yangon International Airport in Yangon, Myanmar, Aug. 26, 2023. Tens of thousands of people, many of them Chinese, have been caught up in cyber scams based in Southeast Asia. Local and Chinese authorities have netted thousands of people in a crackdown on such schemes, but experts say they are failing to root out the local elites and criminal networks that are running the scams. (Chinese embassy in Myanmar/Xinhua via AP)

China crackdown on cyber scams in Southeast Asia nets thousands but leaves networks intact

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

Mourners carry the body of Mapal Adam, during her funeral in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. Adam was killed by Hamas militants on Saturday as they carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack that killed over 1,000 Israelis. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Thailand reels at high toll of deaths, hostages from Israel-Hamas clash

By Richard S. Ehrlich

Visitors evacuate from a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. Hundreds of shoppers fled the major shopping mall in the center of the Thai capital Bangkok on Tuesday afternoon after what sounded like gunshots were heard inside. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

3 dead in shooting in major shopping mall in Bangkok; suspected attacker is in police custody

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Chinese boy tourists are welcomed by Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, right, on their arrivals at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Samut Prakarn province, Thailand, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. Thailand's new government granting temporary visa-free entry to Chinese tourists, signaling that the recovery of the country's tourism industry is a top economic priority. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand receives the first Chinese visitors under a new visa-free policy to boost tourism

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin addresses to the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

U.S.-China rivalry reignites as new Thai government finds its footing

By Richard S. Ehrlich

Chinese family tourists rent traditional Thai costumes and take selfies at Wat Arun, or the "Temple of Dawn," in Bangkok, Thailand, on Jan. 12, 2023. Thailand's new cabinet has approved a temporary visa exemption for tourists from China and Kazakhstan in its first meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 13, for a bid to boost tourism and the economy. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Thailand’s government, seeking return of tourists from China, approves visa-free entry for 5 months

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin reads the policy statement at parliament in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Sept. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand’s new prime minister tells Parliament his government will urgently tackle economic woes

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, center, arrives at Pheu Thai Party headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, on Aug. 24, 2023. Thailand’s king has formally endorsed members of a new Cabinet, paving the way for a government headed by Prime Minister Srettha to take office more than three months after the general election. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Thailand’s king approves a new Cabinet more than 3 months after elections

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Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra greets his supporters as he arrives at Don Muang airport in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. Thailand's king granted former prime minister Thaksin a pardon and reduced his eight-year prison sentence to one year, just over a week after the business tycoon-turned-politician returned from 15 years of self-imposed exile. The pardon granted by King Maha Vajiralongkorn was published Friday, Sept. 1, 2023, in the Royal Gazette, making it effective immediately. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn, file)

Thailand’s king reduces prison term of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to a single year

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Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra greets his supporters as he arrives at Don Muang airport in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. Thailand's king granted former prime minister Thaksin a pardon and reduced his eight-year prison sentence to one year, just over a week after the business tycoon-turned-politician returned from 15 years of self-imposed exile. The pardon granted by King Maha Vajiralongkorn was published Friday, Sept. 1, 2023, in the Royal Gazette, making it effective immediately. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn, file)

A long, strange week in Bangkok caps a long, strange odyssey for Thailand’s Thaksin

By Richard S. Ehrlich

Paetongtarn Shinawatra, daughter of Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, talks to reporters during a press conference at Pheu Thai Party headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin is stressed but in good spirits, his daughter Paetongtarn said, in the latest update on his health since he went into a Police general hospital last week. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Daughter of ex-Thai leader Thaksin says he is fatigued, as criticism grows of his hospitalization

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

Pheu Thai's prime ministerial candidate Srettha Thavisin who is the sole candidate nominated for a parliamentary vote, speaks to media at the party headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

New Thai leader Srettha Thavisin is a wealthy property developer who didn’t hide his political views

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

Thailand threatening to shut down Facebook, alleging it doesn’t screen ads well enough

Leader of Pheu Thai party Chonlanan Srikaew speaks during a news conference at Parliament in Bangkok, Thailand Monday, Aug. 21, 2023. The populist Pheu Thai party on Monday announced its plan to form Thailand’s next government with an 11-party coalition that includes two pro-military parties affiliated with outgoing Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand’s Pheu Thai party joins with pro-military parties in coalition to form new government

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press