Bangkok protests

Bangkok, Nov. 24 (Reuters): Thai police fired tear gas at stone-throwing demonstrators and made dozens of arrests today as thousands demanded the removal of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

Protesters from the royalist Pitak Siam group repeatedly tried to breach police lines in the Thai capital and rammed a six-wheel truck into a security barrier but were held back.

They accused Yingluck’s government of corruption, being a puppet of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra and of disloyalty to Thailand’s monarchy.

Pak blast

Islamabad (Reuters): A roadside bomb killed at least seven people near a Shia procession in Pakistan on Saturday, police said, with security forces on high alert over fears of large-scale sectarian attacks on the minority sect across the country.

TV actor dead

Washington (Reuters): Larry Hagman, who created one of American TV’s most supreme villains as the conniving, oilman J.R. Ewing of Dallas, died on Friday. He was 81. Hagman died of complications from his battle with throat cancer.