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Thai protesters pour blood at the gates of Government House
Thailand's red-shirt demonstrators have splashed blood under the gates of Government House in a protest against a leadership they say is illegitimate.
Earlier the protesters lined up to donate their blood, as the anti-government rallies entered a third day.
So far the protests have remained peaceful and both sides say they want to avoid violence.
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Monday rejected a demand from protesters to quit and call elections.
The stand-off is the latest in a deep political schism in the country linked to the 2006 military coup which deposed former leader Thaksin Shinawatra.
The family of a five-year-old British boy who was kidnapped while in Pakistan say they are "ecstatic" after he was found safe and well.
Sahil Saeed, from Oldham, had been snatched from his grandmother's house in Jhelum by armed robbers on 3 March.
Greater Manchester Police said he was left near a school at 0410 GMT on Tuesday, before wandering into a field where he was found by locals.
A German priest convicted of molesting boys in 1986 has been suspended from his duties after breaching a ban on working with children.
Father Peter Hullermann abused children during his time in the archdiocese of Munich and Freising, when the current Pope was the archbishop there.
The archdiocese said he was "forbidden from any work with children", but did not specify how he breached the ban.
He had been given a 18-month suspended jail sentence in 1986.
Somali pirates have released a chemical tanker and its 28 North Korean crew, maritime officials say.
The Singapore-operated MV Theresa VIII was seized in November in the south Somali Basin north of the Seychelles.
Andrew Mwangura, of the East African Seafarers Assistance Programme, said a ransom of about $3.5m (£2.3m) had been paid, Reuters news agency reported.
Pirates have made the sea lanes off the Horn of Africa and the Gulf of Aden among the most dangerous in the world.
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