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BANGKOK — The former nurse detained by the military for six days and charged with terrorism has now been accused of insulting the Thai Royal Family, a crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

BANGKOK — The 36-year-old woman who was taken by soldiers and held incommunicado for nearly a week confessed to unwittingly aiding a terror plot, police say.

SONGKHLA — A roadside bomb injured a police officer who was guarding a school in southern Thailand, where Islamic insurgents regularly stage attacks on Thai authorities and public schools.

The junta should organize a referendum that will allow the Thai people to choose between the upcoming 2015 constitution and the 1997 "People’s Constitution."

BANGKOK — A witness of the deadly military crackdown on Redshirt protesters in 2010 emerged from six days of military detention today, a day after the junta denied any involvement in her arrest.

By Siraphob Thanthong-Knight

BANGKOK — Four anti-coup activists charged with violating the junta's ban on protests were released by a military court in Bangkok today.

PATHUM THANI — A 40-year-old woman arrived at a police station in Pathum Thani province yesterday with a tablet of amphetamine and asked to be jailed in order to flee her drug-addicted girlfriend, police say.

BANGKOK — An anti-coup activist was allowed to continue his symbolic march against the military junta in Bangkok yesterday following a change of tactics from police, who had arrested him for walking on the previous day.

BANGKOK – A volunteer nurse who witnessed the killing of two fellow medics by soldiers in a Bangkok temple during the crackdown on Redshirt protests in 2010 has been abducted from her home by security officers, according to her family.