Ultimatum rejected: Red Shirt protesters gather outside the Bangkok army base
Grenade attack wounds soldiers amid Thai protests
By Conor Duffy in Bangkok
The Thai military says two soldiers have been injured in a grenade attack at a barracks near the site of a big anti-government protest in Bangkok. More
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