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NEW DELHI, India (CNN)  -- The fifth and final phase of India's marathon general election to choose a federal government ended Wednesday.

Indians voters hold up their voter ID cards at a polling station in northern India.

Home to about 714 million voters, India is now due to hold a single-day vote count Saturday for 543 seats in the lower house of its parliament.

India's election commission spokesman Rajesh Malhotra told CNN that a 62 percent voter turnout was recorded in the last phase of polling Wednesday.

Voting in the month-long exercise was spread across 28 states and seven federal territories.

Stock markets closed 138.4 points down -- as voting drew to a close Wednesday -- apparently over fears of political uncertainty ahead.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Congress party, which came to power in 2004 as head of a communist-backed coalition, is seeking re-election. The party mainly faces opposition from an alliance led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.  Watch more about one village refusing to vote Â»

Over the years, regional parties have emerged as key players in government formation in India, creating a situation in which federal power is now shared by a coalition of groups.

Last year, Singh's Congress party lost the support of the communists, who opposed India's civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with the United States.

The party was able to survive primarily with the backing of a powerful regional party.

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(CNN) -- It has been nearly 20 years since Poland's Solidarity movement defeated the Communist Party in an historic election that prompted the fall of communism across central and eastern Europe.

Solidarity leader Lech Walesa takes the oath in front of Poland's National Assembly on December 22, 1990.

CNN International marks this significant anniversary with "The New Poland," a week of programming examining the transformation of Poland from 1989 to where it sits today on the world stage.

The combination of daily live programming and special reports from CNN correspondents in cities across Poland culminates June 4 with "Autumn of Change, an in-depth documentary that takes a retrospective look at the events leading up to the election exactly 20 years ago.

Reflecting the tumultuous year of 1989, which changed Europe forever, "Autumn of Change" will mix live programming and documentary programming, unforgettable historical images with interviews past and present, and a huge online audience initiative through Poland, Hungary, Germany, the former Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania, in a comprehensive narrative of events that have helped to shape the Europe of today.

"CNN's combination of historic footage, comprehensive reporting and access to Poland's key figures puts us in an unparalleled position to set the scene for how Poland was the catalyst for the Europe of today," said Mike McCarthy, vice president of coverage and feature programming for CNN International.

"In step with the anniversaries of the events themselves, CNN will invite viewers to take part in our ambitious account of how Europe has changed over the last 20 years and what the future may hold."

About the programming:

Just eight months after reporting from Poland for the week-long "Eye on Poland" special, Fionnuala Sweeney returns to the country to anchor the network's live coverage for "The New Poland."

She will report on the various commemoration and celebration ceremonies throughout the week from cities across Poland including Warsaw, Krakow and Gdansk.

In addition to Sweeney's live reports, CNN correspondent Frederik Pleitgen will take viewers inside the Poland of today looking at the political, cultural, social and economic changes that have taken place in the past 20 years.

The programs include:

-- Gdansk Today: CNN explores the city of Gdansk, the birthplace of the Solidarity movement. We visit the main shipyard and spend the day with a foreman who has been working there for more than 30 years. He talks about the transformation since Solidarity was born and the challenges the shipyards face three decades on. Finally, CNN heads out to sea with a polish yacht maker and finds out how they are dealing with the economic crisis.

-- Catholicism in Poland: CNN looks at the Catholic Church in Poland and the challenges it faces. We visit Religia TV, a new project that aims to attract Catholics as well as viewers from other religions.

-- Business in Poland: Solidarity transformed Poland from a communist state into a capitalist economy eventually capable of becoming a democratic member of the EU. During the last 20 years, its economy developed at a thriving pace, but even today there are remnants of the old system. CNN speaks to a family-run business on the local economy. We also visit Poland's biggest copper mining and refining company. We find out how the global market place is impacting the global economy and Polish business.

-- Polish Cuisine: CNN speaks to Krakow's top celebrity chef and historian Robert Maklowicz about Polish cuisine and the recent trend to return to its roots.

-- Poland's Film School: CNN visits Poland's largest film production Centrex, the National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz, and finds out what makes this school so unique.

About the documentary:   By combining narratives from key players within the Solidarity movement, the Communist leadership, CNN reporters who covered the events and Polish civilians who lived through it all, Autumn of Change charts the individuals, relationships and astonishing chain of events that shook eastern Europe to its foundations.

About the online coverage:  CNN's television coverage will be complemented by a full interactive companion site. This special site will feature a number of pieces that reflect the cultural influence of this movement as well as narratives from some of the major figures involved in the process.

Via iReport.com, CNN will also encourage viewers and users from Poland and elsewhere to submit content -- photos, videos and comments -- to illustrate personal experiences. Whether a part of this revolutionary period or not, CNN wants to know how these pivotal events affected them.

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Washington (CNN) -- The Democratic-controlled Senate on Wednesday rejected two proposed versions for a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution -- a setback to GOP leaders and conservative activists who say the measure is necessary to end the federal government's spiraling deficit spending.

A Democratic version opposed by Republicans fell on a 21-79 vote. Then a Republican version also failed to get the two-thirds majority required with a 47-53 vote.

Last month, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives failed to pass a GOP-proposed amendment, falling 23 votes shy of the two-thirds majority required for passage.

The congressional votes on the amendment were agreed to by both parties in August as part of the agreement raising Washington's debt ceiling.

Democratic leaders, however, are vehemently opposed to the idea, arguing that it would force the government into an economically destructive cycle of massive spending cuts.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, said Wednesday that a step as historically significant as a constitutional amendment was unnecessary.

Getting government spending under control "takes political will, even political courage," Durbin said, but "it doesn't take a constitutional amendment.''

Conservative Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah disagreed, saying Congress has repeatedly proved it's unable to control itself on spending.

"We are taxing and spending this country into bankruptcy," Hatch said, later adding, "We don't have any restraint around here."

Despite the proposal's defeat, it has been favored by the public. Nearly three in four Americans favored passage of the amendment in a July 18-20 CNN/ORC International Poll, while 24% were opposed.

Sixty percent of Americans say they believe a balanced budget amendment is necessary to get the deficit under control, according to the poll.

The House passed a balanced budget amendment in 1995, but the measure fell one vote short in the Senate in both 1995 and 1997.

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(CNN)  -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama defended himself and his wife Sunday against suggestions that they are insufficiently patriotic.

Sen. Barack Obama defended himself and his wife against recent suggestions that they are not patriotic.

After a town hall meeting in Lorain, Ohio, a reporter asked Obama about "an attempt by conservatives and Republicans to paint you as unpatriotic."

The reporter cited the fact that Obama once failed to put his hand over his heart while singing the national anthem.

Obama replied that his choice not to put his hand on his heart is a behavior that "would disqualify about three-quarters of the people who have ever gone to a football game or baseball game."

The reporter also noted that the Illinois senator does not wear an American flag lapel pin, has met with former members of the radical anti-Vietnam War group, Weather Underground, and his wife was quoted recently as saying she never felt really proud of the United States until recently.

Asked how he would fight the image of being unpatriotic, Obama said, "There's always some nonsense going on in general elections. Right? If it wasn't this, it would be something else. If you recall, first it was my name. Right? That was a problem. And then there was the Muslim e-mail thing and that hasn't worked out so well, and now it's the patriotism thing.

"The way I will respond to it is with the truth: that I owe everything I am to this country," he said.

The first-term senator from Illinois has been the subject of various debunked rumors since launching his presidential campaign -- allegations that he is a Muslim, that he took his oath of office on a copy of the Quran and that he attended a radical Islamic school while living in Indonesia as a boy.

"You will recall that the reason I came to national attention was a speech in which I spoke of my love of this country," said Obama.

He and his wife, Michelle, had already explained her comments. "She simply misspoke," he said. "What she was referring to was [that] this was the first time she has been proud of politics in America.  Watch what Michelle Obama said Â»

"That's true of a lot of people who have been cynical and disenchanted. And she's spoken about how she has been cynical about American politics for a very long time, but she's proud of how people are participating and getting involved in ways that they haven't in a very long time."

About not wearing an American flag lapel pin, Obama said Republicans have no lock on patriotism.

"A party that presided over a war in which our troops did not get the body armor they needed, or were sending troops over who were untrained because of poor planning, or are not fulfilling the veterans' benefits that these troops need when they come home, or are undermining our Constitution with warrantless wiretaps that are unnecessary?

"That is a debate I am very happy to have. We'll see what the American people think is the true definition of patriotism."

Obama did not respond to the question about the Weather Underground, a group whose members bombed the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon during the 1970s.

Last week, the New York Sun reported that as an Illinois state senator in 2001, Obama accepted a $200 contribution from William Ayers, a founder of the group who was not convicted for the bombings and now works as a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

But the paper said that, in a statement, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, William Burton, said, "Sen. Obama strongly condemns the violent actions of the Weathermen group, as he does all acts of violence ... But he was an 8-year-old child when Ayers and the Weathermen were active, and any attempt to connect Obama with events of almost 40 years ago is ridiculous."

Former first lady Sen. Hillary Clinton has said repeatedly that she is a stronger candidate because she has already shown she can withstand conservative attacks. E-mail to a friend

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(CNN) -- Days of violent unrest in the Thai capital have left dozens dead and hundreds injured as security forces clash with anti-government protesters.

The latest victims include a key opposition leader, Maj. Gen. Khattiya Sawasdipol -- a renegade general better known as Seh Daeng -- who died days after being critically wounded by a sniper's bullet.

But the current crisis follows a months-long standoff between Thai authorities and protesters opposed to the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. The protesters -- known as the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) -- support Thaksin Shinawatra, who was prime minister from 2001 to 2006, before he was ousted in a bloodless coup.

What is happening now?

The latest violence follows a government pledge to hold an election in November in an attempt to halt the protests. However, amid ongoing anger over a crackdown by security forces last month and a refusal by the protesters to comply with a deadline to vacate the district of Bangkok they have been occupying for weeks, authorities say the election date is now under threat.

Prime Minister Abhisit declared a state of emergency April 7, hours after anti-government demonstrators (known as "Red Shirts" for the clothes they wear) stormed the country's parliament.

Three days later, the deadliest clash in more than a decade between protesters (in this case the Red Shirts) and the military erupted, leading to the deaths of more than two dozen demonstrators and military forces.

Violence erupted again last week when protesters once again ignored an ultimatum to end their occupation in downtown Bangkok by Wednesday. Seh Daeng's subsequent shooting by an unknown assailant raised tensions further and at least 35 people have been killed and 240 wounded in the latest wave of unrest. The government has imposed a state of emergency in 22 provinces and metropolitan Bangkok.

What happens next?

Authorities have urged protesters to evacuate the protest area by Monday afternoon or face up to two years in prison for violating the order. But around 5,000 protesters remained on the streets in defiance of the authorities.

On Sunday protest leaders offered to resume talks with the government in U.N.-mediated negotiations if security forces were withdrawn from the streets. But the government has not accepted the offer. A senior official told CNN that authorities were under pressure to be more decisive in taking action to end the protests and claimed the government had been showing patience and restraint.

Media and analysts in Thailand say civil war may be looming, between the Red Shirts and the so-called "multi-colored shirts" (who support Abhisit). They are displeased with the disruption caused by the protests. They are generally middle-class city dwellers. They are not pro- or anti-government, they simply want the government to shut down the Reds to end the violence and interruptions to daily life. The red and multi-colored shirts have clashed in Silom Road, Bangkok's business and financial district.

How will Seh Daeng's death affect the protest movement?

CNN's Sara Sidner said it was unclear what the immediate impact of Seh Daeng's death would be. "Not all the protesters followed him as some thought he was too much of a hardliner," Sidner said. Some protesters argue that the Red Shirt movement should negotiate with the government to reach a settlement. But militant armed factions loyal to Seh Daeng and known as "Black Shirts" reject negotiation and appear ready to use violence to achieve their goals.

Haven't these protests been going on for a long time?

Yes, Thailand has been embroiled in political chaos for years and many here are growing weary with the instability. Ever since Thaksin came to power, there have been protesters opposing his allegedly corrupt and autocratic rule. Those protesters donned yellow shirts (the color of the king) and occupied the two main airports in Bangkok, until finally the pro-Thaksin government was brought down by a court ruling. In revenge Thaksin's supporters copied the yellow shirt tactics and took to the streets in red shirts.

Why do the sides divide on colors?

It's an easy way for them to create an identity. It all started with the Yellow Shirts wearing a color associated with Monday, the day of the week that Thailand's revered king was born on. That was designed to show their allegiance to the king, and more broadly the traditional elite which has dominated Thai politics for years. Thaksin's supporters then picked a color to distinguish themselves from the Yellow Shirts.

Why are they arguing?

Essentially this is a classic power struggle. It's easy to portray this as simply rich against poor, but it is much more complicated than that, as illustrated by the fact that the Reds' leader is in fact a multi-billionaire. Thaksin rode to power by enacting populist policies which gained huge support from the rural poor. His radical approach ruffled a lot of feathers among the elite, who felt he was in danger of becoming too big for his boots, and could erode their position.

The "civil society" also become concerned over allegations of corruption and his brutal war on drugs, which saw summary executions. He was also criticized for his heavy handed response to violence in the Muslim-dominated south.

Finally the army decided to oust him in a coup, which had the backing of the aristocratic elite and much of the middle class, who were becoming uneasy with the cult of personality growing around Thaksin. That set the stage for an embittered power struggle, between Thaksin loyalists and those loyal to the army, aristocracy and their traditional Democrat Party.

So who is Thaksin?

Visionary leader or venal despot: Opinions vary, like the color of the shirts his supporters and detractors wear. If you sport red, you think Thaksin was the only prime minister to offer the rural poor a voice and real benefits; if you wear yellow, you view him as akin to Ferdinand Marcos: greedy, self-serving and dangerous.

What is not in dispute is that he won two elections, was the only Thai prime minister to serve a full-term in office and is still hugely popular. But critics say he bought his support and was only in politics to help himself.

As a businessman, Thaksin made billions of dollars from his communications company Shin Corporation. In 2008 he was found guilty and sentenced in absentia to two years in prison for a land deal that enabled his wife to buy a valuable city plot for a fraction of its true value and he faces other corruption charges. More  than $2 billion in Thaksin's family assets are currently frozen in Thailand but there is speculation he has a great deal more money elsewhere.

What are the wider implications of the protests?

If the divisions in Thailand can't be healed it could lead to a deteriorating security situation which would have wider implications for the region. Thailand's relations with Cambodia are especially frosty since Thaksin was appointed economic adviser to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. The worst case scenario would see Cambodia drawn into the dispute, with Thaksin using the country as a political base, adding to the already considerable tensions on the border.

Is Thailand safe for visitors?

Many western embassies have shut their doors and are warning their citizens against travel to Bangkok as violence in the city continues. "Due to escalating violence in central Bangkok, including gunfire near the U.S. Embassy, demonstrations in Chiang Mai, and other incidents throughout Thailand, U.S. citizens should defer all travel to Bangkok and defer all non-essential travel to the rest of Thailand," the U.S. State Department has warned.

As well as advising against travel to Bangkok, the UK Foreign Office warned of protests and violent incidents in popular tourist destinations such as Pattaya, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and Ayutthaya. But Bangkok's main Suvarnabhumi airport is operating as normal it said.

CNN's Dan Rivers contributed to this report.

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text: a

text: decade

text: between

text: protesters

text: in

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text: case

text: the

text: Red

text: Shirts

text: and

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text: military

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text: leading

text: to

text: the

text: deaths

text: of

text: more

text: than

text: two

text: dozen

text: demonstrators

text: and

text: military

text: forces

text: Violence

text: erupted

text: again

text: last

text: week

text: when

text: protesters

text: once

text: again

text: ignored

text: an

text: ultimatum

text: to

text: end

text: their

text: occupation

text: in

text: downtown

text: Bangkok

text: by

text: Wednesday

text: Seh

text: Daeng

text: 's

text: subsequent

text: shooting

text: by

text: an

text: unknown

text: assailant

text: raised

text: tensions

text: further

text: and

text: at

text: least

text: people

text: have

text: been

text: killed

text: and

text: wounded

text: in

text: the

text: latest

text: wave

text: of

text: unrest

text: The

text: government

text: has

text: imposed

text: a

text: state

text: of

text: emergency

text: in

text: provinces

text: and

text: metropolitan

text: Bangkok

text: What

text: happens

text: next

text: Authorities

text: have

text: urged

text: protesters

text: to

text: evacuate

text: the

text: protest

text: area

text: by

text: Monday

text: afternoon

text: or

text: face

text: up

text: to

text: two

text: years

text: in

text: prison

text: for

text: violating

text: the

text: order

text: But

text: around

text: protesters

text: remained

text: on

text: the

text: streets

text: in

text: defiance

text: of

text: the

text: authorities

text: On

text: Sunday

text: protest

text: leaders

text: offered

text: to

text: resume

text: talks

text: with

text: the

text: government

text: in

text: U.N

text: mediated

text: negotiations

text: if

text: security

text: forces

text: were

text: withdrawn

text: from

text: the

text: streets

text: But

text: the

text: government

text: has

text: not

text: accepted

text: the

text: offer

text: A

text: senior

text: official

text: told

text: CNN

text: that

text: authorities

text: were

text: under

text: pressure

text: to

text: be

text: more

text: decisive

text: in

text: taking

text: action

text: to

text: end

text: the

text: protests

text: and

text: claimed

text: the

text: government

text: had

text: been

text: showing

text: patience

text: and

text: restraint

text: Media

text: and

text: analysts

text: in

text: Thailand

text: say

text: civil

text: war

text: may

text: be

text: looming

text: between

text: the

text: Red

text: Shirts

text: and

text: the

text: so

text: called

text: multi

text: colored

text: shirts

text: who

text: support

text: Abhisit

text: They

text: are

text: displeased

text: with

text: the

text: disruption

text: caused

text: by

text: the

text: protests

text: They

text: are

text: generally

text: middle

text: class

text: city

text: dwellers

text: They

text: are

text: not

text: pro-

text: or

text: anti

text: government

text: they

text: simply

text: want

text: the

text: government

text: to

text: shut

text: down

text: the

text: Reds

text: to

text: end

text: the

text: violence

text: and

text: interruptions

text: to

text: daily

text: life

text: The

text: red

text: and

text: multi

text: colored

text: shirts

text: have

text: clashed

text: in

text: Silom

text: Road

text: Bangkok

text: 's

text: business

text: and

text: financial

text: district

text: How

text: will

text: Seh

text: Daeng

text: 's

text: death

text: affect

text: the

text: protest

text: movement

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Sara

text: Sidner

text: said

text: it

text: was

text: unclear

text: what

text: the

text: immediate

text: impact

text: of

text: Seh

text: Daeng

text: 's

text: death

text: would

text: be

text: Not

text: all

text: the

text: protesters

text: followed

text: him

text: as

text: some

text: thought

text: he

text: was

text: too

text: much

text: of

text: a

text: hardliner

text: Sidner

text: said

text: Some

text: protesters

text: argue

text: that

text: the

text: Red

text: Shirt

text: movement

text: should

text: negotiate

text: with

text: the

text: government

text: to

text: reach

text: a

text: settlement

text: But

text: militant

text: armed

text: factions

text: loyal

text: to

text: Seh

text: Daeng

text: and

text: known

text: as

text: Black

text: Shirts

text: reject

text: negotiation

text: and

text: appear

text: ready

text: to

text: use

text: violence

text: to

text: achieve

text: their

text: goals

text: Have

text: n't

text: these

text: protests

text: been

text: going

text: on

text: for

text: a

text: long

text: time

text: Yes

text: Thailand

text: has

text: been

text: embroiled

text: in

text: political

text: chaos

text: for

text: years

text: and

text: many

text: here

text: are

text: growing

text: weary

text: with

text: the

text: instability

text: Ever

text: since

text: Thaksin

text: came

text: to

text: power

text: there

text: have

text: been

text: protesters

text: opposing

text: his

text: allegedly

text: corrupt

text: and

text: autocratic

text: rule

text: Those

text: protesters

text: donned

text: yellow

text: shirts

text: the

text: color

text: of

text: the

text: king

text: and

text: occupied

text: the

text: two

text: main

text: airports

text: in

text: Bangkok

text: until

text: finally

text: the

text: pro

text: Thaksin

text: government

text: was

text: brought

text: down

text: by

text: a

text: court

text: ruling

text: In

text: revenge

text: Thaksin

text: 's

text: supporters

text: copied

text: the

text: yellow

text: shirt

text: tactics

text: and

text: took

text: to

text: the

text: streets

text: in

text: red

text: shirts

text: Why

text: do

text: the

text: sides

text: divide

text: on

text: colors

text: It

text: 's

text: an

text: easy

text: way

text: for

text: them

text: to

text: create

text: an

text: identity

text: It

text: all

text: started

text: with

text: the

text: Yellow

text: Shirts

text: wearing

text: a

text: color

text: associated

text: with

text: Monday

text: the

text: day

text: of

text: the

text: week

text: that

text: Thailand

text: 's

text: revered

text: king

text: was

text: born

text: on

text: That

text: was

text: designed

text: to

text: show

text: their

text: allegiance

text: to

text: the

text: king

text: and

text: more

text: broadly

text: the

text: traditional

text: elite

text: which

text: has

text: dominated

text: Thai

text: politics

text: for

text: years

text: Thaksin

text: 's

text: supporters

text: then

text: picked

text: a

text: color

text: to

text: distinguish

text: themselves

text: from

text: the

text: Yellow

text: Shirts

text: Why

text: are

text: they

text: arguing

text: Essentially

text: this

text: is

text: a

text: classic

text: power

text: struggle

text: It

text: 's

text: easy

text: to

text: portray

text: this

text: as

text: simply

text: rich

text: against

text: poor

text: but

text: it

text: is

text: much

text: more

text: complicated

text: than

text: that

text: as

text: illustrated

text: by

text: the

text: fact

text: that

text: the

text: Reds

text: leader

text: is

text: in

text: fact

text: a

text: multi

text: billionaire

text: Thaksin

text: rode

text: to

text: power

text: by

text: enacting

text: populist

text: policies

text: which

text: gained

text: huge

text: support

text: from

text: the

text: rural

text: poor

text: His

text: radical

text: approach

text: ruffled

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: feathers

text: among

text: the

text: elite

text: who

text: felt

text: he

text: was

text: in

text: danger

text: of

text: becoming

text: too

text: big

text: for

text: his

text: boots

text: and

text: could

text: erode

text: their

text: position

text: The

text: civil

text: society

text: also

text: become

text: concerned

text: over

text: allegations

text: of

text: corruption

text: and

text: his

text: brutal

text: war

text: on

text: drugs

text: which

text: saw

text: summary

text: executions

text: He

text: was

text: also

text: criticized

text: for

text: his

text: heavy

text: handed

text: response

text: to

text: violence

text: in

text: the

text: Muslim

text: dominated

text: south

text: Finally

text: the

text: army

text: decided

text: to

text: oust

text: him

text: in

text: a

text: coup

text: which

text: had

text: the

text: backing

text: of

text: the

text: aristocratic

text: elite

text: and

text: much

text: of

text: the

text: middle

text: class

text: who

text: were

text: becoming

text: uneasy

text: with

text: the

text: cult

text: of

text: personality

text: growing

text: around

text: Thaksin

text: That

text: set

text: the

text: stage

text: for

text: an

text: embittered

text: power

text: struggle

text: between

text: Thaksin

text: loyalists

text: and

text: those

text: loyal

text: to

text: the

text: army

text: aristocracy

text: and

text: their

text: traditional

text: Democrat

text: Party

text: So

text: who

text: is

text: Thaksin

text: Visionary

text: leader

text: or

text: venal

text: despot

text: Opinions

text: vary

text: like

text: the

text: color

text: of

text: the

text: shirts

text: his

text: supporters

text: and

text: detractors

text: wear

text: If

text: you

text: sport

text: red

text: you

text: think

text: Thaksin

text: was

text: the

text: only

text: prime

text: minister

text: to

text: offer

text: the

text: rural

text: poor

text: a

text: voice

text: and

text: real

text: benefits

text: if

text: you

text: wear

text: yellow

text: you

text: view

text: him

text: as

text: akin

text: to

text: Ferdinand

text: Marcos

text: greedy

text: self

text: serving

text: and

text: dangerous

text: What

text: is

text: not

text: in

text: dispute

text: is

text: that

text: he

text: won

text: two

text: elections

text: was

text: the

text: only

text: Thai

text: prime

text: minister

text: to

text: serve

text: a

text: full

text: term

text: in

text: office

text: and

text: is

text: still

text: hugely

text: popular

text: But

text: critics

text: say

text: he

text: bought

text: his

text: support

text: and

text: was

text: only

text: in

text: politics

text: to

text: help

text: himself

text: As

text: a

text: businessman

text: Thaksin

text: made

text: billions

text: of

text: dollars

text: from

text: his

text: communications

text: company

text: Shin

text: Corporation

text: In

text: he

text: was

text: found

text: guilty

text: and

text: sentenced

text: in

text: absentia

text: to

text: two

text: years

text: in

text: prison

text: for

text: a

text: land

text: deal

text: that

text: enabled

text: his

text: wife

text: to

text: buy

text: a

text: valuable

text: city

text: plot

text: for

text: a

text: fraction

text: of

text: its

text: true

text: value

text: and

text: he

text: faces

text: other

text: corruption

text: charges

text: More

text: than

text: billion

text: in

text: Thaksin

text: 's

text: family

text: assets

text: are

text: currently

text: frozen

text: in

text: Thailand

text: but

text: there

text: is

text: speculation

text: he

text: has

text: a

text: great

text: deal

text: more

text: money

text: elsewhere

text: What

text: are

text: the

text: wider

text: implications

text: of

text: the

text: protests

text: If

text: the

text: divisions

text: in

text: Thailand

text: ca

text: n't

text: be

text: healed

text: it

text: could

text: lead

text: to

text: a

text: deteriorating

text: security

text: situation

text: which

text: would

text: have

text: wider

text: implications

text: for

text: the

text: region

text: Thailand

text: 's

text: relations

text: with

text: Cambodia

text: are

text: especially

text: frosty

text: since

text: Thaksin

text: was

text: appointed

text: economic

text: adviser

text: to

text: Cambodian

text: Prime

text: Minister

text: Hun

text: Sen.

text: The

text: worst

text: case

text: scenario

text: would

text: see

text: Cambodia

text: drawn

text: into

text: the

text: dispute

text: with

text: Thaksin

text: using

text: the

text: country

text: as

text: a

text: political

text: base

text: adding

text: to

text: the

text: already

text: considerable

text: tensions

text: on

text: the

text: border

text: Is

text: Thailand

text: safe

text: for

text: visitors

text: Many

text: western

text: embassies

text: have

text: shut

text: their

text: doors

text: and

text: are

text: warning

text: their

text: citizens

text: against

text: travel

text: to

text: Bangkok

text: as

text: violence

text: in

text: the

text: city

text: continues

text: Due

text: to

text: escalating

text: violence

text: in

text: central

text: Bangkok

text: including

text: gunfire

text: near

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Embassy

text: demonstrations

text: in

text: Chiang

text: Mai

text: and

text: other

text: incidents

text: throughout

text: Thailand

text: U.S.

text: citizens

text: should

text: defer

text: all

text: travel

text: to

text: Bangkok

text: and

text: defer

text: all

text: non

text: essential

text: travel

text: to

text: the

text: rest

text: of

text: Thailand

text: the

text: U.S.

text: State

text: Department

text: has

text: warned

text: As

text: well

text: as

text: advising

text: against

text: travel

text: to

text: Bangkok

text: the

text: UK

text: Foreign

text: Office

text: warned

text: of

text: protests

text: and

text: violent

text: incidents

text: in

text: popular

text: tourist

text: destinations

text: such

text: as

text: Pattaya

text: Chiang

text: Mai

text: Chiang

text: Rai

text: and

text: Ayutthaya

text: But

text: Bangkok

text: 's

text: main

text: Suvarnabhumi

text: airport

text: is

text: operating

text: as

text: normal

text: it

text: said

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Dan

text: Rivers

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: Who was greedy and self-starving?

answer: Thaksin Shinawatra,

text: Thaksin Shinawatra,


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(CNN) -- Former captain Ricky Ponting insists he can still be a key player for Australia after becoming the third cricketer to score 13,000 Test runs on the opening day of the fourth and final match against India.

Doubts were raised about Ponting's international future when he stood down as skipper early last year, but the 37-year-old has now scored two centuries in this series after a barren run with the bat.

With Australia holding a 3-0 lead going into the Adelaide match, the tourists are facing a whitewash after Ponting and his successor Michael Clarke put on a record-breaking 252 runs on Tuesday.

Ponting was on 137 and Clarke 140 at stumps as Australia reached 335-3 in hot conditions, breaking their own record for the fourth wicket against India at the venue.

Ponting joined Indian opponents Sachin Tendulkar (15,432) and Rahul Dravid (13,262) as the only players to have passed the 13,000 milestone, ending the day 56 runs past that mark.

It was his 41st Test century, putting him level with South Africa's second-placed Jacques Kallis and 10 behind Tendulkar.

"Am I still the player I was? I'm not sure," Ponting told reporters. "You guys can answer that, you've seen me over a long period of time, but at the end of the day I think if I can keep making Test match hundreds or having an impact on winning games for Australia, then that's what I'm all about at the moment.

"It is interesting to ask the same question about Sachin or Dravid or Kallis, the guys the same sort of age as me that are still out there playing Test cricket.

"We've probably all realized that we can't play the same way forever, right through our careers, and I don't think there's been anybody that has been able to do that through 160 Test matches.

"But I'm giving it my best shot to be the best player I can be, and to win games for Australia, and if I can keep playing like I did today then hopefully there's more runs around the corner."

Ponting scored 134 in Australia's innings victory in the second Test in Sydney, where Clarke posted an unbeaten 329 as they added 288 together.

"I felt I played better today than I did in Sydney as well, probably a better wicket to bat on than Sydney was -- there wasn't much in it for the Indian bowlers, no sideways movement for the quicks, not a lot of spin, a little bit of reverse swing during the middle of the day," Ponting said.

He revealed he has adapted to his new role at No. 4, having dropped down a spot in the order.

"I know my place in the team, Michael's the leader now and I've stepped back from all that responsibility I once had," Ponting said.

"The last couple of years being the captain and batting at three was getting more and more difficult for me. Not being the captain now and having that little bit of extra time between change of innings to sit back and relax and take it all in has probably been good for me."

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text: Former

text: captain

text: Ricky

text: Ponting

text: insists

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text: can

text: still

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text: a

text: key

text: player

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text: end

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text: day

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text: can

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text: Test

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text: hundreds

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text: having

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text: impact

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text: then

text: that

text: 's

text: what

text: I

text: 'm

text: all

text: about

text: at

text: the

text: moment

text: It

text: is

text: interesting

text: to

text: ask

text: the

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text: probably

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text: we

text: ca

text: n't

text: play

text: the

text: same

text: way

text: forever

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text: careers

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text: I

text: do

text: n't

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text: 's

text: been

text: anybody

text: that

text: has

text: been

text: able

text: to

text: do

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text: through

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text: 'm

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text: my

text: best

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text: best

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text: like

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KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Five people connected to an Afghan presidential candidate have been released after being kidnapped the day before, an official with the candidate said.

Five of Dr Abdullah Abdullah's campaign workers were kidnapped and later released.

The group of five, who worked for Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, were in a two-car caravan in northwestern Afghanistan on Wednesday when they were abducted, said Sayed Ahmad Samey, the security chief of Badghis province. Elders negotiated for their release, Samey said.

The workers have now been freed and are in a good condition, according to Sami Panah of Abdullah's campaign office.

Abdullah is a former Foreign Minister who is seeking to unseat incumbent President Hamid Karzai in the August 20 election. This is not the first time that Abdullah's supporters have been targeted.

One of the presidential hopeful's campaign workers was wounded by an unknown gunman in late July. A month earlier, gunmen in the province of Kapisa killed another of Abdullah's campaign managers in a midnight attack.

Hundreds of U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers have headed to southern Afghanistan to secure polling stations and protect citizens during the elections.

It will be the nation's second presidential election since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.

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(CNN) -- Three years ago, the film based on Dan Brown's novel "The Da Vinci Code" was the focus of protest and controversy, with a Vatican archbishop calling for a boycott and Catholics at many levels refuting plot points.

From left, actors Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer and Ewan McGregor join director Ron Howard at the film's premier.

But when it comes to the new film based on a Brown novel, "Angels & Demons," star Tom Hanks says talk of controversy is much ado about nothing.

"Everybody is looking for some scandal whether a scandal exists or not," Hanks said of the film. "I think a kind of natural reaction is now that somehow because it's the second Robert Langdon mystery that there is some degree of controversy over it. And there is really not."

The movie ventures into similar waters as its predecessor, "The Da Vinci Code," with Hanks reprising the role of Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbology expert, and conspiracy theories galore.

It also reunites the Academy Award-winning actor with director Ron Howard, who helmed "Da Vinci," and teams Hanks with actor Ewan McGregor and Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer.

While "The Da Vinci Code" centered on the complex investigation of a murder in the Louvre and the theory that a marriage between Jesus and Mary Magdalene produced descendants, the new film features a murder at the Vatican and a secret and powerful society known as the "Illuminati."

McGregor,  known for his role as a young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the "Star Wars" films, said that while "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels & Demons" are inextricably linked, the latter can stand on its own.

"If I thought [Angels & Demons] was pinned to 'The Da Vinci Code' in some way then it would've been a lesser script to read and it wasn't," McGregor said. "It's a standalone movie ... it's not relevant whether you've seen 'Da Vinci Code' or not."

Both films, like the Brown novels they're based on, have been met with criticism for their melding of history and storytelling.

"I have a strong objection to the genre of mixing fact with fiction," said Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League. "You've got [Dan] Brown, [Ron] Howard and [Tom] Hanks in the movie all alleging that the Illuminati was this secret society which was brutalized by the Catholic Church in the 1600s."

"It's all a lie," Donohue said. "[The Illuminati] never even existed until May 1, 1776, but they have to pitch it back into the 1600s so they can trot out their favorite victim, Galileo. What happens is you get the audience thinking 'Well, maybe it's not all true, but probably some of it is true.' "

Ted Baehr, founder of Movieguide and the Christian Film & Television Commission, first issued an advisory alert about the film in April and reiterated it days before the movie's May 15 release.

"Now that we've previewed 'Angels & Demons,' Movieguide has decided to keep in effect our caution alert," Baehr said. "Faith is often denied throughout the movie."

Director Howard wrote in the The Huffington Post that he believes Donohue is on a mission "to paint me and the movie I directed, 'Angels & Demons,' as anti-Catholic," a claim Howard emphatically denies.

The director told CNN that he attempted to reach out to the Catholic Church regarding the film, but had no success. He also downplayed reports that Rome and the Vatican tried to hinder filming.

Hanks said shooting the movie in the ancient city was complicated given the vibrancy of Rome. At one point, Hanks said, make-believe collided with one woman's fairy tale.

"We had a lady showing up who was getting married at the Pantheon and she had to get married and we had to get our shot," Hanks said. "She showed up right between shots, when we were moving cameras."

Fortunately, both the wedding and the day's filming were able to be completed, Hanks said.

McGregor said Howard was to be credited for how well the production came together. Howard's background as an actor undoubtedly helped enhance the actors' performances, McGregor said.

"A lot of directors are able to tell you what they're after, but Ron's able to tell you what he's after and help you for how you might play that ... which is kind of total directing," McGregor said.

Zurer said she had a blast being the only female lead in the film.

Viewers should see the film for what it is, she said, and not focus on the controversy.

"It's fun fiction," she said. "It's a fun movie to watch, it's thrilling and that's what I saw in it."

CNN's Lisa Respers France contributed to this story.

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question: What movie is Angels and Demons a sequel to?

answer: "The Da Vinci Code"

text: "The Da Vinci Code"

question: Who stars in Angels and Demons?

answer: Tom Hanks

text: Tom Hanks

question: What is the name of the Da Vinci Code sequel?

answer: "Angels & Demons,"

text: "Angels & Demons,"

question: What does the fellow cast mate say?

answer: while "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels & Demons" are inextricably linked, the latter can stand on its own.

text: while "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels & Demons" are inextricably linked, the latter can stand on its own.

question: What is a sequel to "The Da Vinci Code"?

answer: "Angels & Demons,"

text: "Angels & Demons,"

question: What has the film been attacked for?

answer: their melding of history and storytelling.

text: their melding of history and storytelling.

question: What did the Catholic League president say?

answer: "I have a strong objection to the genre of mixing fact with fiction,"

text: "I have a strong objection to the genre of mixing fact with fiction,"