Wikinews Shorts: June 12, 2007
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===Thai junta says Thaksin can come home===
[[Image:Thaksin.jpg|right|160px|thumb|File photo of Thaksin Shinawatra]]
Ousted prime minister [[Thaksin Shinawatra]] may return to [[Thailand]] if he wishes, interim Prime Minister [[Surayud Chulanont]] and [[w:Council for National Security|Council for National Security]] chairman General [[w:Sonthi Boonyaratglin|Sonthi Boonyaratglin]] said today.

Thaksin's lawyer, Noppadon Pattama, indicated that Thaksin, in exile since a [[w:2006 Thai coup d'état|coup]] led by Sonthi last year, will soon return to Thailand so that he may appeal the seizure of his assets by the Assets Examination Committee.

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*{{Wikinews|title=Ex-Thai PM Thaksin's assets are frozen|date=June 11, 2007}}

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*{{source|url=http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/06/13/headlines/headlines_30036721.php
|title=Thaksin will return very soon: lawyer
|author=
|pub=The Nation (Thailand)
|date= June 13, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://www.bangkokpost.com/topstories/topstories.php?id=119404
|title=Thaksin 'free to return'
|author=
|pub=Bangkok Post
|date= June 12, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://etna.mcot.net/query.php?nid=29895
|title=Thaksin can return home: Thai PM, junta chief
|author=Thai News Agency
|pub=MCOT
|date= June 12, 2007}}
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===Malaysian official warns of terrorism in Malacca Strait===
[[Image:StraitOfMalacca.jpg|thumb|right|160px|The Strait of Malacca separates Sumatra in the south from the Malay Peninsula in the north.]]
[[w:Royal Malaysian Police|Royal Malaysian Police]] Inspector-General Musa Hassan said at a maritime security meeting today that there is a "real and possible" threat of terrorism in the [[w:Strait of Malacca|Strait of Malacca]], which is shared by [[Indonesia]], [[Malaysia]] and [[Singapore]].

The strait, through which passes 40 percent of the world's trade, has had a drop in incidences of [[w:Piracy in the Strait of Malacca|piracy]], but Hassan says he fears a [[w:Liquid Petroleum Gas|LP gas]] vessel could be commandeered for a suicide mission.

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*{{source|url=http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/281730/1/.html
|title=Malaysia warns of 'possible' terror threat in Malacca Straits
|author=Agence France-Presse
|pub=Channel NewsAsia
|date= June 12, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/06/12/ap3812925.html
|title=Terrorism risk high in Malacca Strait
|author=Sean Yoong, Associated Press
|pub=Forbes
|date= June 12, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KLR40763.htm
|title=Malaysia sees threat of terror attacks in Malacca St
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|pub=Reuters
|date= June 12, 2007}}
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Thaksin's lawyer, Noppadon Pattama, indicated that Thaksin, in exile since a coup led by Sonthi last year, will soon return to Thailand so that he may appeal the seizure of his assets by the Assets Examination Committee.

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The strait, through which passes 40 percent of the world's trade, has had a drop in incidences of piracy, but Hassan says he fears a LP gas vessel could be commandeered for a suicide mission.

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