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• Texan is George Washington's closest kin
He fought for eight years to do away with the monarchy, and I think he made the right decision," Bill Washington said. "The idea of one individual having supreme power over all others is an antiquated idea — to say the least." Easy for him to say ...
• Nepal declares young girl new living goddess
Wrapped in red silk and adorned with red flowers in her hair, Matani Shakya received approval from the priests and President Ram Baran Yadav in a centuries-old tradition with deep ties to Nepal's monarchy, which was abolished in May. The new "kumari ...
• Thai police fire tear gas on anti-PM crowd
He dismissed speculation of a military intervention to end the unrest in Thailand, where the military has staged 18 coups since the country became a constitutional monarchy in 1932. Seeking government's resignation Protesters from the People's Alliance ...
• Thai protesters sit tight as government bickers
This use of democracy posed a fresh threat to what Thitinan calls the establishment, comprising conservative elements of the military, the bureaucracy and the monarchy. The People's Alliance for Democracy, Thitinan says, serves as "the agent and ...
• Iraq's parliament to pick new flag
... by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1960s, and still hoist that banner. The adoption of a new flag would be the last of several revisions — and one failed American-supervised redesign — of Iraq's national symbol over the decades from monarchy to ...