President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia has offered his condolences to Poland over the death of President Kaczynski. He said Monday would be a day of mourning in Russia. The Prime Minister Vladmir Putin has traveled to the scene of the crash in Smolensk. In Washington, President Obama described the death as a devastating loss. The European Union expressed its solidarity with Poland and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was deeply shocked.
At least 15 people have been killed and hundreds more injured in the Thai capital Bangkok in some of the worst political violence there for nearly 20 years. Soldiers in riot gear clashed with red-shirted anti-government protesters as they tried to clear them from encampment in the capital. Quentin Sommerville reports from Bangkok.
Fierce fightings saw troops use rubber bullets and tear gas in an attempt to clear the red-shirts from one of their two encampments in the city. Protesters responded with petrol bombs, live rounds may also been fired. Soldiers and protesters are among the dead. A Japanese cameraman was also killed, said a spokesman for the city's BMA General Hospital. The country's army has now called for a truce, saying its troops are pulling back. An army spokesman says the red-shirts also to withdraw. Quentin Sommerville reporting.
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The leader of Kyrgyzstan's self-declared interim government Roza Otunbayeva has denied that Russia was involved in the unrest which drove the president Kurmanbek Bakiyev from the capital. Asked about the future of the US airbase in Kyrgyzstan, she said the country would keep to its commitments.