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Thailand’s wartime snap election

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Conducting operations along Cambodian border; historic political kingmaker

Thailand’s prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, has dissolved parliament barely three months into his term, triggering a snap election even as Thai troops trade artillery fire with Cambodia along an 800-kilometre border. At least 20 people are dead, hundreds wounded and more than half a million displaced in the worst fighting since July.

Updated Dec 12, 2025