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Queen’s cost to British taxpayers rises
The Queen’s cost to the taxpayer rose slightly during the last financial year, Buckingham Palace accounts showed on Monday. The monarch cost the public purse £32.3 million ($50.6 million, 40.0 million euros) in 2011-12, a rise of £200,000, or 0.6 percent, from the last financial year. The royal family’s travel…
Thai web editor to hear ‘royal insults’ verdict
BANGKOK — A Thai web editor is due Wednesday to hear whether she will be jailed for hosting defamatory postings about the monarchy on her website, amid a growing clamour for the law to be changed. The case has stirred fierce debate in Thailand, where strict laws against defaming the…
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