Thailand\\\'s ex-PM Yingluck given permission to leave country

Thailand's military rulers have given permission to former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to travel to Europe where she is expected to attend the birthday party of her brother Thaksin, also a deposed former premier, officers said on Thursday. A military spokesman said Yingluck, forced from office by a court ruling days before the military seized power in May, was permitted to leave provided she stayed out of politics. He said she would be allowed back into Thailand at the end of her trip. ‘Yingluck has not done anything that violates our orders so her personal trip to Europe has been approved,’ said army spokesman Colonel Winthai Suvaree, according to Reuters.