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Thailand’s parliament on Tuesday voted for real estate tycoon Srettha Thavisin to be the country’s next prime minister, ending a political deadlock more than three months after elections delivered a landslide to progressive parties over pro-military groups. Srettha, 60, was the sole candidate put forward by the populist Pheu Thai Party and received 482 votes out of a possible 747 in Thailand’s bicameral parliament. His election comes the same day that Pheu Thai founder and divisive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra returned to the country after more than 15 years...

Thaksin Shinawatra, the billionaire and former prime minister of Thailand, finally returned to his home country on Tuesday, after more than a decade of living overseas in self-exile. His return, which had been widely anticipated, coincides with a scheduled vote the same day by Thailand’s parliament to select a new premier. Upon his arrival at Don Muang airport on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thaksin was greeted by hundreds of supporters and throngs of reporters. Thai police said earlier that the 74-year-old former leader would be formally arrested and taken directly...

Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra bowed in homage to the Thai king's portrait as he returned to the kingdom Tuesday after 15 years in exile.

Thaksin, 74, paid his respects to King Maha Vajiralongkorn and waved in greeting to hundreds of supporters gathered at Don Mueang airport before being led away by officials to be processed on multiple outstanding criminal cases.

BANGKOK — Thailand’s former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, has returned to the country after 17 years in self-exile, arriving in the capital, Bangkok, hours before the party he helped establish, Pheu Thai, is set to form a coalition government with members of the conservative military establishment who have led the charge to keep him and his family from power over the last two decades. Thaksin disembarked from a private jet at Don Mueang airport, where he was greeted by supporters in red shirts. The 74-year-old, who faces a raft of...

Back in 2008, the last time Thaksin Shinawatra stepped foot in Thailand, he was adored among the nation’s poorer masses and widely despised by the royalist elite who backed his removal in a coup two years earlier. On Tuesday, the former prime minister returned to Thailand after his political allies cut a deal with the same military-backed establishment that spent years overturning his party’s election victories through coups and court decisions. He bowed before a portrait of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn and then waved to hundreds of supporters at Bangkok’s...

Supporters gather at airport to welcome home former prime minister who was removed in a 2006 military coup. Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is on his way back to Thailand after nearly 17 years in exile. Thaksin boarded a private plane in Singapore and was on his way to Bangkok’s Don Mueang airport, his sister Yingluck Shinawatra, also a former prime minister, posted on Facebook on Tuesday. Thaksin, who made his fortune in the telecommunications business, is expected to arrive in Bangkok at about 9am (02:00 GMT) local time....

He is one of the most divisive figures in Thai history, a brash, politically-ambitious tycoon whose repeated successes in elections going back more than two decades provoked strong reactions from conservative forces - ranging from military coups, the occupations of government ministries and airports, to contentious court verdicts which have sacked three prime ministers and dissolved three pro-Thaksin political parties. Now he is on his way back, presumably after striking a quiet deal with his royalist adversaries to keep him out of prison. He has sentences of about 10 years...