Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra released from prison

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Thailand's influential former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been released from prison, after about eight months behind bars following a court ruling that deemed he had wrongfully stayed in hospital to avoid jail time. The 76-year-old billionaire has remade and dominated Thai politics for a quarter-century, but his influence has waned of late following his jailing and his once formidable Pheu