Former leader Thaksin back from exile as Thailand picks prime minister

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...