Thai Red Shirt Offers Ceasefire As Deadline Passes (ap)

Onlookers watch from an overhead bridge as smoke billows during a clash between anti-government protesters and Thai army in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 17, 2010. Thailand's Red Shirts offered peace talks Monday to end raging street battles in Bangkok as a government deadline demanding the demonstrators vacate a protest zone passed without capitulation. (AP Photo/ Manish Swarup)AP – The Thai government said Monday it would accept a cease-fire offer from a “Red Shirt” protest leader if their fighters end raging street battles and return to their main camp in central Bangkok, as the death toll from five days of violence rose to 37.

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