Thai court bans prime minister from politics for 5 years

Thailand's Constitutional Court Tuesday ordered Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat's People Power Party to dissolve and banned the premier from political office for five years, according to a Dow Jones Newswire report. The court took the action after finding the party was involved in electoral fraud in the December 2007 election. The newswires report cited a judge as saying that the decision had been unanimous among the Constitutional Court's nine judges