The country's most prominent soothsayer, Pinyo Pongcharoen, recently urged the premier to carry out Buddhist rituals to ward off evil.

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Ms. CAROL LAM (Former U.S. Attorney): I'm neither a soothsayer nor a fortune teller, but I expect the Department of Justice will conduct itself as the department always has and as professionally and in the public's interest.

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Only a soothsayer can foretell what will happen in three years' time when the country is due to elect its next government.

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Investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme that he took a plastic doll to a soothsayer, saying it was a child with eating problems and physical disabilities.

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