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Coup? Not true!

Reality Check: Thailand’s army declares martial law, Bangui, Balkans floods latest, China/USA cyber-spy story, Bosnian Serb army leader Mladic starts defence at The Hague.

The Move "Is Not a Coup"

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Thai Army Chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha reacts after a press conference at the Army Club in Bangkok, Thailand, 20 May 2014

The Thai army declared martial law "to restore peace and order for people from all sides" via military TV. The crisis-gripped kingdom has seen months of anti-government protests that have left 28 people dead and hundreds wounded. Thailand's caretaker Prime Minister Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan has made a statement in response to the Thai military's latest move which it insists is not a coup.

Our Asia correspondent Tony Cheng gave us his impressions of these latest developments directly from Bangkok.

Back from Bangui

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A handout picture made available by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) shows refugees cooking food at a refugee camp in Bossangoa, Central African Republic.

The capital city of the war-torn Central African Republic, Bangui, offers surreal moments for those flying in and out of its airport. According to the peacekeepers, some 200.000 internally displaced people are in camps around Bangui and people walk across the airport's runways where they grow vegetables and herd cows. The farmers stop work when planes take off and land.

Marcus Bachmann, an MSF veteran, has just returned from the CAR with plenty of insight.

I Spy with my Cyber-Eye

This story has everything. A "WANTED" poster. Two mammoth super-powers squaring up to each other. Accusations of spying and counter-spying. Economic warfare! And the audacity to call out an entire nation on its hypocrisy and double-standards! Our Washington reporter Priscilla Huff takes a closer look at the current China/USA cyber-spying story.

Mladic starts his defence

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Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic in the court of the UN Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY), in The Hague

Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic launched the defence case in his long-running UN trial yesterday. Our Netherlands reporter Lauren Comiteau tells us more.

Austrian Police Force and Cameras

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A Metropolitan Police handout photograph made in London, Britain shows a police officer wearing a body camera.

Police in Britain do it and now there's a debate in Austria about whether officers should wear their service numbers and video cameras. Stuart Norton, the Director of The Institute of Professional Policing at Buckinghamshire New University, tells us about the pros and cons of police officers wearing ID numbers and video cameras.