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Military leaders in Thailand have staged a coup, suspended the constitution and declared martial law. The army commander Sondhi Boonyaratkalin said the military leadership had formed a council for political reform and ousted the Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Mr. Thaksin cancelled a speech he was due to give at the UN General Assembly in New York and it's not clear whether he intends to return to Thailand. Jonathan Head reports from Bangkok.
It's now clear that a coup ordered by the top levels of the army has taken place in the Thai capital against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. A spokesman for the military has appeared on television, declaring martial law throughout the country and cancelling the state of emergency announced earlier by the prime minister from New York where he's attending the UN General Assembly. The spokesman said irreconcilable differences between Mr. Thaksin and his opponents had forced them to act. The coup leaders he insisted were acting in support of Thailand's revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Tellingly when announcing the abolition of the constitution and the dissolution of parliament, he said the influential privy council of senior aides to the King would still function. But he said the military would return power to the people as soon as possible.
The European Union has called for Thailand to restore democratic order as soon as possible. The Prime Minister of Finland which holds the rotating EU presidency, Matti Vanhanen, said the country needed to revert to democratic order without delay. But an opposition Senator in the Thai parliament, Mechai Viravaidya, welcomed the removal of Mr. Thaksin.
I would say that the majority of people in Bangkok are saying good riddance to Thaksin. I was elected to the Senate and we're all supposed to be independent. But he managed to get hold of about 120 people, put them on his pay roll. And we became no longer independent.
United Nations General Assembly has opened in New York with forceful calls for action in the Sudanese region of Darfur. President Bush said the credibility of the UN was at stake and announced the appointment of a special American envoy to help in the efforts. President Chirac of France echoed his call, warning that a catastrophe was being prepared in the region.
In Darfur, millions of people are in danger; a crime against humanity is in the making. Bloody unrest is once again on the point of rocking the very heart of Africa. France exhorts the international community to avert a new humanitarian catastrophe.
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A BBC investigation has uncovered what it says is evidence of serious and widespread corruption in English football. In a year-long investigation by the Panorama television programme, 18 past and present football managers in the Premier League were named to the BBC as corrupt by people who dealt directly with them. One of those named is the manager of Bolton Wanderers, Sam Allardyce, who was a leading contender for the job of managing England's national team earlier this year. Mr. Allardyce said he's never asked for or taken any illegal payment. The BBC investigation used secret recordings to interview several football agents. One former agent said that in his experience, illegal transfer payments were the norm across the premiership.
More than 10, 000 anti-government protestors have gathered in Hungary to renew their demands for the resignation of the Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany. The demonstration in central Budapest is reported to have been peaceful so far in stark contrast to Monday night, which left 150 people injured. Mr. Gyurcsany has been under growing pressure to stand down since the leak of a tape recording in which he admits lying to win re-election last April. Nick Thorpe reports from Budapest.
The latest demonstration outside the Hungarian parliament was bigger and better human than the last. Under the watchful eyes of riot police, many drafted in from the provinces to reinforce their colleagues in the capital, around 10, 000 people gathered to listen to speeches ridiculing the prime minister. His admission in a tape leaked on Sunday that he had consistently lied to the public in order to win a second term in office sparked the current crisis. The prime minister has defended his speech and claimed the moral high ground to speaking openly about the country's problems.
The Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has approved a request by the judiciary to replace the chief judge trying the ousted President Saddam Hussein on genocide charges. Officials in the prime minister's office told the BBC that the judge would be transferred to a higher judiciary council. It's not clear when a new judge will be appointed or what impact it will have on the trial proceedings in Baghdad. A senior prosecutor had earlier demanded that the judge step down, saying he was too lenient towards Saddam Hussein and the six co-defendants.
And that's the latest BBC world news.
Words and Expressions: martial law - Martial law is control of an area by soldiers, not the police. privy - If you are privy to something secret, you have been allowed to know about it. (FORMAL) good riddance - You say `good riddance' to indicate that you are pleased that someone has left or that something has gone. exhorts - If you exhort someone to do something, you try hard to persuade or encourage them to do it. (FORMAL) norm - Norms are ways of behaving that are considered normal in a particular society. drafted in - If people are drafted into a place, they are moved there to do a particular job. ridiculing - If you ridicule someone or ridicule their ideas or beliefs, you make fun of them in an unkind way.
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