May 20, 2014

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Thai soldiers take positions in Bangkok's shopping district as the Army declared martial law after six months of anti-government protests.

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Narendra Modi, the prime ministerial candidate for India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), bows at the steps of the parliament house on his arrival to attend the party meeting in New Delhi.

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Photojournalists run away from tear gas, fired by police in a bid to disperse rioting university students in Kenya's capital Nairobi. The students protested against higher fees and smaller student loan awards.

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Professor Adrian Lister looks at Lyuba, a baby woolly mammoth considered to be the most complete example of the species ever found, at the Natural History Museum in London, May 19, 2014. Lyuba - "love" in Russian - was discovered frozen in clay and mud in Siberia in 2007 and is estimated to have died around 42,000 years ago.